Mark Raczkiewycz    Additional Congressional funding for Kyiv looks to pass before New Year CHICAGO Last month, Russia suffered the highest casualties in the war since it initially invaded Ukraine in . Most of the losses took place around the Donetsk regional town of Avdiyivka. Itaveraged more than killed...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    LVIV On November , Ukraine and the world commemorated the th anniversary of the Holodomor, a genocide that, according to various estimates, claimed the lives of some to million people who died of starvation in in rural areas of the Ukrainian SSR and the Kuban where the vast...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    VIENNA Just two days before Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in February , Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Andrei Rudenko addressed the lower chamber of parliament on what would become the Kremlin’s initial steps to annex territory in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    On November , the wives and mothers of mobilized Russian soldiers held a protest in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk against rumors of another mass mobilization and demanded the return of their guys. Similar protests have swept across Russia in recent weeks but were met with little state...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    On November , a Big Circle Bol’shoi Krug meeting of over delegates from regions of Russia and countries of the world took place in Moscow to discuss Cossack issues and confirm the election of Chief Ataman Nikolai Dyakanov as leader of the Union of Cossack Warriors of Russia and...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine It was still completely dark when Mykyta Zavilinskiy woke up at a.m. and rushed out of his unit’s base to evacuate a wounded soldier from the battlefield in the Donbas region. The semiconscious man had multiple shrapnel wounds and was losing blood. With injuries from his...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    KYIV As it prepares to start membership talks with the European Union, Ukraine faces a fundamental debate about freedom of speech, a key E.U. value: Does Russia’s full scale invasion still justify restrictions on accredited journalists reporting from inside parliament To pro government lawmakers...

Mark Raczkiewycz    Assembly draws attention to Russia’s ongoing war to eradicate Ukrainian nation CHICAGO Several hundred supporters of Ukraine assembled at the Chicago Water Tower on November to call attention to the th anniversary of a Soviet man made famine that was perpetrated against Ukrainians in ...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    When Henry Kissinger was born in Germany in , Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin was still alive and the ghosts of World War I still haunted Europe. He grew up as Jewish child while Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, fleeing with his family to the United States in . He was when Soviet... ...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent visit to the southern region of Zaporizhia underscored the urgent need for Ukraine to fortify its defensive positions along the frontlines. His emphasis on accelerating the fortification process, particularly in the Donetsk region, Lyman, and Kupyansk in the...

Support    In Ukrainian American doctors Nelya and Serhii Melnitchouk founded a non profit to work on improving cancer and trauma care in Ukraine. The focus of Global Medical Knowledge Alliance GMKA is to develop physician and patient educational content that is evidence based, written by experts, and...

Support    The implementation of geothermal energy in Ukraine could bring an important new source to ensure energy security. Taras Popadynets, head of Geothermal Ukraine, and Yuliia Demchuk, board member, discuss why the NGO Geothermal Ukraine was established and what the advantages are in the implementation...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Forty years ago, on December, , as Ukrainians worldwide marked the th anniversary of the Holodomor of , readers of The Ukrainian Weekly were given a glimpse of the initial aftermath of the Soviet orchestrated genocidal famine through the editorials of Svoboda, the Ukrainian...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Zelenskyy meets with frontline troops President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Ukrainian troops on the front line in the Kupyansk area of the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv on November , the president’s office reported on Telegram, a day after he visited troops in the south. At the advanced...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Ukraine was one of nations competing at the World Junior Weightlifting Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico, on November . Ukrainian competitors placed third in the medal table rankings in Big total results with one gold and two bronze medals, while finishing fourth in rankings...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    When Russia invaded Ukraine in February , Ukrainian professional athletes and some specialized adventurers joined territorial defense forces to help defend their country. Their specific skill sets have proven to be invaluable on the frontlines, though these individuals are far from their...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    As Russian drones blast infrastructure sites in north, south KYIV Ukrainian forces looked to build on bridgeheads on the east bank of the Dnipro River on November after a night in which Russian drone attacks blasted Ukrainian infrastructure and residential sites and caused at least two deaths...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    LVIV British Foreign Affairs Secretary David Cameron on November made his first visit in his new role to Kyiv, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The two men discussed sending additional weapons to the frontline, strengthening Ukraine’s air defenses and protecting the...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    Ukraine and its allies were expected to hold a meeting on November to discuss ways to enhance protection against an expected uptick in Russian attacks on the war torn country’s energy and civilian infrastructure during the upcoming cold season. The virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    The West’s inadequate arming of Ukraine predetermined costly failures for Kyiv’s counteroffensive. The effort to dislodge Russian forces from their entrenched positions in southeastern Ukraine has become a difficult endeavor both militarily and politically Euromaidan Press, Novem ber . Kyiv felt...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    During the most recent Belt and Road summit in Beijing, Russia agreed to supply China with million tons of grain, legumes and oilseeds worth . trillion rubles about . billion over the next years TASS, October . Head of the Russian company New Overland Grain Corridor, Karen...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    WASHINGTON Three hundred twenty five, , , . The downward trend is clear. The numbers represent the millions of dollars in military aid distributed to Ukraine during the past four U.S. weapon drawdown rounds from September through November . October’s total of million was the...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    KYIV Kyiv’s first counteroffensive against Russia’s influence occurred a decade ago, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on November as Ukraine marked the th anniversary of the Day of Dignity and Freedom the start of the Euro Maidan protest movement that culminated with the ouster of Moscow...

Ukrainian Weekly Editor    The following is the full text of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech given to mark Ukraine’s Day of Dignity and Freedom in Kyiv on November . The text of the speech was released by the Office of the President of Ukraine and was published online at https: www.president.gov.ua en...