Author: Andrew Nynka

WALTHAM, Mass. – The House of Representatives on April 28 passed legislation to establish a lend-lease program that would make it easier for the U.S. to send more military aid to Ukraine.  The bill is now headed to the White House, where President Joe Biden is expected to sign the measure into law. The bill,...

WALTHAM, Mass. – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visibly frustrated and angry with NATO’s response to repeated entreaties to close the skies over Ukrainian territory, slammed NATO for not having the courage to impose a no-fly zone over his country. The Ukrainian president’s castigation came after NATO member countries met in Brussels on March 4 to discuss...

WALTHAM, Mass. – Speaking before a joint session of Congress, U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin had “unleashed violence and chaos” against Ukraine and promised the Russian president would “pay a continuing high price” for his premeditated and unprovoked war against the Ukrainian people. “Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Reiterating the U.S. position that the United States and its allies would respond “swiftly and severely” to further Russian aggression against Ukraine, Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the UN Jeff Prescott on February 15 also urged Americans to leave Ukraine immediately. But Mr. Prescott also repeatedly stressed that the U.S., as well as...

The following is a full transcript of an interview conducted with Jeffrey Prescott, deputy to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on the current Ukraine-Russia crisis. The interview took place on February 15 and was conducted by Andrew Nynka, editor-in-chief of The Ukrainian Weekly, and Zachary Dmyterko, a Washington-based correspondent for The Ukrainian Weekly....