Nov. 15, 2019
Major international media outlets spread false news about the renaming of a Ukrainian street after a Nazi. On Nov. 13 Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, tweeted “A street
Nov. 8, 2019
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has continued his tradition of talking to the public through videos filmed while he’s driving his Tesla electric car in Kyiv. On Nov. 7, the president of Ukraine
Sep. 17, 2019
If German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier read Ukrainian, he would be surprised how often he is mentioned by local media. Their interest is not in Steinmeier himself, but in a peace initiative beari
Sep. 7, 2019
KYIV/MOSCOW – Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, jailed in Russia, is among 35 Ukrainians who will be transferred from Moscow to Kyiv as part of a prisoner exchanges on Sept. 7, his lawyer said. Read m
Aug. 30, 2019
As Ukrainian authorities hope to revive peace talks with Russia, the death toll for Ukrainian troops killed in action keeps growing. Since the start of the year, at least 72 Ukrainian soldiers – 29 of
Aug. 16, 2019
Editor’s Note: This story is part of a special project by the Kyiv Post, “Dying for Truth,” an online database and series of stories documenting violence against journalists in Ukraine’s 28 years of i
Aug. 7, 2019
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, during which he informed about the deaths of four Ukrainian soldiers as a result of shel
Jul. 21, 2019
This Election Day live blog stopped updating. For the election results, see: Latest updates on parliamentary vote count Snap parliamentary elections took place in Ukraine on July 21. Ukrainians were
Jun. 27, 2019
Ukraine does not need mediators for exchanging and liberating captives in Donbas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. “I’d like to say once again: never in my life have I talked with Mr. Medv
Apr. 21, 2019
On April 21, the final round of the presidential election is taking place in Ukraine. Ukrainians are casting their votes either for incumbent President Petro Poroshenko or comedian actor Volodymyr Zel
Jan. 21, 2019
Ukraine remembers those who died in the Holocaust, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine has said. “Ukraine as a nation, which suffered from the Holodomor (famine) of 1932-1933, when millions of Ukrai
Jan. 18, 2019
The Gulag, the system of concentration camps through which the Soviet Union carried out murderous political repression, is something many Russians and Ukrainians would rather forget. But while the reg
Dec. 3, 2018
The status of Ukrainian sailors as prisoners of war, according to the Geneva Convention, does not allow exchanging them for criminals, Liudmyla Denisova, Verkhovna Rada’s Commissioner for Human Rights
Aug. 17, 2018
This story has been updated to include comments from Yegor Firsov. A Russian television channel has aired an interview with kidnapped journalist Stanislav Aseev, in which he confesses to working for U
Aug. 10, 2018
As Ukraine prepares to mark in late August the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Ilovaisk, the bloodiest episode of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission i
Jun. 15, 2018
As the FIFA World Cup football competition begins in Russia, internationally acclaimed U.S. horror writer Stephen King has joined the list of famous people urging Russia to release the Ukrainian filmm
Apr. 24, 2018
Dzmitry Halko, a Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist, was arrested by Belarusian authorities when crossing the border into Belarus from the Ukrainian city of Lviv and faces jail in Belarus, his Ukrainian
Dec. 27, 2017
In the first prisoners of war exchange in over a year, 74 of 168 Ukrainian soldiers having been held in captivity in the Russian-controlled Donbas are coming home. Ukraine and Russian-backed separatis
Aug. 6, 2017
The Kyiv-based Crimean Department of the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine opened a criminal investigation against all three participants of the German electronic band Scooter for illegal border crossing
Mar. 14, 2017
Ukraine’s government delivered a blow to plans to disrupt trade between Ukraine and Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine: Law enforcement agencies broke up an activists’ blockade of a railway line on M