Dear Editor: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was one of the most heroic formations in Ukrainian history. It was formed in the middle of the Second World War to fight off the Nazi invaders in Western Ukraine. That specific anti-Nazi…
A Brownshirt In Their Midst
Lubomyr Luciuk Sept 13, 2026 On 10 September 2026, Grzegorz Braun, a Member of the European Parliament, took a hammer to a monument commemorating members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the village of Białystok in Poland’s Lublin voivodeship….
Battle for Belarus
September 10, 2026 DIANE FRANCIS Belarus is perched atop Ukraine, and the two countries are ethnically and historically entwined. Their people are East Slavic, as are Russians, but they were part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for centuries, which made them…
A Tale Of Two Cities
by Lubomyr Luciuk The old man in the Kremlin has told those around him that he’d be hanged if he stopped his war against Ukraine and Ukrainians. So when America’s “peace envoys” (sic!) came to bow before this wanna-be “Tsar…
This is the history that Vladimir Putin wants us to forget
Marcus Kolga August 21, 2026 The Globe and Mail Ever since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has justified its unprovoked invasion as a “special military operation” to “de-Nazify” a democratic country led by…
Here Comes The Sun
Lubomyr Luciuk August 12, 2026 The Atlanta Hotel was an ordinary place — a respectable setting for a meeting. Colonel Yevhen Konovalets had some doubts about the man he was meeting, but went anyway. His commitment to Ukraine outweighed…
War Crimes
Askold Lozynskyj It seems that every Russian aerial attack on Ukrainian territory that takes place daily constitutes a war crime simply because the target almost invariably is a civilian structure: a hospital, maternity ward, even a school, and mostly a…
If Other Nations Get to Choose Their Heroes, Why Not Ukraine?
Every nation chooses its heroes. Why, then, is Ukraine expected to seek the approval of others before honouring its own? Lubomyr Luciuk July 24, 2026 Ukraine’s plan to build a National Pantheon has drawn sharp criticism abroad. Some argue that…
On Tyranny — Special 250th Edition
On the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate a rebellion. Our official commemorations, organized by the White House, will instead. We are told today, by the men who would humiliate us, that America was founded in a spirit of innocence, that…
Ukraine’s Game-Changer
June 29, 2026 DIANE FRANCIS On June 25, Ukraine launched a 40-day campaign to bombard Russia and end the war. Kyiv is also crushing Crimea and has bullied Belarus. But the biggest development is that Ukraine is also about to…
The uncomfortable calculus for the Belarusian dictator
On June 19, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave Alexander Lukashenko one week to remove communications equipment on Belarusian territory that Russia has been using to guide drone strikes against Ukrainian civilians. “If he doesn’t do it, we will,” Zelenskyy said. It…