Author: The Ukrainian Weekly

Speaking with the Associated Press aboard a train that took the Ukrainian president from the eastern Ukrainian town of Sumy to the capital, Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine must win the battle for Bakhmut. If Russian President Vladimir Putin wins the battle, he will “sell this victory to the West, to his society, to China,...

Last year, on April 7, 2022, as Russian forces retreated to regroup in Belarus before launching an assault on Ukraine’s Donbas region and southern Ukraine, evidence of what was being described as war crimes and genocide began to emerge from liberated suburbs in the northwest of Kyiv in Bucha, Irpin and Borodyanka. Mark Raczkiewycz, a...

Ukraine condemns IOC recommendations The Ukrainian Ministry of Youth and Sports has condemned what it called the “partial change of position” of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in international sports competitions. The ministry statement on March 29 came a day after the executive board of the IOC...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is now a man wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued a warrant for his arrest on March 17. In issuing its warrant, the ICC accused Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the children’s rights commissioner for the president of the Russian Federation, of being responsible for illegally deporting Ukrainian children...

Last year, on March 23, 2022, the U.S. State Department released a statement attributed to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who underscored that there was sufficient evidence to charge Russia with war crimes in Ukraine. “Since launching his unprovoked and unjust war of choice, Russian President Vladimir Putin has unleashed unrelenting violence that has...

Japanese prime minister visits Kyiv Russia’s sustained offensive in the eastern Donetsk region intensified, the Ukrainian military said on March 21, as Japan’s prime minister met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv in a show of support that coincided with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskiy,...

On March 10, Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy issued an eviction notice to the current occupants of the centuries-old Monastery of the Caves, also known as the Pecherska Lavra. The move was widely seen as an effort by Kyiv to rightly reclaim its historical, religious and spiritual heritage. The Pecherska Lavra, which is...

Twenty-four years ago, on March 21, 1999, The Ukrainian Weekly’s editorial hailed the admission of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO Secretary General Javier Solana wrote in The Economist on March 13, “As a geopolitical landmark, its significance can hardly be overstated. … It means that in...

Drone intercept was intentional U.S. military officials said on March 15 that the intercept of a U.S. spy drone over the Black Sea by Russian fighter jets was intentional and part of a pattern of “aggressive and unsafe” actions by Russian pilots in international airspace as Washington and Moscow ratcheted up their rhetoric over the...

The world should know the name Oleksandr Matsievsky, who was a man of remarkable courage and a man of his word. During his last conversation with his mother on December 29, 2022, he said he “would never be taken prisoner” by the Russians. On March 6, a video initially disseminated by Russian military bloggers went...

Nine years ago, on March 16, 2014, The Ukrainian Weekly published a fact sheet that was released by the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesperson, on March 5. The statement began: “As Russia spins a false narrative to justify its illegal actions in Ukraine, the world has not seen such startling Russian fiction...

U.S. attorney general visits Ukraine U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland made a surprise visit to Ukraine to attend an international conference on justice in Lviv, where he restated Washington’s commitment to “hold Russia responsible” for crimes committed during Moscow’s full-scale military invasion of the country. “The attorney general held several meetings and reaffirmed our determination...