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…
Oleksandr Usyk: The Ukrainian champion who can hold his breath longer than your average dolphin
While most boxers stick to skipping rope and sparring, the heavyweight champion casually holds his breath for 4 minutes and 40 seconds—between winning multimillion-dollar fights and rethinking what it takes to be a true champion. Yevheniia Martyniuk December 24, 2024…
Is Russia winning the war?
THE TIMES Is Russia winning the war? ‘Meat grinder’ leaves Ukraine on brink Western allies have provided Storm Shadow missiles in a bid to stem the advance that has left Ukraine at its most vulnerable since the start of the…
The Russian Orthodox Church
Askold Lozynskyj Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has made much of Russian Orthodoxy as a moral paragon, while intentionally omitting in his alternative history that Christianity came to Russia from Kyiv and that the Muscovy Patriarchate was established at gunpoint…
Putin Isn’t Fighting for Land in Ukraine
And Biden has mere weeks to give the Ukrainians the resources they need to fight. Anne Applebaum November 12, 2024 The Atlantic Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian targets have increased in frequency in the week since…
What will a Trump-led peace deal with Russia look like?
Putin’s nuclear sabre-rattling has a clear eye on future talks, and an increasingly war-weary Ukraine may be ready to sit down too Mark Urban Saturday November 23 2024, 6.00pm GMT, The Sunday Times It’s felt like a week on the…
Fighters against "fascists" and Ukraine: How Russia’s influence network operates in Canada
12 November 2024 Anastasiya Ringis, European Pravda At the end of October, Canadian parliamentarians convened a Standing Committee on Public Safety Security and Defence Committee session to discuss the impact of Russian disinformation on Canada’s information landscape. While testimonies…
A Request and Challenge to President-Elect Trump: The Case for Ukraine’s NATO Membership
Askold S. Lozynskyj November 7, 2024 According to Politico, seven NATO member countries remain hesitant to extend a membership invitation to Ukraine. Citing four anonymous U.S. and NATO officials and diplomats, Politico names the United States, Germany, Spain, Belgium,…
SOMETHING FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS
Ukraine’s blood and the West’s heedless “mush” The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens in his article “The World That Awaits the Next President” (NYT, 7 August 2024, p. A23) wrote: […] … Moscow seems to have pressed…
“Russia will arm the Houthis…”
by Askold S. Lozynskyj “The New York Times” reported that Russia has been providing small arms to the Houthis. American officials including Secretary Austin during his recent visit to Ukraine indicated that according to American military intelligence Russia is…
BRICS Summit: Kremlin’s ‘Anti-Colonialism’ and Russia’s Colonized Nations
The Federal relations expert Harun (Vadim) Sidorov believes that the BRICS summit held in Kazan is directly related to the decolonization agenda and is “an illustration of the different attitudes of the Kremlin and its opponents towards it.” According to…