Putin has forced Ukrainians to make a choice. Will they finally take a stand?

Ukraine has also recalled Russia must implement its obligations under the Minsk Agreements

Seventeen members of a far-right group have been detained for attacking the headquarters of Ukraine’s largest pro-Russia political party in Kyiv

Ukraine's memorandum in the case of the seizure of Ukrainian sailors and ships in the Black Sea in November 2018 has been signed and will be submitted to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on Friday, May 22

The global outreach of Russia’s manipulation of international and domestic law

Despite many official pronouncements, industry in the liberated Donbas is in its death throes

Russian-Ukrainian relations, increasingly tense since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, plummeted to a new low after Russia’s forcible absorption of the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and subsequent invasion of Donbas

What crimes Russia has committed during the occupation of Crimea and is still committing on the peninsula

What is Ukraine’s place in the rhetoric of Russian media and how to decipher their hidden messages?

Western media often repeats propaganda from Russia. Why is this?

How disappointment in Volodymyr Zelenskiy will help pro-Russian forces and how they are evolving

The self-proclaimed republics in occupied Donbas are changing their rhetoric about returning to Ukraine and are more actively imposing the attributes of a statelet...

The strategic winners and losers at Normandy

Who’s to party in 2020 – the Euro-Atlantic community, Ukraine and Georgia, or Russia?

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian chargé d’affaires ad interim in Kyiv on Monday and expressed protest over the detention of four Ukrainian fishermen

Surviving at the helm of Russia while making its international crimes legal

During the 3rd Lviv Security Forum The Ukrainian Week met with Kari Liuhto, professor and director of the Pan-European Institute at Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku (Finland) to discuss Russian economic war against Europe, toxic investments and nature of Russian oligarchs

As Zelensky mentions pact that carved up Poland and started World War II, Putin’s spokesperson claims that is ‘erroneous and offensive’

During the 3rd Lviv Security Forum, the director of German Marshall Fund's office in Ankara discussed the current state of relations between Turkey, USA, and Russia and perspectives of Ukraine-Turkey dialogue

What can Ukraine offer for the release of the remaining prisoners

What the Russian authorities can do to preserve the current regime

Ukraine president says exchange should take place on Sunday but details of the planned swap are scarce

During the 29th Economic Forum in Krynica-Zdrój (Poland) The Ukrainian Week talked with Robert Brinkley, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Ukraine Forum, Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House about perspectives of Ukrainian relations with West and Russia

Ukrainian officials have opened a criminal investigation after a passenger train from Russia arrived in Crimea via a new Russian-built bridge, arguing that the train illegally carried people across the Ukrainian border

As American hegemony wanes, America’s regional alliances unravel

Russian and Ukrainian representatives have met in Berlin for "very intense negotiations" on the current 10-year gas agreement due to expire in two weeks. However, the terms of the deal are not yet clear

The EU confirms its support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity

What kinds of security eventualities is Ukraine prepared for?

A Ukrainian journalist convicted in Russia of spying and jailed for three years has described how he created paintings of cathedrals, lighthouses and soothing landscapes as a form of psychological therapy during his imprisonment

What criteria should be used to evaluate strategies for the reintegration of the Donbas

Russia has returned three navy boats to Ukraine almost a year after they were seized in the Black Sea off the Crimean Peninsula, officials say

A court hearing in Poland on whether to extradite a Ukrainian veteran of the ongoing Donbas conflict and member of a Ukrainian nationalist group is expected to begin by Nov. 12

Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed rebels began withdrawing from a village in the disputed Donbas region on Saturday, one of a series of measures that could pave the way for a summit between Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany

In international relations, Ukraine keeps reacting to foreign initiatives rather than coming up with its own

OSCE monitors used drones to verify the disengagement

State department aide makes revelation in testimony, while Russia envoy nominee John Sullivan grilled at confirmation hearing

What was overlooked during the return of Ukraine’s kidnapped sailors and political hostages from Russia

About Ukraine’s prisoners who left jail early and ended up in Moscow

Hundreds of Ukrainians have protested after President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had backed an agreement that would bring elections to territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists.

Adventures of signing the Ukrainian-Russian Treaty of friendship, cooperation and partnership

U.S. special envoy to Ukraine resigns a day after whistleblower complaint was released

Open supporters of integration with Russia are being persecuted on the occupied Donbas

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