Author: The Ukrainian Weekly

Zelenskyy uses Baltic tour to tout success President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has shown Russia’s military is stoppable as he made a surprise visit to the Baltics to help ensure continued aid to his country amid a wave of massive Russian aerial barrages. Mr. Zelenskyy met with his Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nauseda on January 10...

As the world bid farewell to 2023, Ukrainians found little solace at the turn of the new year. Russia, in a reprehensible display of brutality, launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine during the Christmas and New Year holidays, further deepening the wounds of a nation already battered by a 22-month-old full-scale invasion. The Kyiv...

Seventy-two years ago, on January 11, 1952, more than 100 U.S. Congressmen of the Republican Party, including Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., and Minority Whip Leslie Arenda, urged U.S. Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson to take up a call for an immediate investigation by the United Nations General Assembly of genocide being perpetrated...

NATO calls meeting of new Ukraine Council The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will hold a meeting with diplomats and officials from the alliance’s members and Ukraine on January 10 to address the situation surrounding a wave of deadly Russian aerial attacks on Kyiv and other cities across the country. The military alliance’s press chief,...

As Ukraine enters a critical phase in its ongoing conflict with Russia, the specter of an existential threat looms large over the nation. The recent announcement by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov to mobilize Ukrainian men residing abroad underscores the severity of the situation. This move, coupled with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for an additional half...

Twenty-four years ago, on December 31, 1999, President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma announced, through his spokesman Oleksander Martynenko, that President Boris Yeltsin’s resignation was “a step of a courageous man who is worried over the future of his country and all Russians,” adding that Vladimir Putin would “continue to develop the strategic partnership” between Russia...

Ukraine says last tranche of E.U. aid received Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says Kyiv has received the last 1.5 billion-euro ($1.7 billion) tranche of the 18-billion-euro package from the European Union as other Western aid remains in doubt. “Today we have received the last 1.5 billion euros of the 18-billion-euro financial aid package. Hope...

On December 14, the European Union took a momentous step by deciding to open membership talks with Ukraine, a move that sends a powerful message of solidarity and hope. This decision comes in the face of opposition from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, reflecting the E.U.’s commitment to supporting Ukraine’s aspirations even as the country...

Two years ago, on December 22, 2021, Dutch prosecutors completed reading a detailed indictment at a courtroom of the Schiphol Judicial Complex in the Netherlands, where life sentences were demanded for three Russians and one Ukrainian who were accused of downing Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukrainian territory on July 17, 2014. The three-day proceedings...

Russian missile attack on Kyiv wounds dozens At least 53 people, including nine children, were wounded in the latest Russian missile attack on Kyiv early on December 13, officials said, despite all incoming missiles being shot down. Injuries were caused by debris from the downed missiles, emergency services said, adding that 18 of the victims,...

For the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion, the United States Congress has failed to pass a critical supplemental funding package for Ukraine, leaving the state of American support for the war-torn nation in dire straits. This deadlock, fueled by partisan politics, threatens to cut off crucial aid to Ukraine just as it faces escalating...

Thirty-two years ago, on December 15, 1991, The Ukrainian Weekly’s editorial of that issue quoted Vladimir Lenin, who wrote, “If we lose Ukraine, we lose our head.” That moment came on December 1, 1991, when Ukraine’s citizens overwhelmingly voted for independence in a national referendum. The move by the Ukrainian citizenry showed the Soviet Union’s...