Sergii Starushko

In October and November 2024, the Center of Journalist Investigations (the CJI) detected several dry cargo ships in the port of occupied Mariupol. They have not been found out there earlier. They carried out grain, kaolin \ white clay, coal and iron ore. We identified four ships – earlier identified ships as well as new…

The Center for Journalist Investigations (CJI) describes how Western sanctions impact Ukrainian ports in the Sea of Azov, occupied by the Russian Federation; identifies new Russian pirate ships stealing Ukrainian grain; and uncovers sea and railways military logistics of Russia in occupied Southern Ukraine. 

Last satellite data indicate that the Russian Federation keeps expanding railway network on temporary occupied territories of Ukraine, in order to improve its military logistics. Last month these works accelerated 40 kilometers to the south of Donetsk. Construction of railway line between Mariupol and Berdyansk has also advanced. 

По всей линии столкновения на юге и востоке, а также приграничных с Россией и Беларусью регионах, Украина с 2024 года усиленно строит инженерно-фортификационные сооружения. Правительство с начала года выделило на линии обороны рекордные 20 млрд гривен, из которых 1,3 млрд – на укрепления в Запорожской области. Центр журналистских расследований рассказывал, что свободная часть Запорожчины в…

Former head of Ukrainian police in Berdyansk Vitalii Brovko left the service in law enforcement bodies after the beginning of Russian full scale invasion and occupation of the city. In May 2023, he has been appointed as the director of state owned enterprise «Horses of Ukraine». His public asset declaration revealed a number of luxury…

In November and at the beginning of December, ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol stayed idle only for a few days shaken by the storm, Putin’s pirate fleet resumed the transportation of stolen Ukrainian grain and other products during the first week of winter. It is obvious that Russian occupants will keep looting Ukraine during winter,…

The Crimean Federal University, set up by Russian occupants on the basis of stolen Ukrainian Tavriisky National University named after Vernadsky, launched school for training civilian and Russian military operators of kamikaze drones.  The Center for Journalist Investigations identified all persons involved in training Russian military operators of drones. 

Since the beginning of the Russian full scale invasion into Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have regularly turned occupied South of Ukraine into its military base and used civilians as “human shield”.  Russian occupants use illegally “expropriated” private houses, apartments, resort complexes and hotels as their military barracks and hospitals. Ukrainian factories are exploited to…

Valerii Gerasimov, the First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and Chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, appeared in public outside Russia for the first time after «Prigozhyn’s plot». Russian propagandists and Ukrainian media reported on August 1, 2023 that Gerasimov visited the forward command center of the Russian occupation…

It is easy to avoid Western sanctions if you use countries as intermediaries. The team of the Center for Journalist Investigations uncovered a network of companies in the third countries behind Simferopol manufacturer of drones founded by Ukrainian citizens-collaborators. It is about Crimean limited liability company «Roboavia». It develops and manufactures «flying wing» drones and…