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Last year, on February 17, 2021, Ukraine’s parliament passed a resolution that called the Euro-Maidan protests, which culminated in February 2014, as a significant nation-building moment in the country’s history. The “Revolution of Dignity,” as it is referred to in the resolution, received support from 295 lawmakers. “The Revolution of Dignity is one of the...

Buildup ‘not sufficient’ for invasion Ukraine says Russian forces near its border are not yet large enough to conduct a full-scale invasion, even as the United States continues to insist an attack could be “imminent.” Russia has amassed more than 100,000 combat-ready troops and heavy equipment near Ukraine and in Crimea in what the United...

According to officials at the U.S. State Department and reports in The Washington Post and The New York Times on February 3, the United States has evidence indicating Russia formed a plan to stage a false attack that would serve as the necessary impetus for Russian President Vladimir Putin to order a renewed invasion of...

Thirty years ago, on February 10, 1992, the first phase of the U.S. pledge to provide humanitarian aid to the former Soviet republics began with the arrival of a C-5 Galaxy cargo plane at Kyiv’s Boryspil Airport. The first shipment to Ukraine was distributed by Ukraine’s Ministry of Health. It included a 50-ton payload of...

“Cyborg” by Wolodymyr Mohuchy, Xlibris Publishing, 2021. ISBN: 9781664191631 (softcover), $17.99, and ISBN: 9781664191648 (hardcover), $31.99, 240 pp; ISBN: 9787664191624 (e-book), $3.99. Wolodymyr Mohuchy’s latest book of fiction, “Cyborg,” is the second book in a series that follows the exploits of Terry Adams, a forensic investigator for an upscale law firm. Adams is engaged by...

Envoy hands over written responses Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry says U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan has handed over Washington’s written responses to an array of security demands that Moscow has made of the West. Russian news agencies said Mr. Sullivan left the Foreign Affairs Ministry building in Moscow in the evening of January 26 after staying...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that the world was standing behind Ukraine because its allies understand that the potential conflict between Ukraine and Russia is “bigger than a conflict between two countries. It’s bigger than Russia and NATO. It’s a crisis with global consequences, and it requires global attention and action.”...

Fifteen years ago, on February 1, 2007, U.S. astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper concluded her first visit to Ukraine, and received a hero’s welcome.  On her final day in Ukraine, she was presented the Order of Princess Olha state award by then Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. “Ukraine will always be happy to meet you and your family...

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Poroshenko defiant in return to Ukraine Former President Petro Poroshenko has returned to Ukraine to fight treason charges he rejects as politically motivated, setting the stage for a divisive political storm as the government seeks the support of its Western partners amid heightened tensions with Russia. At the Kyiv airport, where he arrived on a...

KYIV – A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on January 17, during which time the senators expressed their strong solidarity with Ukraine in the face of increased Russian aggression, including the further military buildup of Russian troops on the Ukraine/Russia border. The participants of the meeting also discussed the...

The following statement was released by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on January 20. In advance of a potential further invasion of Ukraine, Russian intelligence services, mainly the Federal Security Service (FSB), a U.S. sanctioned entity, have been recruiting Ukrainian nationals in key positions to gain access to sensitive information. The FSB leverages these...