#UKR News Links

Here are some links to (generally) English-language sources you might find handy to help keep track of what’s going on.  A reminder:  the Ukrainian/Russian/first language versions of the pages tend to get updated before the English pages – time lags may vary.  If I’ve missed any good sources, please leave a comment, or email me (news (at) milnews.ca) and I’ll add them as soon as I can.

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Official Canadian Sources

• Operation UNIFIER (CAF military training and capacity-building operation in Ukraine)
• Operation REASSURANCE (Canadian Forces Eastern/Central Europe operation page)
• Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade & Development Ukraine page

Ukraine

• NSDC Information Analysis Centre:  English – Ukrainian – Russian (daily updates, including maps)
• Defence Intelligence of Ukraine:  English – Ukrainian (detailed daily updates under “Situation in ATO area”/“Обстановка в районі проведення АТО”, but NOT archived, so needs to be checked daily)
• Ukrainian Ministry of Defence:  English – Ukrainian
• State Border Guard Service of Ukraine:  English – Ukrainian
• Security Service of Ukraine:  English – Ukrainian (NOTE:  English link URL is correct, but only shows the Ukrainian version for now)
• Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (Ministry of the Interior):  English – Ukrainian
• National Guard of Ukraine:  English – Ukrainian – Russian
• Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:  Ukrainian – Official English – Google English translation of Ukrainian page
• National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine:  English (updated infreqently) – Ukrainian
• Ukrainian Government Portal:  English – Ukrainian – Russian

Russia

• Russian Ministry of Defence:  Russian – News (Russian) – News (Google English) – News (Official English translation – won’t always include all the stories seen in the Russian feed)
• Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:  Russian – Official English (Google Translate doesn’t work with the main page, but works on individual statements) – MFA Twitter feed

Media:  General & Social

• Google News:  Ukraine
• Google News:  Russia
• European Media Monitor:  Ukraine
• European Media Monitor:  Russia
• Radio Svoboda (RFE/RL Ukrainian Service, in Ukrainian)
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (U.S. gov’t funded):  Ukraine news – Russia news
• PANA Press (Russia)
• MILNEWS.ca Twitter List:  Ukraine Unrest

Media:  Ukrainian

• Ukraine:  Newspapers and News Media (ABYZ News Links)
• Interfax-Ukraine
• Ukrinform
• UNIAN news
• Ukrainian National News (in Ukrainian) – Russian version
• First Channel (state-run radio):  English – Ukrainian
• elpua.info  (reposts news in Ukrainian and Russian from other sources;  also raises funds for the Ukrainian military – last update 2016)

Media:  Russian

• Russia:  Newspaper & News Media Guide (ABYZ News Links)
• ITAR-TASS – ITAR-TASS UKR page – Crimea & Sevastapol page
• Sputnik News (used to be RIA-Novosti – old RIA link redirects here)
• RIA-Novosti Sputnik News-Military & Intelligence – Search “Ukraine” results
• English pravda.ru

Separatist Sources

• Novorossia News Agency (English) – Russian
• Lugansk Information Centre:  News (in Russian) – English version
• Official site, National Council of Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) (in Russian) – English version
• DNR Armed Forces/Defence Corps (vkontakte, similar to Facebook – in Russian – latest post Nov 2017)
• Slavyangrad.org (last visible post in English May 2018)
• http://kot-ivanov.livejournal.com/ (last updated map 2016)
• http://dragon-first-1.livejournal.com/ (last update 2016)

Blogs/Other Links

• civicomonitoring.org (German-based periodic summary of news/open source information from/about occupied areas)
• Lugansk News (pro-Ukrainian, in English – last visible post Oct 2016)
• The Interpreter (via the Institute for Modern Russia) (no new posts since Nov 2018?)
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty live blog (shows rolling history during invasion of Crimea to end of March 2014)
• Spread an Idea blog list of sources with affiliations (saved archive.org version – caveat emptor re:  recency of links)
• Commenter dittrichlj’s list of various ATO maps available

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