Roots of Moscow’s imperialist policy in Ukraine and Ukrainians’ participation in the creation of imperial Russia

82 mm mines hit Novotoshkivske and Mayorske

Iran’s hybrid expansionism in the Middle East, the ‘Shi’a axis’ and Russia: from soft power competition to hard confrontation with the US

How the Russian-Ukrainian exchange of prisoners was in question

Ukraine and Russia are preparing their first-ever big prisoner exchange since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014

Since midnight, Russian mercenaries have already opened fire once

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said the United States will continue to support Ukraine in the country's conflict with Russia and its right to full territorial integrity

The organization offered Trump to see first-hand the consequences of the Russian actions by visiting Ukraine in the coming months

The Ukrainian Week talked with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations on prospects for the release of Ukrainian prisoners, the specifics of negotiations with the Russia and options for resolving the conflict in the Donbas

What the new government’s initiatives to lift the blockade from the occupied Donbas actually mean

How Ukraine has played soft with Russia in preparing for a gas clash next year

Illegal armed groups recently violated the ceasefire in the Azov area, shelling the positions of Ukrainian marines

What does Ukraine have to offer against the Russian myth of “the glorious victory of Russian military power”?

Why it is dangerous to neglect the topic of war and what the mission of the media community should be

For participation in illegal armed formation, assisting Russia's occupation of Crimea

How President Zelenskiy’s choice of staff will affect the cause of political prisoners

The U.S. called on Russia to release jailed Ukrainian sailors and enable a prisoner exchange, U.S. State Department Special Representative Kurt Volker told reporters in Kyiv

Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova told Hromadske media outlet in the town of Shchastia during the transfer of Ukrainian prisoners from the occupied Luhansk region

The press center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported

The U.S. "continues to strongly condemn Russia's dangerous naval assault on the Ukrainian Navy and the illegal detainment 24 Ukrainian sailors," legislators say

Vasiliy Nebenzya reacted to the U.S. diplomat's concern about the status of languages of national minorities in the occupied peninsula

On pacifism as a servant of the aggressor

Initiatives to return to Ukraine as autonomy have intensified in the occupied Donbas

The Russian destroyer Smetlivy has reportedly entered the area closed for navigation

The Ukraine-Russia union treaty of 1920

Canadian official dismisses claim by Ukrainian president that Canada will supply armoured vehicles

The Russian side already tried to gather a council meeting on the law on Volodymyr Zelenskiy's inauguration day on May 20

The inquiry into the case of 24 Ukrainian sailors arrested following the Kerch Strait incident in fall 2018 has been practically concluded

Russian occupants attacked positions of Ukraine's government troops 15 times

Russia refuses to comply with the ITLOS ruling, insisting the international rules do not apply to the sailors' case

Russia-backed separatists from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region have released four Ukrainian citizens, who have been flown to the Belarusian capital, Minsk

Will Zelenskiy be in charge of previous regime’s political revenge?

The Ukrainian Week talked again with an attorney representing the families of those killed in the disaster of the Malaysian MH17 flight in a lawsuit against the Russian Federation in the European Court of Human Rights, on the evidence in this case, and on the possible consequences of the verdict for Russia

What likelihood of the pro-Russian forces returning to power is and where to expect the first strike from

Russian authorities have given out the first passports to residents of Ukraine's separatist regions, shrugging off international criticism. Kyiv said it would never recognize documents issued by the "aggressor country"

How are the Arctic Ocean, the Black and the Azov Seas interrelated in Russia’s strategic military thinking?

The distance between Joint Forces' positions and those of Russian occupation forces in certain areas is only a few hundred meters

The "grey zone" has shifted toward the village of Trudivske

Russian-led forces have continued to violate the ceasefire in Donbas since midnight until 12.00 on Tuesday

Ukraine says fresh clashes with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east have claimed the lives of two of its soldiers, raising to six the number of Ukrainian troops reported killed this week

The role of social networks in the events of 2014 and nowadays

Several hundred people marched on June 1 in downtown Kyiv to draw attention to more than 200 Ukrainians who have been illegally imprisoned in Russia, Russian-occupied Crimea and Russian-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts

During the 12th Kyiv Security Forum The Ukrainian Week met with the British historian and political scientist to discuss the electoral situation in Ukraine as well as the policy of deterring Russia

Russian authorities must release the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were captured last year after entering the Kerch Strait, a United Nations maritime tribunal has ruled

Reactions to Zelenskiy’s victory in Russia

An international tribunal has ordered Russia to "immediately" release 24 Ukrainian sailors and three naval ships it seized off Crimea in November

Why the Zelenskiy's team needs to be careful not to torpedo the processes of economic and political emancipation from Russia

During the 12th Kyiv Security Forum The Ukrainian Week met with the American publicist and researcher of Russian policy, Brian Whitmore, to discuss the future steps of Moscow in Ukraine and in the world, as well as details of the Kremlin's strategy for the West

Potential Russian courses of action in Venezuela based on the experience of Ukraine and Syria

Many locals who moved out of the occupied territories never return to challenge "court" decisions in fear of prosecution

Last November, Russia seized three Ukrainian navy ships and captured dozens of sailors, sparking outrage in Ukraine. The case is now being heard at a UN sea tribunal in Hamburg, but Russia has vowed not to show

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko stated this

How Russia’s policy of assimilation transformed over time

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is considering extending a scheme that makes it easier for Ukrainians to obtain Russian citizenship

Why sympathy with Russia is a threat for Ukraine and how it can be diminished

Russia-led forces mounted 12 attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, in the past day, no Ukrainian casualties have been reported, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) has said

The Ukrainian Week talked with an attorney representing the families of those killed in the disaster of the Malaysian MN17 flight in a lawsuit against the Russian Federation in the European Court of Human Rights, on the evidence in this case, and on the possible consequences of the verdict for Russia

The foreign ministers of the G7 countries have called on Russia to release Ukrainian seamen, who on November 25, 2018, were forcibly seized in the Kerch Strait area

What system they are trying to restore in Russia today

A Ukrainian soldier was injured as a result of the shelling

The female soldier, Yana Chernova, had "no chance of surviving in this hell," according to the Donbas Battalion commander

His relocation violates the Geneva Convention

Ukrainian voters residing in Russia will be able to vote in the presidential election only by travelling to another country, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said

Russia on Friday (Mar 22) convicted a "disabled" Ukrainian man on terrorism charges and sentenced him to six years in prison, prompting the European Union to call for his immediate release

The convoy was spotted in Russia's Rostov region

What makes it so hard to assess the impact of the Revolution of Dignity on Ukrainian society today

The EU demands that Russia release Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) sailors who were attacked and captured in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018, according to a press release prepared in connection with the imposition of sanctions against eight Russians because of these events

Warsaw urges Moscow to release Ukrainian sailors imprisoned in Russia, return Ukrainian vessels and guarantee freedom of navigation in the Kerch Strait

The investigation department of Russia’s Federal Security Service handed out orders on scheduling an expert psychiatric examination (a kind of forensic test) to two more captive Ukrainian sailors Vasyl Soroka and Viktor Bespalchenko

The rationale of Russia’s revisionist strategy against Ukraine, Belarus and the “near abroad”

How Russia is using foreigners to spark conflict in Zakarpattia

How true is it that trade with Russia is on the rise again and that is causing this?

Two invaders were killed and another four were injured in the past day, intelligence reports say

Ukraine has taken the extraordinary step of deporting a senior cleric of the Moscow-aligned Orthodox Church and stripping him of his citizenship

The death toll in the last 24 hours was the highest since the latest fragile truce entered force in December

What’s causing the socio-economic situation in occupied Donbas to get worse?

Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Gryb allowed to see the consul, but after the verdict, as Ukraine’s Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova said

Social and political implications of the emergence of independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Who benefits and who loses from US troops withdrawal from Syria

Russia-occupied Crimea’s Kerchensky city court during its hearing refused to release Volodymyr Balukh on parole

Moscow believes they have a right to send their observers to Ukraine

The Ukrainian side in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the settlement of the situation in Donbas has demanded that a joint meeting of the group and its humanitarian subgroup be held immediately to unblock the release of Ukrainian hostages and political prisoners

A court in Moscow ruled on Wednesday that four Ukrainian sailors seized by Russia last year off the coast of Crimea should be kept in pre-trial detention until April 24

What national unity hinges on and what, besides Russia, threatens Ukraine

How Moscow can respond to the provision of the tomos for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

During the second Lviv security forum The Ukrainian Week had spoken to Lithuanian expert on separatism and unrecognised entities to look for similarities and differences of Ukrainian conflict comparing to other countries.

Russia may hand over 24 Ukrainian navy sailors seized off the coast of Crimea as part of a prisoner swap deal with Ukraine later this year, the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper cited a highly-placed Russian diplomatic source

Bartholomew I signs the Tomos of Autocephaly, marking the formal independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul

How can Ukraine protect the seamen who were taken prisoner by Russia?

Russia has banned chocolate, beer and nappies made in Ukraine, in its latest economic sanctions on Kyiv

What are the military and informational dimensions of the attack in the Black Sea?

The leaders of Germany and France are pressing Russia to release Ukrainian sailors captured over a month ago in time for the new year and Orthodox Christmas

The latest task by their Russian curators was to create and further guide clandestine activities aimed at sabotage in the Ochakiv district

The mark of Russia in international political organizations

During the second Lviv security forum The Ukrainian Week had spoken to American expert on the term “Hybrid warfare”, Russian army and the possibilty of war between USA and China

Lawyers visiting wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war, seamen Andriy Eider and Andriy Artemenko, in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina facility

Ukrainian Orthodox leaders on Saturday approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected a leader to head the new church, officials said

On Ukraine’s first steps towards its national Orthodox Church

How religious are Ukrainian politicians?

Ukrianian President called the new law "part of our strategy towards fully breaking with the colonial past and reorientation towards Europe"