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Ukrainian farmers have been stealing tanks and other Russian military equipment with their tractors. Videos have surfaced online in recent weeks, and the question many have asked is what happens with all the captured war machines? It just so happens that the Ukrainian parliament (also known as Rada) passed a new measure rewarding anyone, even Russian soldiers, to turn over equipment to Ukraine for a reward. “For a helicopter – 500 thousand dollars, a tank – 100 thousand, respectively. If, for example, someone is ready to come to us by plane – it’s a million dollars,” the first vice-speaker of...

Ukraine has restarted a military offensive in the eastern part of the country after two brutally beaten bodies were discovered in the Donetsk region — one is thought to be a local politician. Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov said the politician’s name is Vladimir Rybak, reports the BBC. “The terrorists who effectively took the whole Donetsk region hostage have now gone too far,” the BBC reported Turchynov saying. Two “brutally tortured individuals” have been found near Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region where pro-Russian separatists have been strategically taking over key government buildings, Turchynov said in a statement reported by...

Ukraine update: you and the rest of the English-speaking world probably know that Yanukovych cooked his own goose by fleeing the city yesterday (was it the regular guy who grabbed the mic onstage and gave him till 10 AM to leave or face the armed storming of his residence that sent him running?) and got himself impeached by the Rada he used to bully into passing all his laws. You probably saw that his obscene luxury estate was hilariously opened to the public and contained everything from an extravagant car collection to a Spanish galleon boat, and you likely know...