Author: Staff

Five years ago, on April 11, 2017, Russia-backed occupying forces in Ukraine’s Donbas region and their local proxies fired at Ukrainian positions more than 45 times with weapons that included heavy artillery prohibited by the Minsk agreements. The one-sided violation of the ceasefire on April 11-12 followed an immediate violation of the ceasefire agreement just...

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Philanthropist, horse breeder and National Hockey League (NHL) team owner Eugene Melnyk passed away from an undisclosed illness on March 28. The Ukrainian Melnyk, a Toronto native, was 62 years old. He purchased the NHL’s Ottawa Senators franchise and the Canadian Tire Centre in 2003 for $130 million after reaching a deal with creditors. Melnyk...

Russia ‘taking incredible losses’ Russia has been sustaining “incredible” losses since the start of its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. State Department official says, putting the figure at more than 10,000 killed since the attack was launched just over a month ago. “I think that, unfortunately, the Russians have not yet fully learned...

Russia’s unprovoked and premeditated war on Ukraine – which began eight years ago in 2014, and escalated massively when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his force of some 150,000 troops to invade Ukraine on February 24 – has clearly reached a new phase at the end of March.  By various accounts, Putin believed his invading...

Eight years ago, on April 7, 2014, protesters seized control of state buildings in Donetsk Oblast and declared an independent republic. Self-declared authorities invited Russian soldiers to ensure a referendum to join the Russian Federation. It was a move that echoed the Russia playbook in Crimea just three weeks prior. The situation grew tense as...

Borrell accuses Moscow of stalling Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top diplomat, says Russia is stalling in talks on a cease-fire in Ukraine and won’t take the discussions seriously until it has reached its goals with its unprovoked invasion. In an interview with Spain’s TVE broadcast on March 24, Mr. Borrell said Russian President Vladimir...

We write these words on March 24, exactly one month after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked and premeditated war against Ukraine. In the month since Russian troops have laid siege on Ukraine’s eastern cities, it has become abundantly clear – and we believe that it has also become just as clear to the...

Thirty years ago, on April 1, 1992, The Ukrainian Weekly carried reports of escalation in the Transdnister Autonomous Republic (as it was then known, though it is now known as Transdniestria. The region is not recognized internationally) between Moldovan forces and Russian occupying forces in what was termed a “breakaway region” of Moldova. At least...

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Zelenskyy evokes Reagan speech Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made an impassioned plea to German lawmakers to “tear down” the wall Russia is building to divide Europe with its invasion of Ukraine. “It’s not a Berlin Wall – it is a wall in Central Europe between freedom and bondage and this wall is growing bigger...

As we write these words, Russia’s unprovoked, premeditated full scale war against Ukraine, which began on February 24, has reached its third full week. Russian President Vladimir Putin has greatly, and perhaps gravely (time will tell), underestimated the heroism, resolve and fighting spirit of the Ukrainian people. By various accounts, he expected the war to...