Author: The Ukrainian Weekly

The following is the full text of the speech given by Ukrainian National Foundation President Roman Hirniak at the gala dinner on July 14 during the Soyuzivka Ukrainian Festival that was held at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, N.Y., on July 14-16. It seems that the father of a bright young son went to a wise friend for advice as to what profession the youth would be fit for.  The sage was brusque.  “Let the boy choose for himself,” he said.  “But,” protested the father, “he’s too young.”  “Well,” responded the wise man, “put him in a room alone with…

$400 million in military aid for Ukraine The United States has announced an additional $400 million security package for Ukraine, including air defense munitions, armored vehicles, anti-armor weapons and other “critical military assistance” from Defense Department stockpiles to help it retake territory and defend against Russian missile strikes. The Pentagon announced the package on July...

Kyiv, the heart of Ukraine, has witnessed its fair share of glorious and tumultuous historic moments. The nation’s capital stands as a testament to Ukraine’s strength and resilience. Its history dates back more than 1,000 years, and it must sting Russian President Vladimir Putin to know deep down in his bones – despite his propaganda...

Fifteen years ago, on July 25-27, 2008, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople made a historic visit to Ukraine to mark the 1,020-year anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan-Rus’. It was the first time since the hetmanate of Bohdan Khmelnytsky that the Ecumenical Patriarch had visited Kyiv. The visit by Patriarch Bartholomew was seen as...

Prigozhin appears in video after mutiny Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led the Russian private Wagner mercenary group’s aborted mutiny last month, has appeared in a video purportedly filmed in Belarus welcoming his fighters and saying they would be headed to Africa as the company was halting its involvement in Russia’s war with Ukraine for the foreseeable...

Nine years ago, on July 17, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 – a Boeing 777 with 280 passengers and 15 crew aboard – was shot down over Ukraine, some 35 miles from the border with Russia. The commercial airliner was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when it was shot down over Ukraine. Ukraine’s...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) concluded its most recent summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, without granting Ukraine what it really wanted – an invitation to membership in the defensive alliance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy first expressed disappointment that the alliance’s declaration after the summit said NATO would extend an invitation to Ukraine only after “members...

Kuleba says Ukraine’s NATO path shorter Despite failing to receive a detailed plan or timeline to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba says the military alliance’s members have made the country’s path to joining the alliance “shorter” and “absolutely irreversible” at a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Speaking to...

Winston Churchill once said, “You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.” A video cartoon posted on LinkedIn makes the same argument but it uses instead a shark to creatively and convincingly counter an argument being made that Kyiv’s allies should stop providing military aid to Ukraine and instead push...

Last year, on July 13, 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement that accused Russia of forcibly deporting hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from areas that Russian forces controlled in the east and south of Ukraine to Russia. An estimated 900,000 to 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including 260,000 children, had been interrogated,...

Man dies after explosion inside Kyiv court A man who detonated an explosive device on July 5 inside a district court in Kyiv was killed by the explosion and two members of a rapid-response security unit were injured, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. Mr. Klymenko confirmed that the man was Ihor Humenyuk, who had been...

On June 23, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, took his band of private mercenaries on a rebellious march toward Moscow. On the way, the group of heavily-armed thugs first took over the headquarters of Russia’s southern military district in Rostov-on-Dov with seemingly very little resistance from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military or...