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KYIV – On May 4, 2014, Dmytro Tkachenko left his hometown of Donetsk for a one-day trip to Kyiv.
He took his laptop computer and no change of clothing.
It was a typical business trip. One that he often took on express trains that link the two cities. This time, he came to present survey findings of overwhelming pro-Ukrainian sentiment in the Donbas.
KYIV-BERDYANSK-MARIUPOL – The familiar sounds of reverberation from huge harbor cranes in the Azov Sea ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol are eerily absent.
From afar and up close, the dock-aligned cranes appear suspended as if under a magical spell.
KYIV – Tensions between the Kremlin and Kyiv further escalated during an open act of war on November 25 when Russian forces attacked three Ukrainian navy vessels in shared waters and took them into custody along with two dozen Ukrainian servicemen.
NEW YORK – Ukrainian Americans and their supporters came together at the landmark St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Saturday, November 17, for a solemn remembrance of the 85th anniversary of Ukraine’s genocide, the Holodomor of 1932-1933.
KYIV – As many of the world’s leaders met in Paris for ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I on November 11, trench warfare was still ravaging Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region in a bloody conflict begun when Russia invaded the country in 2014.
That same day and 1,860 miles east of the solemn event, Russia ensured that its appointed proxies in the occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts remained in place through what the U.S. said were “sham” regional elections.
KYIV – Angela Merkel’s fourth visit to Ukraine as Germany’s chancellor on November 1 coincided with bomb threats in the capital and Russia imposing more sanctions on the country.
The goal of her one-day visit was to discuss the Russia-fueled Donbas war and, in particular, discuss Ukraine’s reform policy.
KYIV – Perhaps the highlight of the Detroit-based Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus’s (UBC) centennial tour of Ukraine was the joint concert with the local National Bandurist Capella on October 22.
About 120 artists took to the stage that evening, showcasing Ukraine’s national musical instrument, which combines characteristics of the lute and harp, producing “a sound similar to a harpsichord but with a wider range and tone,” according to the UBC website.
KYIV – Ukraine has tapped new funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that could shore up its finances through 2019 while avoiding a liquidity crunch amid simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections taking place next year.
A new lending program was brokered on October 22 with the Washington-based lender worth $3.9 billion. It replaces a previously existing agreement (that would’ve expired in March 2019) worth more than four times as much that stalled in April 2017 because Kyiv wasn’t meeting reform benchmarks.
KYIV – The Russian Orthodox Church is severing its relationship with the spiritual authority of the Orthodox Christian world following a Synod, or assembly of church hierarchy, that was held in Minsk on October 15.
The decision could signal the widest rift in the religious world since the 1054 schism that divided western and eastern Christianity or the Reformation of 1517 when Roman Catholicism split into new Protestant divisions.
KYIV – Two suspected Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers who allegedly attempted an assassination of double Russian-British agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March also visited Ukraine and received their country’s highest state award in the latter half of 2014 as the Donbas war was heating up.