Section: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and USA (Canada)
Canadian doctors in Ukraine: Medical team on mission to help those injured in violent conflict
Dr. Oleh Antonyshyn hauls two large black cases onto a luggage cart at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. He unzips one of them to reveal an assortment of medical devices and surgeon’s tools. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
With Borscht And Rifle Scopes, Volunteers Power Ukraine Forces
In a cramped kitchen that smelled strongly of cabbage and beets, a small army of women labored into the night, preparing what would become dried borscht to supply Ukrainian soldiers in the field. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Even among the sordid histories of Eastern Europe, Ukraine is particularly tragic
In just the 20th century, it was starved by Stalin, decimated by Hitler, subjected to seventy years of incompetent Soviet rule, looted by its own government and, most recently, invaded by Putin. Ukraine’s situation today remains desperate. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Patriotic Photo
Patriotic Photo …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Forces loyal to Kiev are digging in to withstand an anticipated onslaught from separatist rebels
The earth from the trenches is freshly dug and the concrete of the newly-installed pillbox blemishless. The metal cage that protects it from rocket-propelled grenades is already covered in a thick layer of ice. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Beyonce for Ukraine? (Photo)
Beyonce for Ukraine? …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
“ATO” Heroes
“ATO” Heroes …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Shadow Currency Trade Points To New Ukraine Financial Crisis
A stone’s throw from this weekend’s candlelight vigils in Kiev marking a year since the start of the demonstrations that toppled Viktor Yanukovich as president, a different kind of Ukrainian was out on the street: the black market currency traders. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
Back In The USSR
They shuffled in the hallway wrapped up to withstand the cold, waiting to register documents with the health authorities of the separatist authorities in the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic, and as they waited they shared whispered complaints about their new… …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
U.S. Should Look At Giving Weapons To Ukraine – Top U.S. Official
U.S. President Barack Obama’s choice to fill the number two spot at the State Department, Anthony Blinken, spoke favourably on Wednesday about the possibility of providing weapons to Ukraine, which is grappling with pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada and...
