Author: Roman Tymotsko

LVIV – On the morning of August 6, workers who had earlier removed a Soviet-era hammer-and-sickle from one of the tallest statues in Europe replaced it with the Ukrainian coat of arms. Kyiv’s Motherland Monument now features a massive trident on the statue’s 43-foot-tall, 26-foot-wide shield, and officials are working to rename the entire edifice...

LVIV – Some 6.2 million Ukrainians are currently living abroad as a result of the full-scale war on Ukraine launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February of 2022, according to the Deputy Minister of the Economy of Ukraine Tetiana Berezhna. “After the start of the Russian full-scale invasion, Ukraine has faced an unprecedented situation....

LVIV – Following Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, Kyiv and its allies have sought to ensure that the disruption of food exports from Ukraine to the most vulnerable parts of the world does not cause a humanitarian crisis throughout the Global South. Ukrainian diplomats working...

LVIV – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol paid a surprise visit to Ukraine on July 15, according to the Korean news agency Yonhap, where he announced that the Republic of Korea will increase military aid to Ukraine this year and emphasized the country’s intention to take a significant role in rebuilding Ukraine after the...

LVIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish President Andrzej Duda held a joint commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Volyn Massacre on July 9 in Lutsk, Ukraine, where the two leaders made an unannounced visit to the Lutsk Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul to honor the memory of those killed...

LVIV – Ukraine’s military commanders who defended the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol returned to Ukraine on July 8 after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy secured their release from Turkey. The five men were taken as prisoners of war and released to Ankara were they were being held since September 2022 as part of a three-way agreement...

LVIV – As Georgian former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s condition is becoming life-threatening, relations between the two countries have deteriorated as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on July 3 called on Georgian authorities to free the Ukrainian citizen so that he could be given proper medical care abroad. Ukraine also asked that the Georgian ambassador leave Kyiv...

KYIV – A district court in the Ukrainian capital sentenced Vladyslav Manher, a former head of the regional council in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, and Oleksiy Levin, a former aide to a regional lawmaker, to 10 years in prison for the killing of anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handzyuk, who died in 2018 after being...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina – The War Childhood Museum, the world’s only museum focused exclusively on children impacted by war, has for several years been collecting testimonies from children and teenagers from all regions of Ukraine and those who found themselves abroad because of the war. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on...

Zelenskyy calls initial humanitarian response ‘slow’ LVIV – After Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant on June 6, a massive body of water destroyed settlements and natural ecosystems throughout the Kherson region of Ukraine, triggering a response from international humanitarian aid organizations that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy initially called “slow.” The residents of...

CANNES, France – Ukrainians used the 76th Festival de Cannes, one of the world’s top cultural events, to continue to shed light on their country’s fight in a war launched by Russia more than 15 months ago. With a film in the official competition, multiple events and various screenings on the sidelines of the festival,...

CANNES, France – The film “As It Was,” directed by Ukrainian Anastasia Solone-vych and Damian Kocur of Poland, premiered at the 76th Festival de Cannes Short Film Competition on May 26. It was selected from among 4,288 films entered into the short film category. “As It Was” tells the story of a Ukrainian refugee’s return...