Mark Raczkiewycz    Kyiv forces maintain and expand presence in Russia’s Kursk region as war dynamic changes CHICAGO Five Ukrainian regional capitals suffered a barrage of Russian attacks over the week from long range Russian projectiles and Iranian provided suicide drones that devastated population centers....

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    A Russian drone and missile attack killed seven people in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, one day after a strike on a military facility killed more than people in the eastern city of Poltava in one of the worst air strikes of the war, leaving residents in shock over the loss of life ... ...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    LVIV The National Bank of Ukraine NBU announced a proposed change to the name of the country’s coin to remove any connections it had with Soviet or Russian history and revive a name used more than a century ago. Andriy Pyshniy, head of Ukraine’s National Bank, said during a press briefing on...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    On August , the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed a law banning all religious organizations in Ukraine subordinate to religious structures headquartered in countries engaged in aggression against Ukraine Verkhovna Rada, August . Many Ukrainians have demanded this measure be taken...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    The impact of Ukraine’s August offensive operation into Kursk Oblast remains an open strategic question following four weeks of increasingly intense and fluid fighting see Eurasia Daily Monitor, August , . Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first reaction to this incursion was clearly...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    KYIV Iryna was among dozens who gathered near a traffic junction to get a freshly cooked free meal on a recent afternoon. The year old used to work as a journalist but now, she says, with her modest pension and no help from her family, she comes here regularly. Most of those lining up for ......

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    PRAGUE About three weeks after Ukraine’s military launched a surprise incursion into Russia’s western Kursk region, the operation remains an important element of the war, said leading Russian opposition figure Mikhail Kho dorkovsky in an interview with RFE RL’s Current Time. The operation on...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on September that the Ukrainian military’s incursion into Russian territory has not affected Moscow’s so called special military operation, the phrase the Kremlin uses to describe its war against Ukraine. Speaking at the Eastern Eurasian Forum in Russia...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Earlier this month, on the same day that Ukrainian lawmakers effectively moved to ban an entire branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, the leader of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church publicly weighed in with a critical opinion on the historic, and controversial, step. The Ukrainian law, Patriarch Daniil...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Vladimir Putin’s worldview, shaped by decades of Soviet influence and authoritarian governance, reflects a fundamentally different understanding of human nature than the one found in liberal democratic societies. He believes that human nature, and therefore the relationship between human beings,...

Support    Andrew D’Anieri is a resident fellow and former assistant director with the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center. He discusses the recent trip to Kyiv of U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham. They made a proposal for a new U.S. Ukraine economic partnership in the development of strategic...

Support    Andreas Umland is an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies SCEEUS at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. His focus as a political scientist has been contemporary...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Five years ago, on September, , Ukraine welcomed home political prisoners and hostages released from Russian custody. Among those who were released were Oleh Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker from Crimea. His release generated much joy and hope, but also some controversy. The Ukrainians were...

Support    KYIV With Russia’s full scale invasion at months and counting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to shake things up on the battlefield and in the halls of power in Kyiv. In early August, Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into Russian territory, sending troops across the...

Support    Mongolian officials rolled out the red carpet on September for a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin. While visiting the vast East Asian country, which borders Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west, Putin reportedly inked agreements on the supply of aviation fuel to...

Support    BINGHAMTON, N.Y. A flag raising ceremony at Binghamton City Hall on August attracted the local Ukrainian American community to celebrate the rd anniversary of Ukraine’s renewed independence and commemorate the fallen heroes defending Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression. The local...

Alex Kuzma    Senator urges Biden administration to lift restrictions on Kyiv’s use of long range weapons NEWINGTON, Conn. Hundreds of Ukrainian Americans and supporters of Ukraine from across Connecticut gathered on August to celebrate the rd anniversary of Ukrainian independence at Churchill Park in...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. The Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Convention UEBC in the U.S.A. announced the election of a new president, the Rev. Ioann Ustenko, pastor of Regeneration Church in Fairless Hills, Pa. The election took place on August during the th annual conference of the UEBC, which...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Rada appoints new foreign affairs minister Ukraine’s parliament has approved the nomination of Andriy Sybiha as the country’s new foreign affairs minister, replacing Dmytro Kuleba as part of a major government reshuffle. First appointment: Andriy Sybiha as minister for foreign affairs of Ukraine, ...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Ukraine’s Para athletes won medals halfway through the Paralympic Games in Paris. Ukraine ranked seventh in the medal tables and fifth overall in total medals. Ukrainian Paralympians have won nine gold, silver and bronze medals. Ukraine has thus far won medals in swimming and ...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Ukraine’s Para athletes at the Paralympic Games in Paris proudly showed off a three colored parade uniform, adding green to their traditional colors of blue and yellow. The successful approval of the controversial parade uniform was announced by Ukraine’s National Committee of Sports for...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Dmytro Melnyk is a drone operator who drops bombs on enemy positions or monitors troop movements from the air. He is based near the northeastern town of Vovchansk, an area of harsh fighting in the Kharkiv region. He’s also a skilled volleyball player who has dreamed of competing in the Paralympics...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Ukrainian Sarah Melenka has been a member of the Canadian national sitting volleyball team since , winning a bronze medal at the Parapan Am Games and a silver medal at the World Championships in Sarajevo. She competed for Team Canada at the Tokyo Paralympics and is in Paris...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    As Ukraine marked years of independence on August , President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukrainian prisoners were released in a swap with Russia. Another of our defenders have returned home today. They are warriors from the National Guard, the Armed Forces, the Navy and the...