Mark Raczkiewycz    Delegates meet with Zelenskyy to better coordinate assistance CHICAGO A summit in the Romanian capital of Bucharest held by the Ukrainian World Congress UWC , the main worldwide advocacy group of Ukrainians, was held over the past weekend for three days to address the war ravaged country’s...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    As Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine have intensified At least people have died and several were injured in a Russian air strike on the city of Chernihiv, an attack President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said couldn’t be thwarted because Ukraine lacked sufficient air defenses due to dwindling...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    LONDON Ukraine’s recent strategic strikes on Russian oil refineries are reshaping the landscape of the ongoing war as the nation leverages offensive actions to diminish Russia’s oil production capabilities. The offensive maneuvers, despite U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s cautionary stance,...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Since the beginning of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expanded invasion of Ukraine in February , polls have consistently shown that Russian women are more likely to oppose the war than Russian men. Unsurprisingly, Russian women have taken more steps to oppose Putin’s war than their male...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Against all strategic rationale, Russian troops keep pushing Ukrainian defenses beyond Avdiyivka and Bakhmut, paying a heavy price in casualties for every inch gained. The primary reason for these self destructive attacks is to maintain the initiative necessary to prove Russia’s upper hand in the ...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    TROMS , Norway In the northern reaches of Norway, Troms stands as a proud gateway to the Arctic, one that has in the past two years become a small hub of support for Ukraine. Home to approximately , residents, it ranks among the largest cities situated above the Arctic Circle. Yet, as it...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    PHILADELPHIA Dorian Mazurke vich, a Ukrainian American lawyer and U.S. diplomat from Philadelphia, has been awarded the U.S. Department of Com mer ce Gold Medal for his work in supporting U.S. commercial interests in Ukraine during Russia’s war. The Gold Medal is the highest honor granted by the...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    The European Union’s foreign policy chief called on E.U. member states to give Ukraine more air defense systems as the embattled country grapples with increasingly intense Russian air strikes on its infrastructure while its stocks of weapons and ammunition dwindle as critical U.S. aid remains stuck...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    The column of Russian armored vehicles carefully approached Chasiv Yar from the east, threading its way along dirt roads, skirting patches of forest and avoiding Ukrainian laid minefields while dodging incoming drones and artillery. The April assault on the Donetsk region city was repelled,...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Roman Jaroslav Czajkowsky, a noted Ukrainian American activist, journalist and author died on March of complications from COVID in Venice, Fla. He was . One of a new wave of Ukrainian nationalists born outside the country after World War II, Mr. Czajkowsky was devoted to nurturing Ukraine’s...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    The United States stands at a critical juncture, facing the imminent decision on a vital aid package for Ukraine. This moment demands decisive action, and yet, amidst political discord, the urgency risks being overshadowed. It falls upon us, the Ukrainian diaspora, to rally and ensure that our...

Support    Myroslava Gongadze is the Eastern Europe Chief for the Voice of America. She is a prominent and seasoned Ukrainian journalist currently based in Warsaw, Poland. In this interview, Ms. Gongadze discusses the critical need for U.S. aid for Ukraine, Ukraine’s air defenses and its major gains in the...

Support    Ukrainian American Tamara Syby Holovak is the Razom project lead for the Ukraine response initiative and welcome center in the New York City area. She is also the refugee coordinator for Ukrainian Jersey City and the Vice President with Soyuz Ukrainok Branch . Tamara’s Ukrainian family roots in...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Thirty eight years ago, on April , , the nuclear power plant at Chornobyl suffered a catastrophic meltdown that released radiation and resulted in an evacuated exclusion zone. Bohdan Bocurkiw, a noted expert on the Soviet Union, observed, The nuclear disaster at Chornobyl has major...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    On April , Russian news outlet Izvestiya reported that sources in the Russian Defense Ministry MoD are saying that Moscow plans to build a network of drone bases along its entire Arctic coast. The goal of this endeavor is to monitor foreign activity along the Northern Sea Route NSR and the...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    YONKERS, N.Y. Building on last year’s success, the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor Genocide Awareness announ ced the winners of the Ukrainian Holodomor Genocide Student Competition. The winners of the competition in the grade category are Rose Martin of Immaculate Heart Academy...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    NEW YORK The annual meeting of the Ukrainian Free University Foundation UFUF was held in hybrid fashion at the foundation’s office in New York and via Webex on March . The meeting was conducted by a presidium consisting of Askold Lozynskyj chairman and Stefan Slutzky secretary . The...

Mark Raczkiewycz    CHICAGO Chess runs in the veins of Ukrainians. There is evidence that chess considered to be one of the oldest board games in the world was played in the th century kingdom of Kyivan Rus’. A group of Ukrainian historians tracked the spread of the game through trade routes from India and...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    PARSIPPANY, N.J. Some, guests gathered to celebrate the formal debut of young women into the vibrant Ukrainian American community during the Ukrainian American Youth Associa tion’s UAYA th annual debutante ball at the Sheraton Parsippany Hotel on Feb ruary . The ball, a longstanding...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    WASHINGTON, D.C. In the heart of this city, amid historic venues and the cultural tapestry of the nation’s capital, the Ukrainian American community gathered at the Omni Shoreham Hotel on January to celebrate four young ladies who made their debut at the Washington, D.C., Ukrainian debutante...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    The Board of Directors of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in the U.S. along with the group Scouts for Ukraine announced the launch of the Warm Hearts initiative to involve cub scouts and scouts in collecting and sending warming kits to Ukraine for soldiers defending their homeland on the...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    House speaker backs U.S. aid for Ukraine House Speaker Mike Johnson R La. pushed back on April against mounting anger within his own party over proposed U.S. security aid for Ukraine, Israel and other allies, and rejected a call to step aside or risk a vote to oust him from office. After...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    The co main event featuring junior welterweights Nazri Rahimov of Ukraine and Jorge Moya of Colombia was rudely interrupted by air raid sirens warning of potential danger falling from the sky in Kyiv on March . Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with ballistic missiles, according to promoter Vlad...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    For new National Hockey League NHL head coach Ryan Huska, younger players should get a chance, though playing time is not guaranteed, and communication is key. Mixing and matching lines is okay, though his team’s game is a work in progress. But Huska’s first couple of months as the new head coach...