Author: Oksana Bashuk Hepburn

On the eve of the G-7 summit last month, the Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine (I’m a member) asked the government of Canada to advise President Petro Poroshenko to withdraw from implementing Minsk II until Russia removes its military and terrorists from Luhansk and Donetsk. To do less, according to the letter to Canada’s...

From a Canadian Angle As Ukraine’s government works diligently towards establishing itself as a democratic institution mindful of the well-being of its citizens, its policies need to be mindful of good intentions going wrong. To ensure that they don’t offers an opportunity for Ukraine’s friends like Canada. Take agriculture, for example. The breadbasket of Europe,...

On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated when tanks of the First Ukrainian Front broke through the enclosures. Twenty-year-old Ihor Pobirchenko was the first to confront the horror perpetrated by the Nazis. Atop a tank, he saw humans hanging from the barbed-wire enclosure. They were alive, but barely: the fence was not electrified. The tanks...