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It’s still not a war, but maybe it’s progress. Ukraine formally dropped its “anti-terrorist operation” misnomer, or ATO, in describing Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014. But the nation’s leaders
Feb. 20, 2018
Since Russia launched its war against Ukraine in 2014, seizing the Crimean peninsula and part of the eastern Donbas, Russian banks and other businesses have been under pressure. They have faced regula
Feb. 20, 2018
Ukrainian border guards have refused entry to Ukraine for a Russian citizen, a member of the Russian bikers’ association and Russia’s Night Wolves motorcycle club, the press office of the Ukrainian St
Feb. 20, 2018
Inform Napalm, an international open-source intelligence community, says it has identified the Russian officer who planned a failed assault on Feb. 7 against U.S. and U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syr
Feb. 19, 2018
A member of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences has received a prestigious, $100,000 mathematics award from an Israeli foundation this week. Ukrainian-American Vladimir Drinfeld, 64, and his academ
Feb. 18, 2018
Representatives from several Ukrainian nationalist organizations on Saturday removed a Russian flag from the Kyiv office building of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Comp
Feb. 17, 2018
Anastasia Naumenko will be a mother by the end of February. Naumenko is only 13 years old, and has not even finished the eighth grade. She only found out she was expecting a child six months into her
Feb. 16, 2018
The United States government has donated 2,500 AN/PVS-14 night-vision monoculars worth $5.8 million as free military aid to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, the Ukrainian General Staff reported on Feb. 14. Ear
Feb. 14, 2018
Editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Strana.ua Ihor Huzhva, who fled to Vienna in early 2018, has been put on the wanted list. This was authorized by Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky district court on Februar
Feb. 13, 2018
The National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA: PBC) has decided not to broadcast matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup to be played in Russia this summer, UA:PBC Chairman Zurab Alasania said in
Feb. 12, 2018
Former Odesa Oblast Governor and ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been deported to Poland, a State Border Service spokesman said on the evening of Feb. 12. Saakashvili was arrested in a d
Feb. 12, 2018
Completely surrounded by Russian and separatist forces, Ukrainian paratroopers defended Luhansk Airport from early April 2014 to early September 2014. In July, Ukrainian troops took over one transport
Feb. 10, 2018
One of Ukraine’s top investment funds has blurred the lines between public service and private benefit, making millions of dollars along the way. With more than $500 million under management, Investme
Feb. 9, 2018
Kyiv city council voted on Feb. 8 to rename Petrivka, a major station of Kyiv metro, to Pochaina. The step comes in line with the decommunization policy introduced in 2015 that scraps Soviet names of
Feb. 8, 2018
86 civilians died in the battle actions in Donbas in 2017. Alexander Hug, Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine said this in the interview for Deutche Welle. “In 2017,
Feb. 8, 2018
Ukraine has Hr 306 billion ($10.9 billion) in debts to pay off this year, the Finance Ministry announced in a document released last week. The total sum of $10.9 billion – which includes $4 billion in
Feb. 5, 2018