Zelenskiy has embarked on his first trips to France and Germany as head of state, starting with a visit to Paris on June 17 in which he met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy intends to keep Ukraine "on the path of European and Euro-Atlantic integration." He also said he is ready to negotiate with Russia to end the war in Eastern Ukraine

How Poland became the biggest market for Ukrainian goods

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has picked as a top security chief a man who Reuters has reported as having ties with tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky, an appointment that underscores links between the two

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

Electrical coops are the way to really get oligarchs out of the power sector

There are limits to the possible in domestic politics and Volodymyr Zelenskiy should not stretch them

Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has announced his administration - and several positions have gone to his former TV colleagues

Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky announced a snap parliamentary election during his swearing-in as Ukraine's new president

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

Volodymyr Zelenskiy won the election but he’s still being mysterious about his team, promising “new faces.” This is nothing new in Ukraine’s history, and new hasn’t always meant better

How current and the next state leaders use the timeout

The president’s lawyer wants Ukrainian officials to investigate a call Joe Biden made about corruption

Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, plans to travel to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, in coming days

What’s making the hryvnia stronger and what’s likely to happen further on

Ukraine's embassy wrote that a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider reached out in 2016 seeking dirt on President Trump's campaign

Danyliuk is responsible for international relations, economics, financial and banking policies, while Riaboshapka – for law enforcement oversight and anti-corruption policies

Ukraine needs strong policy of fighting the poverty

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday that makes it easier for those living in eastern Ukraine's separatist territories to access a Russian passport

Why economic decline of the liberated parts of the Donbas is dangerous

When Russian-backed separatists began their offensive in eastern Ukraine in spring 2014, the city of Sloviansk was the first one they took over. After several months, it was liberated, but it keeps its memory as the place where Russia’s war in eastern Ukraine, which killed over 13,000 people, started

What will Ukraine rely on after any result of the election?

Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country's presidential election

Ukrainians cast ballots Sunday in a presidential runoff which had the incumbent struggling to fend off a strong challenge by a comedian who denounces corruption and plays the role of president in a TV sitcom

How Donbas elected president after almost a decade break

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

A Ukrainian court on Thursday ruled that the 2016 nationalization of a major bank owned by a tycoon was illegal, sending shockwaves through the country’s financial community

Several autonomous subversive and terrorist units have been deployed in Ukraine from the Russian Federation and the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" since the beginning of 2017

Why the development of political marketing can make democracy in Ukraine a threat to national security

Armed police opened fire on a car as it was driven at them having just "deliberately rammed" the Ukrainian ambassador's official vehicle in London on Saturday morning

In a popular TV series, a fictional Ukrainian president gets so drunk at a dinner with the head of the International Monetary Fund that he throws her into a swimming pool

The Ukrainian economy is successfully integrating with the European Union, just one of many positive aspects of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which came into effect in September 2017 and is now offering real result

Ukrainian military can now destroy any enemy ship within a radius of 300 kilometers

What system they are trying to restore in Russia today

The European Parliament has accused the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) of whitewashing a press release about the Ukrainian presidential election by watering down critical wording about Russia

What the structure of investments in the economy of Ukraine signals about

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

A comedian with no political experience has won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections, early results indicate

The commander of a NATO maritime group said Dutch, Spanish, Canadian, Turkish, Romanian and Bulgarian frigates entered the Black Sea on Thursday

How the current and former leadership of the self-declared republics in occupied Donbas see the upcoming elections for President of Ukraine

Electoral preferences according to the map

Why we cannot allow the newly introduced electricity trade market to turn into a handy tool of concealing deep problems in the sector?

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

Why government oversight over big business is just as important as privatization

A French navy warship has been docked in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa since March 23, making it the second NATO ship to visit Ukraine since the beginning of this year

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

What is unique about Ukrainian migration and how it impacts national identity

One Ukrainian serviceman died today in the Donbas conflict zone

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

How Yevhen Konovalets managed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists as it turned to follow the course of Halychyna youth

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

What are the main candidates for president proposing in their platforms and how have these changed from what they proposed five years ago

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

Why Ukraine’s parties are not social lifts and will never be, so unless they change fundamentally

The fighters practiced with multiple launch rocket systems

Parliament and Ukrainian presidential election: action and reaction

A clash was with far-right demonstrators who disrupted a campaign appearance of President Petro Poroshenko

He is seen as a valuable witness under the program launched by the Security Service of Ukraine titled 'Someone's Waiting for You Back Home"

How the idea of Ukraine crossed imperial borders from East to West

Ukrainian President has proposed fresh legislation to fight corruption, a move that raised concerns the country is backtracking in the battle against corruption

The conditions of test flights of the Spectator-M1 were close to the combat ones

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

The political novice's popularity with voters has left pundits scratching their heads — and some critics fearing he's biting off more than he can chew

Why Ukrainians think the situation in their country is worse than it really is and what can be done about this

Ukraine and India discussed the promotion of the newest Ukrainian An-132 aircraft to the Indian market, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has reported

Poroshenko and Tymoshenko's chances to make it to the second round are almost equal, experts say

What should lie at the foundation of Ukraine’s integration into a united Europe so that later on there isn’t an Ukrexit?

The Security Service of Ukraine believes that Ukrainian citizens recruited by Russian intelligence services are planning to attack 20 churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

The Ukrainian Week talked with Acting U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on the act of aggression in the Kerch Strait and the military assistance to Ukraine.

A court in Kyiv is expected to consider a request from Ukrainian prosecutors to detain a high-ranking regional official suspected of organizing the killing of anticorruption activist Kateryna Handzyuk last year

Yulia Tymoshenko's controversial comments come at a time when the former Ukrainian prime minister's ratings appear to be suffering

What unreasonable public expectations regarding the EU might get in the way of Ukraine’s eurointegration?

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

What model of European integration Ukraine needs

The CEC is to officially announce the final registered list of candidates no later than February 9

What security challenges face Ukraine in the upcoming year?

What should Ukraine’s policy priorities be for the next few years?

The Azov was withdrawn from Mariupol in the summer of 2016

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

What test Ukraine has to pass to get into NATO and what could get in the way

What challenges will the growth of labor migration to EU countries present Ukraine?

He also tried to hire local residents for participation in illegal armed formations in Donbas

Russia has developed three scenarios

On the prospeсts of Ukraine’s economy in 2019

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

Some issues and the key instrument of Ukraine’s integration with NATO

During the Discussion Club “Open World” organised by Open Ukraine Foundation The Ukrainian Week talks with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ukraine on the conflict in Syria, the free trade between our countries and business in the conditions of uncertain security situation

Authorities in Ukraine say they have detained a journalist accused of undermining the country’s territorial integrity

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

Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, two Ukrainian oligarchs who had paid Paul Manafort for years for his political work in their country, were the intended recipients of the American polling data

From February 2019, customers will be able to start using some Ukrainian ATMs and bank terminals for dollar and euro transactions

How different is the current campaign in terms of political slogans and promises compared to 2014?

In addition, Raiffeisen Bank Aval was fined UAH 450,000 ($16,393)

Apart from the desire for power, what drives presidential candidates to play with voters and how dangerous is this for Ukraine?

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

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