On 8 November in Brussels, the European Commission (EC, the EU’s executive body) adopted a long-anticipated but still interim decision regarding the start of accession negotiations with the EU.
Why is it referred to as an “interim” decision? Whe…
The village of Levkovychi is 20 km away from Chernihiv, a city in the north of Ukraine. Two memorials stand in the centre of the village. One is to the fallen defenders of the Second World War. The other memorial is to four of the village’s residents w…
The United States currently is forced to send “smaller aid packages to Ukraine in order to stretch out support, given a stalemate in Congress over providing funding for Ukraine”, according to a statement by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pier…
American Joe Lindsley, daily war correspondent on Chicago’s WGN Radio, and Ukrainian Alina Poliakova, managing editor of the English edition of Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth), discuss the importance of free speech and the role of a free press in Uk…
A new conflict is brewing between Ukraine and Poland. This time it is about freight transport.
Polish carriers are threatening to block all border crossings with Ukraine from 3 November due to excessive competition after the liberalisation of internat…
“We were not born for war. We were born with a sense of freedom and justice” – the phrase of each of the four Ukrainian soldiers begins their story. Andriana, Roman, Ihor and Petro came to the United States of America and during the week met with local…
“First of all, Elon Musk, his company SpaceX, certainly helped Ukraine a lot when it turned on Starlink in Ukraine and sent these communication terminals there. So people could still stay in touch with each other and so on. But since then, Elon Musk ha…
Taras Byk’s special mission is the breakup of the Russian Federation, a project that doesn’t seem so far-fetched after the Prigozhin mutiny. A civil society activist and political strategist, he says that Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution, in which he partic…
The sanctions are working, but Russia has adapted to them. How is the Russian economy doing after 20 months of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine?
Ukraine’s Western allies have imposed severe restrictions on Russia’s economy since the beginning…
In the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ashot Galstian traded his Kyiv bartending career for life in the Donbas war zone. Amid shelling, he rushes wounded warriors away from the front, while his friend Nastia, a popular singer-turned-medic tends t…