A cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe in late September likely originated from a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan, the French nuclear safety institute IRSN said, according to RFE/RL.
Instead of Russian salaries and pensions, of which crowds dreamed on the squares in 2014, the residents of the so-called "DPR" (self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic) now receive handouts that do not match the size of even those payments they had received before the war, journalist Denis Kazansky wrote on his website.