Section: The Ukrainian Weekly (USA)
High-ranking Yanukovych associate is arrested
Among charges: sponsoring terrorist organization and stoking separatism KYIV – Ukraine’s authorities on July 30 detained Oleksandr Yefremov, an associate of Viktor Yanukovych. He is the highest ranking associate of the disgraced ex-president to have been arrested to date. Two days later, Kyiv’s Pechersk District Court ruled that the...
U.S. diplomats accuse Russia of undermining Ukraine peace plan
Two top U.S. diplomats working to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine have accused Russia of continuing to supply separatist fighters with fuel and weapons and creating a “deteriorating security situation” in the region that is as bad as it was a year ago. Ambassador Daniel Baer, head of the U.S. mission to the Organization […] …read...
Trump says he’d consider recognizing Crimea as part of Russia
PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has outraged Ukrainian Americans, and others, with his recent comments indicating that he would consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. “I’m going to take a look at it,” Mr. Trump said in an interview broadcast on July 31 on the...
Moscow’s Donbas ‘curators’ seek to quell panic among soldiers in separatist Donetsk
One of the darkest parts of the murky history of Moscow’s “hybrid” war in Ukraine is the role of Russian “curators” – the Russian advisors who direct the activities of the military and civilian structures in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk peoples’ republics (DPR, LPR) on the basis of orders they receive directly from the […]...
UCCA statement on platforms of U.S. political parties
The statement below was released by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America on July 21. The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the nation’s largest representation of over 1 million Ukrainians in America, continually monitors positions and statements made throughout every election cycle concerning U.S. foreign policy and the...
The presidential election: Can we make a difference?
Dear Editor: For the record I do not like Hillary Clinton and I have voted for the Republican presidential ticket since I could vote. I do care about social and economic issues affecting every American, but given the war in Ukraine, there is only one issue that we as Ukrainian Americans must focus on: Ukraine. […] …read more Source: The...
A tale of two platforms
America’s two political parties ended their conventions in July and published their party platforms. Was Ukraine mentioned? I checked. The DNC platform read: “Russia is engaging in destabilizing actions along its borders, violating Ukraine’s sovereignty and attempting to recreate spheres of influence that undermine American...
Hillary Clinton, Ukraine and other things
In June, I wrote about the Trump campaign and its disturbing links to Russian President Vladimir Putin and disgraced Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Since then, lots of other articles have appeared on the same topic: “Putin’s Puppet,” Slate; “Hillary Clinton is Running Against Vladimir Putin,” The Atlantic; “Trump Campaign Guts GOP...
Colleagues in Ukraine bid farewell to acclaimed journalist Pavel Sheremet
KYIV – The method that assassins used to kill acclaimed journalist Pavel Sheremet on July 20 was at once unsettling and meant to intimidate journalists in Ukraine, his friends and colleagues said. A car bomb that remotely detonated underneath the driver’s seat in which the 44-year-old Minsk-born journalist and radio host was sitting became...
Controversial UOC-MP procession enters Kyiv under tight security
KYIV – Thousands of Orthodox believers who participated in a controversial religious procession organized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) gathered in Kyiv on July 27 to mark the 1,028th anniversary of Kyivan Rus’s acceptance of Christianity. Some Ukrainian officials and activists have said the marches are a...
