Author: Ulana Mazurkevich

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The White House held a briefing on March 4 for a delegation of ethnic leaders, including a group of Ukrainian Americans, with officials from the U.S. National Security Council, the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach and the Office of Public Engagement. The meeting was held at the White House on the...

PHILADELPHIA – Members of the Ukrai­nian community in and around Philadel­phia gathered in prayer on Novem­ber 27 to remember one of the darkest chapters in human history. Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak together with Rev. Wasyl Kharuk, rector of St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jenkintown, Pa., as well as guest clergy, joined in...

PHILADELPHIA – The city of Philadelphia hosted a visit of some 20 European Union ambassadors and diplomats from more than 27 countries on October 3 for an evening celebration highlighting the partnership between the E.U. and Pennsylvania. The event was also an opportunity for officials and diplomats to demonstrate their support for Ukraine, which is...

PHILADELPHIA – More than 200 people attended a gala benefit at the Polish American Cultural Center on May 1 that raised over $50,000 for aid to Ukraine. Ulana Mazurkevich, president of the Ukrainian Human Rights Committee, opened the event with the words of the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko. “Ukraine is; Ukraine will be. No one...

It is August 24 and I am in Kyiv to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s renewed independence and to show a film which I made 30 years ago when I came to Kyiv to help with the independence referendum of 1991. I remember those halcyon days when, together with Rukh activists, I traveled to...