Author: Askold Krushelnycky

NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine – It was always unlikely that Ukraine was going to get a timetable on membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) following the alliance’s summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11 to 12, but Kyiv’s disappointment is nonetheless understandable. The alliance, however, reaffirmed its commitment to support Ukraine on the battlefield...

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IZIUM, Ukraine – A dreadful, gruesome smell of death now hovers here. It clings to clothes for days. Even after leaving the city, the memory of it lingers for days and haunts the imagination. At a forest clearing near the edge of this city, that unmistakable smell foretold the dead found buried in graves in...

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KYIV – Russia is furious that U.S. President Joe Biden is sending a powerful multiple launch rocket system to Ukraine that many believe will be a game-changer in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region where the bloodiest battles in Europe since World War II have been raging. Russia’s massive advantage in artillery has given it an enormous...

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MYKOLAIV, Ukraine – Kateryna Pypsha’s words faltered and she started to cry as she heard the news on April 5 that her village was close to falling into Russian hands. “We’ve all seen the murders and rapes the Russians have been doing in the places they occupy,” Ms. Pypsha said. “We are terrified for our...

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MYKOLAIV, Ukraine – Barely able to suppress her tears, Tetyana Khayitova pleaded: “Please tell me that miracles are sometimes possible.” On April 1, Ms. Khayitova, her daughter Valeria and her sister-in-law Irena Khayitova were on the fourth day of a dreadful vigil near the ruins of the main administration building of Ukraine’s port city of...

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VOZNESENSK, Ukraine – A Russian missile strike early on the morning of March 29 which demolished much of the main administration building for the Mykolaiv region, killing three people, signaled the start of Moscow’s attempt to finally capture the port city that has been a priority target since the first day of the war. The...

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MYKOLAIV, Ukraine – Every day and hour that passes in which Ukrainians hold out against the Russian invasion of their country, more pressure is applied on Western leaders to provide additional military aid to Ukraine. Moreover, with each atrocity committed by the Russian military – such as the destruction of a maternity hospital in Mariupol,...

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MYKOLAIV, Ukraine – The Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv is being reinforced for an expected renewed onslaught by Russian forces, which have so far been frustrated in their plans to seize the city that is seen as a key to their ambitions to control Ukraine’s coastline. The region’s governor, Vitaliy Kim, whose inspiring leadership has made...

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LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine – With the number of escape routes out of Ukraine severely limited and with bombs hitting various civilian locations, refugees fleeing the country have faced increasingly horrific and dangerous conditions as Russia’s unprovoked and premeditated war moved into its third week. Most of the refugees have heading westward with the city of Lviv...

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LVIV – This week ominous indications mounted here that a Russian attack on Ukraine was coming as the Kremlin sought to stage the very type of fake attacks against ethnic Russians that U.S. and U.K. intelligence predicted would be used to justify a pretext to launch a new invasion of Ukraine. While Ukrainians were apprehensive,...

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KHARKIV, Ukraine – Kharkiv, one of Ukraine’s most important industrial and cultural centers, is only 25 miles from the Russian border and everyone here knows their city is a top target if Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin orders an invasion. Politicians, patriotic groups, pro-western community activists and even Ukrainian language teachers were not surprised to learn...

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KHARKIV, Ukraine – Kharkiv, one of Ukraine’s most important industrial and cultural centers, is only 25 miles from the Russian border and everyone here knows their city is a top target if Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin orders an invasion. Politicians, patriotic groups, pro-western community activists and even Ukrainian language teachers were not surprised to learn...

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