While the mandatory evacuation continues in the Donetsk region and transit hubs in neighboring oblasts are suffocating from a lack of capacity, the frontline cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk have turned into a filming location for a multi-part PR show. Under the banners of the public organization "VPO Ukraine," led by Member of Parliament Maksym Tkachenko, and the "Kryla Donbasu" (Wings of Donbas) charity fund managed by Oleksiy Bakhtin, a large-scale campaign has been launched to simulate rescues and collect donations onto private bank cards.

Official responses from state agencies and register analysis have completely shattered the facade of this "humanitarian mission".

The Customs Phantom and the Scrapped Mitsubishi

ГАРЯЧІ НОВИНИ
Sep 15, 2026, 7:20:42 PM

A distinct bureaucratic caste has emerged in the Ukrainian rear—one operating under the assumption that displaced person status and articulate punctuation on Facebook can override the Criminal Procedure Code. No sooner had the doors of the pretrial detention facility closed behind the Director of the Information Policy Department of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, Albina Kusheleva, and investigative reports detailing 80% postal kickbacks inside Nova Poshta courier boxes were filed, than the official appealed to the public. Her response came not in the form of financial audits, but as public lamentations regarding her "trampled honor and dignity".

The sharpest repudiation of this public victimhood came neither from political rivals nor from the "bots" she publicly blames, but directly from the zero line—from soldiers for whom their native Luhansk region has long since been reduced to artillery targeting coordinates.

Two Dimensions of Pain: A Comrade’s Phantom Limb vs. "Wounded Standing"

Стулов Сергій Sep 12, 2026, 11:24:43 AM

While political circles and social media debate the resignation of Oleksiy Kharchenko, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration (OVA), and scrutinize potential successors, an interconnected financial and criminal crisis has unfolded in Dnipro — the de facto operating hub of the displaced regional government. On September 5, a court remanded Albina Kusheleva, Director of the OVA’s Mass Communications Department, into custody over the embezzlement of 5 million UAH through PR procurement tenders. Just one business day later, a displaced municipal utility enterprise from occupied Sievierodonetsk — possessing neither managed assets nor ongoing litigation — bypassed public bidding to award a 160,000 UAH contract to a Kharkiv-based law firm co-founded by a former local prosecutor.

Displaced Communities, Real Millions