Section: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and USA (Canada)
1.7 Million Ukrainian Children Suffering Amid Conflict, Winter Cold
More than 1.7 million children in conflict-torn areas of eastern Ukraine face an “extremely serious” situation, the U.N. children’s agency has warned, with their suffering exacerbated by harsh winter weather. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Obama has signed the Ukraine Freedom Support Act
“On Thursday, December 18, 2014, the President signed into law H.R. 5859, the “Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014,” which contains sanctions provisions on various Russian persons and entities and military and non-military assistance authorities for Ukraine,” the release said. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
US Imposes New Russia Sanctions Ahead Of Ukraine Peace Talks
The United States imposed sanctions Friday on Russian-controlled Crimea as Ukraine announced the loss of five soldiers ahead of peace talks meant to end a war against Russian-backed insurgents. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Gas is flowing again from Russia to Ukraine, but blackouts have hit factories and homes
Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, says Ukraine’s independence is compromised by its energy dependence on Russia. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
The Opportunity Of War
Perhaps the most unexpected result of the Russian-Ukrainian war – at least for its instigators - is the increasing support of Ukrainian citizens for all the things that the war was designed to destroy, revert, or undermine. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
For Ukraine! (Photo)
For Ukraine! (Photo) …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Diaspora activists can’t abandon their kinsmen
Four international election observers from Buffalo served in the snap Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine on Oct. 26. We worked in Odessa and Kharkiv, less than 30 miles from the porous Russian border, and adjacent to the war-ravaged oblasts of Donetsk… …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Obama dare not utter the word ‘invasion’ and asks his advisers why Ukraine is so important
Russia denies it has troops in eastern Ukraine while Ukraine itself describes its own military actions there as an “anti-terrorist operation”. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Joseph Stalin, the ‘butcher’ of Ukraine
Eight years ago, on Nov. 28, 2006, the Ukrainian Parliament officially designated the famine of 1931-33, which killed 5 to 7 million Ukrainians, during Stalin’s rule, a genocide. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Ukraine Militias Warn Of Anti-Kiev Coup
The burly man with the close-cropped silver hair and his two companions ask not to be identified too closely when they talk to me in some dowdy offices near an ancient monastery overlooking the Dnieper River. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
