Report details Russian cyberattacks Microsoft says its researchers have determined that Russian hackers have conducted destructive cyberattacks on Ukraine, including some that date back to a year before it launched its full-scale war on Ukraine on February 24. The U.S. software giant released a report on April 27 that details cyberattacks that it said its...
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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited the Kyiv suburbs of Bucha and Borodyanka on April 28. He stood and looked down at the site of a mass grave in Bucha. In Borodyanka, he called on the Russians to cooperate with the investigation being conducted by the International Criminal Court. Earlier in the week he...
Seventy years ago, on May 4, 1952, at the American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevist Block of Nations rally held at the Manhattan Center in New York, I. M. Bilinsky addressed the more than 2,000 participants who gathered to call for the Soviet Union to be expelled from the United Nations in response to the threat...
Finance ministers walk out of G-20 U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Canadian and European counterparts on April 20 led a walkout of a meeting of Group of 20 (G-20) finance officials in protest against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. British, French and Canadian officials joined the walkout of the virtual meeting, which took place...
While the Western world reacted in horror to the atrocities being committed by the Russian military in towns across Ukraine, most infamously in Bucha, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded by issuing a decree on April 18 honoring the very brigade accused by Kyiv of committing those war crimes. The move came after Ukrainian forces retook...
Seven years ago, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster, on April 25, 2016, Associated Press reporters who visited the edge of the Chornobyl exclusion zone in Belarus said that milk from a dairy farm there contained radioactive isotopes at least 10 times higher than the country’s safety limits...
Russia agrees to humanitarian corridors Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says that nine humanitarian corridors have been agreed upon with Russia to allow for the evacuation of civilians from several cities, including the besieged port city of Mariupol. Other evacuation routes for April 14 are from Berdyansk, Tokmak and Enerhodar, while others in the...
A highly disturbing story on the front page of this week’s issue of The Ukrainian Weekly alleges that Russian forces are increasingly raping Ukrainian civilians, and that they are doing so as a way of “demonstrating strength, of terrorizing people and breaking them psychologically and physically,” as one psychologist and aid worker said in an...
Fifteen years ago, on April 18, 2007, Ukraine and Poland were announced as co-hosts of the 2012 European Soccer Championship, known as the Euro Cup. It was the first time that either of the two countries hosted a major soccer tournament and it was seen as a major boost for the sport in Eastern Europe...
U.S. Senate approves bill on arms for Ukraine The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a bill that will help U.S. President Joe Biden send weapons and other supplies to Ukraine as it tries to defend itself from an invasion by Russia. The bill approved by the Senate late on April 6 provides enhanced authority for...
Branch Delegate 5 Lew, Maya 5 Lew, Oksana 5 Oprysko, Andrew 10 Kulish, Liudmyla 10 Kulish, Viktor 10 Shumylo, Mikhail 10 Streletsky, Vasily 10 Semenyuk, Natalya (alternate) 10 Voyevoda, Dmitriy (alternate) 10 Voyevoda, Nadia (alternate) 13 Doloszycki, Dorothy 13 Fil, Peter 13 Myshchuk, Volodymyr 13 Tysiak, Cynthia 13 Myshchuk, Taras (alternate) 37 Popovich, Marta 37 Stanko, George 37 Kaczaj, Roman (alternate) 42 Demitre, Luba 42 Drich, Maria…
The world has now come to know the gruesome and unconscionable horrors perpetrated by the Russian military in the Ukrainian towns of Bucha, Irpin and Borodyanka. We believe there will most certainly be more in other towns. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visibly shaken by the scenes uncovered in Bucha, was not only clearly distraught by...