Pokrovsk Coal Group (PCG), the largest coking coal producer in Ukraine, supplies production facilities belonging to Metinvest, an international steel and mining group. The company has a contingency plan in place should the city of Pokrovsk and the surr…
The Russians began to open branches of the largest state-owned banks in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
Source: Financial Times
Details: Previously, huge Russian shops, banks, and other businesses were hesitant to openly operate in the Crimean Pen…
Ukraine and Russia conducted a prisoner-of-war swap on 14 September, the third prisoner-of-war exchange since the start of the Ukrainian operation in Kursk Oblast, which appears to have had the short-term effect of increasing incentives for Russia to p…
The vast majority of people released as part of the prisoner-of-war (POW) swap on Saturday, 14 September, had been held in Russian captivity since the early days of the full-scale war.
Source: Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets on Tele…
Ukraine brought back 103 soldiers from Russian captivity on 14 September.
Source: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram; Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Details: The president said that the group incl…
Ukraine has returned 49 POWs from Russian captivity, including for the first time in a long time, the defenders of Azovstal.
The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported on this.
Among the rescued servicemen are 23 soldi…
Ukraine has brought back 49 more military and civilians from Russian captivity, including 23 women for the first time in a long time.
Source: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on social media; Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War…
Russian forces claimed the lives of five people in Donetsk Oblast on 7 September, in particular three in the city of Kostiantynivka and one each in the settlements of Petrivka and Shcherbynivka.
Source: Donetsk Oblast Military Administration
Details: A…
A documentary by Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova called Russians at War was screened at the Venice International Film Festival on Thursday, 5 September, Reuters reports.
The documentary filmmaker spent seven months with a Russian battalio…
Michael Clarke, visiting professor in defence studies at King’s College London, has forecast that Russian troops could capture the whole of Donetsk Oblast and threaten the Dnipropetrovsk region in the spring of 2025.
Source: an article by Clarke in Bri…