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OTTAWA – In his first public address on his first overseas visit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told delegates attending the Ukraine Reform Conference in Toronto on July 2 that the host country for the third annual gathering is a model for Ukraine.
“Canada sets an example of the kind of country we’d like to become – a country of prosperous and happy people who live in harmony with the outside world, in harmony with the environment and with themselves,” said the 41-year-old Ukrainian head of state.

NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands – The Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands will prosecute four suspects for bringing down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
This decision was made on the basis of the investigation conducted by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), consisting of law enforcement agencies from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, Ukraine and the Netherlands. The announcement was made on June 19 in Nieuwegein following a meeting with surviving relatives of the victims who died in the plane crash.

KYIV – The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople decreed on October 11 that processes continue toward creating a fully self-governed Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The move, following a three-day Holy Synod in Istanbul, further solidifies support for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church that Moscow has for centuries opposed.

In a communiqué issued on October 11, the Chief Secretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod stated that it renewed the “decision already made that the Ecumenical Patriarchate proceed to the granting of autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine.”

The U.S. Senate has passed, by unanimous consent, S. Res. 435 – “A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies against the people of Ukraine.”

WASHINGTON – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the United States and other Western powers to continue their sanctions on…...

KYIV – Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian military pilot who has become the nation’s globally recognized symbol of resistance to…...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The verdict and sentence announced on March 22 by a Russian court in the fabricated case against…...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukraine on October 15 won its bid for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.…...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Sander Levin (D-Mich.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Michael Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)…...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on January 14 released a statement…...

Ukrainian authorities say 10 civilians have been killed and 13 wounded by a missile that hit a bus in eastern…...

NEW YORK – Activists of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA) met with two of the three attorneys…...