Donetsk
If the leaked abuse videos and panicked pleas from soldiers are any indication, Russian efforts to integrate with Donetsk do not seem to be going well.
An appeal by British authorities over the execution in occupied Donetsk was shrugged off by Russia as too “preachy.”
The show trial against British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, as well as Moroccan citizen Ibrahim Saadun, was rushed through by Russian proxies in less than three days.
“They just toss them there. And then later it’s easier to make as if they disappeared without a trace.”
Expendable conscripts from the Donbas used to draw fire and reveal Ukrainian positions, report says.
Dutch investigators release damning audio that connects Russian authorities to the rebels suspected in the 2014 shootdown of a Malaysian jet with 298 people on board in Ukraine.
One Ukrainian national and three Russians who’d worked for the GRU or FSB were charged with murder over the 2014 downing of the 777 over Ukraine, killing all 298 on board.