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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Lawyer: It will depend on the "political situation and the political will of the Kremlin"

Why is there lack of understanding of character of conflict between Russia and Western world

However, according to Marchuk, the Russian side does not accept such offers

Shipping traffic has resumed to and from Ukraine’s ports on the Sea of Azov following a standoff with Russia, a Ukrainian minister has said

Ukraine's president on Monday announced a partial call-up of reservists for training amid tensions with Russia

Ukraine will not allow Russian men aged 16-60 into the country following the imposition of martial law, Kyiv says

Ukraine has accused Russia of ramming one of its boats off the coast of the annexed Crimea, amid rising tensions

Since Belarus’ Paritetbank was not acceptable for the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

Volodymyr Balukh has suspended a months-long hunger strike pending his expected transfer to a prison in Russia

Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov has started writing a new script while serving his term in a Russian jail

These Ukrainians were captured from 2014 to 2018

Information confirming Rudkovsky’s guilt was obtained through joint investigative procedures conducted by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Interior Ministry

Hostilities in the Sea of Azov are heating up, and the U.S. is increasing its involvement

The operation itself took half an hour

The Russian military said on Monday (Sept 17) that the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from the arsenals of the Ukrainian army

Russian propaganda systemically lowers the number of officially recognized casualties on the part of Russian occupation forces in eastern Ukraine's warzone

After the hybrid war, time to deal with the hybrid independence

It is in Europe’s interests to prevent Ukraine from becoming a failed state and to contribute to its democratic normalisation

Europe won’t bear the cost or the risk for the defences it needs. That won’t change until Europeans are a lot more scared or angry than they are now—which may be too late

President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile, Akhmed Zakayev, talks to The Ukrainian Week about what Kadyrovites want in the Donbas, the December clashes in Grozny and Makhachkali as an extension of the Russo-Chechen war that has gone on with varying intensity for nearly 25 years now, the illusory friendship of Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and the coming of ISIL to the Northern Caucasus.

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is part of a broader, and more dangerous, confrontation with the West

François Heisbourg and Judy Dempsey comment on the leadership of the USA and Germany in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, delivery of weapons to Ukraine and the new world order

Opting for imports of coal and electricity from Russia on the background of the still existing gas and nuclear dependence makes Ukraine totally vulnerable to Kremlin's potential blackmail

Key legal aspects of the emergency situation imposed in Eastern Ukraine

For four days, the Russian "brothers" made preparations to shoot down Ukrainian troops near Ilovaysk

Western misperceptions on the Russo-Ukrainian war