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Moscow will be ready for a war against Ukraine ‘in a month,’ Felgenhauer saysWith the turn of the calendar and increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine and Russia and the West, Moscow will be ready to launch an attack on Ukraine “in a... -
Putin’s “Trojan horse” in Ukraine — Babyn Yar and Holocaust memorializationThe battle for the right to create a Holocaust museum at the location in Kyiv where the Nazis massacred Jews, Babyn Yar (Babi Yar), is proving no less hot than...
Biden phones Zelenskyy amid Russian troop build-up along Ukrainian borders and escalation in DonbasOn 2 April 2021, for the first time in office, U.S. President Joe Biden has called his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and held a 45-minute conversation amid the Russian military...
Ukraine should focus on getting ready for membership – Head of NATO RepresentationUkraine's Enhanced Opportunity Partner status is evidence that Ukraine is a contributor to, and not only a consumer of security, Mr Alexander Vinnikov, Head of the NATO Representation to Ukraine,...
Zelenskyy dismisses two Constitutional Court judges, deepening constitutional crisisThe constitutional crisis in Ukraine has been ongoing since 27 October 2020 and has not yet reached resolution. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s attempts to address the situation have either failed to...
Three warders who tortured prisoners in occupied Donbas “concentration camp” ID’d as Russian citizensThree warders involved in torturing prisoners at Izolyatsia, the illegal makeshift prison in occupied Donetsk termed a "concentration camp" by its victims, have been identified as Russian citizens. They received...
Sentenced to 24 years by Russian propaganda: report exposes Kremlin disinformation in Markiv caseThe case of Vitaliy Markiv has become emblematic of the effectiveness of Kremlin propaganda in influencing western minds. This Ukrainian National Guardsman was sentenced to 24 years in jail by...
Making Ukraine green again: how to keep the renewable “energy miracle” goingIn the last two years, Ukraine has made giant strides towards a low-carbon future. Unbeknownst to many, 12.3% of its energy production now comes from renewables, which is comparable to...
“World will see a free Ichkeria and a free Tatarstan,” secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council saysAfter Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and annexed Crimea, many Ukrainians urged that their country play up the national divisions within the Russian Federation as a warning to Moscow that...
Kremlin propaganda’s conspiracies claim that Ukrainian, Lithuanian leaders faked their vaccinationsSputnik’s claims were...Russia’s state news agency Sputnik lashes out against Lithuania’s ex-President Dalia Grybauskaitė – according to the outlet, there are reasons to believe that her jab was fake. -
Ukraine’s post-Maidan cinema renaissance continues to blossomIn the years since the Euromaidan Revolution, Ukraine's cinema has risen from the ashes. Ukrainian filmmakers have finally been able to gain world attention and have their films screened at... -
How a Ukrainian-born linguist cracked the Maya code"What is created by one human mind can be unraveled by another," said the young Ukrainian-born Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov and cracked the Maya code, a task that was considered... -
Forced migration in Crimea as part of Russia’s ‘hybrid’ strategyRussian President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 201 came into effect on March 20, 2021. The executive edict adds Crimea and Sevastopol to “the list of Russia’s border territories where foreign... -
The quiet front: the battle of identities in occupied Crimea and DonbasBeyond the sizzling trench warfare in occupied Donbas, a no less important battle is being fought. In a tactic harkening back to tsarist times, Russian occupation authorities are working overtime... -
Yermak’s earlier giveaways come back to haunt Zelenskyy and UkraineRussia abandoned the ceasefire in Ukraine’s east in early February (see EDM, February 18) and persists with low-intensity positional warfare to date, killing and wounding several Ukrainian soldiers every week....
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See which countries side with Russia during the UNGA votes on CrimeaSeven years ago, on 27 March 2014, 100 UN members condemned Russia's occupation of Crimea by adopting a relevant resolution at the General Assembly. However, the support for Ukraine's territorial... -
Ukrainian who enabled computer revolution awarded Ukraine’s highest honor in New YorkLyubomyr Romankiw, a US citizen of Ukrainian origin dubbed "the Ukrainian Elon Musk" by Ukrainian media, was awarded the order of Yaroslav the Wise. In his lifetime, Dr. Romankiw made... -
Moscow’s reasons behind the resumed fighting in DonbasFollowing the latest round of consultations of political advisors within the so-called Normandy format (Ukraine, Russia, France, Germany), Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine,... -
“I’m going to war so that our young people won’t be killed,” – do not forget fallen Defender Roman FurykThis essay by Ukrainian poet Olha Sloniovska is dedicated to fallen Defender Roman Furyk, who was killed on January 9, 2015 by Russian-backed militants near Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk Oblast. He... -
Two words that shook Putin’s regimeThe resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last Wednesday (March 17) has been extraordinarily loud—and the bilateral consequences could be...
