Author: Mark Raczkiewycz

CHICAGO – At only 26 years of age, Harrison Jozefowicz has fought in Afghanistan, served as a Chicago police officer and spent six months in Ukraine for more than a year while providing critical humanitarian aid to internally displaced people and non-lethal equipment to soldiers facing a menacing full-scale invasion by Russia. Visibly fatigued, and...

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CHICAGO – Several hundred people gathered in Chicago on April 2 to draw attention to Moscow’s abduction and forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia or occupied Ukrainian territories. The rally took place at Chicago’s landmark Water Tower, which survived the Great Fire of 1871, and was organized by the Ukrainian...

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CHICAGO – An overwhelming majority of Ukrainians are displaying an astute yearning to learn more about their country’s history, a trend that has sharply increased from a decade ago, less than a year before Russia’s initial invasion that began with the seizure of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. A nationwide poll published earlier in March...

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CHICAGO – Russia, which launched a full-scale war on Ukraine meant to subjugate the nation through genocidal means more than one year ago, is seeing battlefield tactics change as both sides adjust to what has become a war of attrition. As Kyiv continues to integrate Western weaponry into its armed formations amid slow deliveries, advancing...

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Occupants of Ukraine’s most significant holy site remain defiant, say they won’t leave CHICAGO – The Ukrainian-affiliated branch of the Russian Orthodox Church is being told to vacate the centuries-old Monastery of the Caves, known better as the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra, in another move by Kyiv to reclaim its historical and spiritual heritage. The church...

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Investigation will include death of soldier who said ‘glory to Ukraine’ before being killed CHICAGO – Oleksandr Matsievsky, 42, kept his word to his mother. He told Paraska Demchuk during their last conversation on December 29, 2022, that he “would never be taken prisoner.” The Chernihiv territorial defense unit member did just that, according to...

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Kyiv sends reinforcements and says ‘strategic’ fall back still possible CHICAGO – Russian forces are bent on encircling the Donetsk district capital of Bakhmut to sever support for Ukrainian forces in the city, as open-source data available online shows only a 5.6-kilometer (3.8-mile) gap of Ukrainian-controlled terrain now leads in or out of the beleaguered...

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CHICAGO – Despite freezing temperatures, more than 1,000 people gathered for a rally in the heart of the Ukrainian Village neighborhood on February 24 to commemorate the first-year anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine. Saint Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church was center stage, and 365 people from the Klych (beckon) advocacy group lined...

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CHICAGO – Despite freezing temperatures, more than 1,000 people gathered for a rally in the heart of the Ukrainian Village neighborhood on February 24 to commemorate the first-year anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine. Saint Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church was center stage, and 365 people from the Klych (beckon) advocacy group lined...

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U.S. president pledges ‘unwavering’ support to Ukraine CHICAGO – U.S. President Joe Biden’s hazardous trip to Kyiv ahead of the first year anniversary that marked the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was seen more as a stringent message to his counterpart in the Kremlin. As the first U.S. commander-in-chief to visit Ukraine since...

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Getting equipment to battlefield in time is ‘a work in progress’ CHICAGO – A coalition of dozens of countries that have been providing arms to Kyiv are urging that the production of military hardware be ramped up to keep pace with the munitions Ukraine is using on the battlefield amid a new Russian offensive. This...

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Main thrust expected in Luhansk Oblast while Bakhmut faces encirclement CHICAGO – A renewed Russian offensive is unfolding in eastern Ukraine. The war-battered country’s military general staff said on February 9 that the latest massive-scale assault is underway along five axes in the nation’s easternmost regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. Ukrainian officials have for weeks...

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