INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE ANTI-FASCIST SOLIDARITY

Moscow has scrupulously observed the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners, while the government of Ukraine has tortured, starved and deprived of medical care the Russian soldiers in its captivity, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Wednesday. The West’s unwillingness to hold Kiev accountable has resulted in violations and outright crimes, Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin told reporters.      Russia has taken “painstaking” steps to observe the Geneva Convention on the treatment of POWs, among them holding more than 40 weekly meetings with representatives of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and establishing a medical commission on seriously ill and injured prisoners. So far, 18 such prisoners have been sent back to Ukraine, General Fomin said.      There have also been 27 exchanges of POWs and the bodies of dead servicemen, while the ICRC has received more than 1,500 letters home from the Ukrainian prisoners. Detained Ukrainian soldie

 All signs on the ground point to a Ukrainian attack There is every reason to believe that the July 29 bombing of a detention centre holding Ukrainian POWs was carried out on Kiev’s orders by Eva Bartlett It was extremely difficult to witness the charred and twisted remains of Ukrainian POWs in the Yelenovka detention centre at first hand. The stench of death was overwhelming. Bodies remained in the ruins and melted into the metal bunk beds they were on at the time of the bombing.      Other corpses, presumably killed by shrapnel instead of burning to death, lay outside. A soldier was inspecting them, presumably in order to determine the exact cause, and the victims’ identities. Even if the Ukrainian side killed its own soldiers, it was the Russians who took care to identify the remains.      The next morning, I went around Donetsk to document the extremely dangerous “petal” mines Ukraine has dropped on the city. According to DPR Emergency Services, eight civilians had been killed by t

 Kiev’s crimes against the Donbas By Vladislav Ugolny The Ukrainian regime has long treated the people of the Donbas as sub-humans. The military conflict in Ukraine that began on 24th February was preceded by a much older conflict. Over the course of eight years, it claimed the lives of at least 14,200 people, over 37,000 were wounded, hundreds of thousands became refugees or had their homes destroyed. A de-escalation was achieved in February 2015, as both sides realised that a bad peace was better than a good war and attempted to find a political resolution on the basis of the Minsk agreements. That, however, failed to bring peace to Donbas, which instead faced eight long years of economic and legal blockade, compounded by chaotic shelling of areas near the front-lines.      They were eight hard years, which involved rebuilding bombed schools, hospitals and houses, a rather humiliating dependence of formerly well-to-do people on humanitarian aid, an economic slump due to the economic

 by Dr. Leon Tressell The philosopher and darling of the Western intelligentsia, Professor Slavoj Zizek, recently wrote an article for the Guardian on Ukraine. Professor Zizek, uses the platform provided by the Guardian , to launch an attack on anyone on the Left who dares to question the American narrative regarding Ukraine.      In this article Zizek declares that the wrong response to the war is pacifism and that all Leftists should uncritically support Ukraine. It gets better. He also declares that we need a stronger NATO to counter those evil Russian hordes which threaten Western democracy. This ignores its history of bloody interventions in countries such as Libya and Afghanistan. Never mind the fact that NATO, since its inception, has been an offensive military alliance geared for war against Russia.      In his article, which is typical of Guardian pieces on the subject of Ukraine, Zizek supports the rampant Russophobia of the Western imperialist states. This Russophobia is ra

Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Luxembourg The war in Ukraine, which is increasingly becoming a proxy war of the US and NATO against Russia, has increased the danger of a new world war and the use of nuclear weapons. This war did not start only since Russia's intervention on February 24, 2022, but has been raging since 2014, when the Kiev regime – coming to political power through the "Maidan coup" orchestrated by Ukrainian fascists, the US, the EU and NATO – started a war called "anti-terrorist action" against its own population in the Donbass. Already 15,000 people have died in this war.      A brief willingness by the Ukrainian leadership to negotiate terms with Russia to end the war was quashed within hours in early March at the instigation of the United States and the West. Instead of using the tried and tested means of diplomacy to seek a solution to end the war, some 30 Western states, including Luxembourg, are steadily supply

Our case is completely fabricated from start to finish The trial of Mikhail and Alexander Kononovich began in the Solomensky District Court of Kiev on July 1st, without the physical presence of the defenders but via teleconference. Under the pretext of false and groundless accusations, the two brothers, members of the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine were arrested on 7th March 2022 and tortured in a Kiev detention centre. Since then, numerous Communist Parties and Youth organisations from all over the world, including the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) have demanded their immediate release. The EU Parliament Group of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has already submitted two written questions (first and second) to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs concerning the case of Kononovich brothers. In their first speech to the courtroom, Mikhail and Alexander talked about the fabricated nature of the accusations, expressed appreciation for the internation

by Ceyda Karan As Russia's special operation in Ukraine continues, life is returning to normal in areas under the control of Russian and Donbass forces. Sputnik correspondent Ceyda Karan shares her impression of the situation from the scene.      I went to Donbass to see the results on the ground of the Special Military Operation in the region, something that is in many ways considered to be a turning point for Russia.      The military operation brought the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics, which broke away from the central government after the 2014 coup in Kiev, the constitutional borders they had been waiting eight years for.      In 2018, I had the chance to visit the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, but at the time they only controlled parts of their constitutional borders. This time I am observing the development of events in Donbass under different circumstances, against the backdrop of Russia's special military operation.      During my trip here in