We have direct contacts in Donetsk. We reported previously that Russians were seen there weeks ago. However, there have now been gun battles in Sloviansk, and the Pro-Russian activists/mercenaries have taken government buildings in  Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka as well while there are reports of similar activity in the cities – Mariupol and Yenakievo. Nevertheless,in Sloviansk and […]

  The crisis in Eastern Ukraine appears to be a Russian invasion albeit covertly precisely the same way it was first done in Crimea. On April 12th, the realization that the Russian Federation has actually invaded Ukraine began to be realized and the National Security and Defense Council was urgently convened. The Minister of Internal Affairs […]

Ukraine ended the pro-Russia occupation of administration buildings but armed protesters hold out in other cities. They are armed and this seems to be creating a situation where Russia can argue they are needed to protect Russian living there. There is no doubt that Russia will eventually seize Ukraine but just how will be more […]

Putin has now more openly beefed-up Syria after Crimea. The West cannot stop Russia and he knows that. Stopping the pipeline through Syria is economically vital to retain Russia’s hold on Europe and the US will start to send gas to Europe in 2015. Syria is all about energy to help Europe – it has […]

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) announced on Thursday that a $14 to $18 billion “bailout” for Ukraine is contingent on Kiev’s imposition of stringent austerity measures. It is amazing that not even Obama would comply with such austerity. These people have no clue as to how to run a nation and their theories are more-likely-than-not […]

There are two converging trends emerging that are starting people to line up to take their money out of banks in Ukraine. In the South, it is the treat of war, and in the West, some fear that the IMF cannot be trusted and as such will expropriate their money as the IMF did in Cyprus. […]

Aeroflot and S7, the Russian airlines, have both changed their air routes to avoid Ukraine’s air space. This is a sign that they are clearly expecting tensions to rise and we may yet see a direct confrontation with Russia. Models still point to last weeks of March for some wild trading periods ahead.

  Ukraine is perhaps the most misunderstood country as well as the most overlooked. The history of Ukraine goes far back to the Greeks that founded most of the main cities in the South. Kerkinitis was perhaps the first Greek outpost and Chersonesos in the Crimea was a vibrant city. What is not taken into […]

About 1500 BC nomadic tribes appeared on the territory of Ukraine. One of them was the Cimmerians (9th-8th–century BC), which are mentioned in written sources. Scythians, Iranian-speaking people from Central Asia, in the 7th century BC pushed the Cimmerians from the Ukrainian steppes. Around the same period, the Greeks began to establish the first colonies […]

The care-taker leaders are the typical bureaucrats who will destroy Ukraine and everything the people have fought for. Oleksandr Vіktorovich Shlapak (Олександр Віталійович Шлапак) is the Ukrainian politician, bureaucrat, and the current Minister of Finance in Ukraine since February 27th. He offers NOTHING worthwhile for Ukraine and only thinks inside the BOX listening to economists with […]