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Admiral Ihor Voronchenko, commander of Ukraine’s Navy and coastal defenses, came to Washington two weeks ago to round up support for Ukraine’s naval hardware needs and to explain Ukraine’s side of the Kerch crisis. The Kerch crisis has placed Ukraine in a difficult quandary: it does not have the naval forces to directly challenge Russia’s control of the Kerch Strait, and it will take decades for Ukraine to bolster its naval capabilities, according to the strategy that Admiral Voronchenko laid out in a recent document titled “Strategy for Naval Military Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine – 2035.” 

The death of Ukrainian activist Kateryna Handzyuk on her hospital bed on November 4 spurred nationwide outrage. Hundreds rallied all over the country, demanding an effective investigation into the acid attack which after three months of attempts at treatment took the life of the 33-year old Kherson activist and city official, and 73 human rights organizations signed a collective appeal calling upon Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, “who sabotaged the law enforcement reform in Ukraine,” to resign.

In 2016, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation mandating the teaching of genocide in all public schools in the state…...

The government of Ukraine has designated 2018 as “Ukrainian Genocide Remembrance Year.” The emphasis during this year’s commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the Genocide-Famine Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine is for the Ukrainian nation, its diaspora and freedom-loving people throughout the world, including here in the vast American heartland, to preserve the memory of the approximate 10,000,000 victims of this horrific event that will forever live in infamy. 

KINGSTON, Ontario – Concerned over the deterioration of the internee cemetery at Spirit Lake, Quebec, Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk of the…...

LA FERME, Quebec – J. Michael Doyon, the 29th lieutenant governor of Quebec, will visit Spirit Lake Internment Interpretative Center…...

As part of a year-long worldwide commemoration of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor, the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor…...

Welcome to the 21st century – where everything (or almost everything) is online and just a click away. In such…...

PHILADELPHIA – During the Christmas holidays of 2017-2018, the Philadelphia-based United Ukrainian American Relief Committee (UUARC), with the help of…...

In these challenging times, the world often seems cruel and unfair, and too often we feel that we have no…...

2017 marked the 70th anniversary of Operation Vistula (or Akcja Wisla), the forced resettlement by the Polish communist government of the Ukrainian minority from the southeastern provinces of post-war Poland, to the so-called Recovered Territories in the west of the country.

During this program, over 140,000 ethnic Ukrainians were uprooted from their ancestral lands in the regions of Kholmshchyna, Pidliashia, Nadsiannia, Boykivshchyna and Lemkivshchyna, and forced to abandon their homes, which they inhabited for generations. This program was a continuation of the state-run ethnic cleansing that started with the 1944-1946 population exchanges between Communist Poland and Soviet Ukraine, and were intended to remove all of the ethnic Ukrainians who found themselves to the “wrong” side of the newly drawn border between the two countries called the Curzon line.

Organized by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation on November 8-9, the conference “Reflections on a Ravaged Century” at the…...