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TORONTO – In mid-September, Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij traveled on working visits to Washington, where he met…...
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75th anniversary of UPA is marked Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists marched through Kyiv on October 14 to mark the 75th…...
BOSTON – Almost 100 music lovers turned out on Friday evening, September 15, for a special musical program in the…...
TORONTO – Official commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) will conclude with a two-day program…...
KYIV – Ukraine last week took a legislative step closer to reflect the fact that Russia is waging war against this nation of 42.5 million people – an unprovoked invasion that saw Crimea annexed and 3 percent of the easternmost Donbas region occupied by Kremlin-led forces nearly four years ago.
On October 6, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law in the first of two readings that names Russia as an aggressor state pursuant to international conventions and enables the armed forces to better defend the nation’s sovereign territory.
OTTAWA – Team Ukraine took home 14 medals from its inaugural participation in the Invictus Games in Toronto. But the athletes, who competed in athletics, power lifting, swimming, archery, cycling and indoor rowing, reached the top of the podium in terms of the support and admiration they received from within and outside the Ukrainian Canadian community.
OTTAWA – Canada’s long-awaited Magnitsky bill passed unanimously in the House of Commons on October 4 and is expected to receive the same endorsement in the Senate and become law six years after the idea behind it was first introduced in the House by a former Liberal Canadian justice minister and long-time human rights lawyer.
On September 20, the Kharkiv City Council sent an appeal, addressed to Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, regarding concerns over…...
… let us be frank with each other and with ourselves. The aim of the Russian aggression is to destroy democracy, liberal freedoms and human rights. In one place they do this with tanks. In other places – with the help of fake news. ...
It is only upon the respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine that we can achieve peace and stability in Europe. Ukraine strives for peace as, I believe, everyone does in this hall. I, as the head of state, want peace for Ukraine and Europe. And these are not mere words.
On numerous occasions, Ukraine proved its readiness for peaceful settlement of the situation that was artificially created by Russia. Only in 2017 Ukraine has initiated long-lasting ceasefires for three times – Easter, harvest and back-to-school ceasefires. Russian occupation troops and their proxies violated them all almost straightaway. …
I call on the honorable assembly to continue to pay attention to the issue of respect of human rights in the occupied Crimea and Donbas. ...
Ukraine… has to fight a two-front war at the same time. On the front of countering external military aggression, restoration of sovereignty and territorial integrity. And on the front of implementing difficult and complex reforms. ...
It is very symbolic that on the margins of my visit to Strasbourg I will inaugurate the Star for the Heavenly Hundred at the Strasbourg Alley of the Stars. ...By opening the Star for the Heavenly Hundred, we will commemorate their contribution to the history of Ukraine and to the history of Europe. It is our common duty, as regards their memory and sacrifice, to win on both fronts in Ukraine and to strengthen the common values in Europe.
President Petro Poroshenko, addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on October 11 (excerpt from the full text provided by the Presidential Administration of Ukraine).
Veteran career diplomat Ambassador John Tefft, 68, who was pulled out of retirement to man the United States’ Moscow mission…...
“The worst thing we can do to the people of Crimea is to leave them in isolation from the broader…...
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