Fragile truce: Prisoners of war are returned to the Donetsk People's Republic following a prisoner exchange with Ukrainian authorities, but Kiev has since renewed its attacks on the separatist territory
THOUSANDS are without water in the Donetsk region of Ukraine as the Kiev government’s armed forces continue to breach a 2016 ceasefire agreement despite the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) warned of an unfolding humanitarian crisis with the water supply for at least 1,500 people in Elenkova and Molodyezhoyne cut off after Ukrainian shellfire damaged pipes.
It said that such actions were war crimes and an attempted genocide being waged by the Ukrainian armed forces.
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
