Author: Mark Raczkiewycz

CHICAGO – The U.S.’s second-largest concentrated population of Ukrainians held a second rally on the 18th day of Russia’s invasion of their homeland with dual demands for a no-fly zone to be enforced over Ukraine’s skies and for China to stop buying Russian petroleum products. Several hundred Ukrainian Americans assembled in the heart of Chicago’s...

(Editor’s note: The following article was written in a fluid situation and contains information that was current as of 6 p.m. Kyiv time on March 9.) WARSAW – Russia has resorted to wholesale bombing and shelling of civilian areas – including a maternity ward – as Moscow’s invading forces face heroic resistance from a battle-hardened...

UKRAINE – Ukraine’s military estimates that about 11,000 Russian military personnel have been killed or wounded as of the morning of March 6. Five Russian jets and four helicopters were destroyed in just one day on March 5, including Moscow’s latest Su-34 aircraft. Forty-four Russian aircraft and 48 helicopters have been destroyed since Russia launched...

UKRAINE – A long-time pro-Russian Ukrainian politician, Nestor Shufrych, was detained while taking pictures of a checkpoint near Kyiv. He was detained by a unit of the region’s territorial defense unit after his security detail shot at his apprehenders. Kyiv city councilman Oleksandr Pohrebynski was one of the first to announce the pro-Kremlin national lawmaker’s...

UKRAINE – As Ukrainian officials had warned for weeks leading up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, various European countries to the west of Ukraine are seeing in massive influx of asylum seekers fleeing the carnage that invading Russian forces have unleashed on the Ukrainian people. Multiple Western media outlets have cited Joung-ah Ghedini-Willians, who...

UKRAINE – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials implored the United States and NATO to impose a no-fly zone over its skies in response to Russia’s air superiority and indiscriminate shelling of civilian targets throughout the country. Additionally, there is evidence that a nuclear power plant was shelled by Russian forces. “I say every...

UKRAINE – After shelling the facility and raising fallout alarms across the continent, Russia on March 4 took over Europe’s largest nuclear power plant located in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhia Oblast. Ukraine’s State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation said on March 4 that Russia is now in control of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant. Russian checkpoints were...

U.N. says more than 1 million flee Ukraine amid growing Russian carnage (Editor’s note: The following article was written in a fluid situation and from an undisclosed location in Ukraine. It contains information that was current as of noon Kyiv time on March 3.) UKRAINE – Russia has made little appreciable headway in its attempt...

(Editor’s note: The following article was written in a fluid situation and from an undisclosed location in Ukraine. It contains information that was current as of noon Kyiv time on March 3.) UKRAINE – Russia has made little appreciable headway in its attempt to conquer Ukraine with a multi-pronged invasion that started on February 24....

(This  story is written amid Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is a fluid situation and the story’s components may lose their relevance as events change in Ukraine.) UKRAINE – Ukraine’s former ruler, Moscow, wants to rule it once again after three decades of not holding sway over what it considered its colony or...

KYIV – High-level discussions between the United and States and Russia are off the table until Moscow demonstrates a willingness to meet based on de-escalation, the White House said on February 22. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters during a daily briefing that Secretary of State Antony Blinken won’t meet with his Russian...

KYIV – Russian President Vladimir Putin made further demands on Ukraine saying its neighbor should stop arming itself, recognize the occupied Crimean Peninsula, resolve its Donbas border issues with Moscow proxies and rescind ambitions to join NATO. Speaking at a televised news briefing on February 22, Mr. Putin said when he formalized his country’s occupation...