Category: Ukrainian

Human Rights Watch Reports New Evidence of Ukrainian Use of Banned Landmines

WASHINGTON—Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday that it uncovered new evidence of the indiscriminate use by Ukrainian forces of banned anti-personnel landmines against Russian troops who invaded Ukraine in 2022. The group called on Ukraine’s government to follow through with a commitment made earlier in June not to employ such weapons, investigate their suspected…


House Oversight Chair Demands Suspicious Bank Records of Ukrainian Gas Company That Hired Hunter Biden

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) is demanding that the U.S. Treasury Department turn over any suspicious activity reports (SARs) it has relating to Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company on whose board President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden sat. On June 28, Comer sent a letter (pdf) to Biden’s Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, demanding…


Family Reunification for Ukrainians in Canada to Come Soon: Immigration Minister

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says he plans to announce a long-awaited program to grant permanent residency to Ukrainians with familial ties to Canada soon, but a similar program for other Ukrainians is still a ways away. Canada took the unusual step last year of offering temporary refuge to an unlimited number of Ukrainians fleeing the…


Big Tobacco Faces Big EU Counterfeit Problem

MADRID—Spanish police raided three clandestine tobacco factories early this year, seizing nearly 40 million euros ($44 million) worth of tobacco leaf and illicit cigarettes. At one, in the northern town of Alfaro, they found 10 Ukrainian workers, five of them war refugees, who’d been put to work with no contracts and scant pay, police said….


Netherlands Wants to Give Ukrainian Pilots F-16 Training as Soon as Possible

AMSTERDAM—The Netherlands wants to give Ukrainian pilots F-16 training as soon as possible, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said on Wednesday in a letter to parliament. The training would be coordinated with Belgium, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, and other countries could join, Ollongren added. On Tuesday, NATO’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said training Ukrainian pilots…


Putin Says Ukrainian Group Attacks Border Region, Kyiv Denies Russian ‘Provocation’

LONDON—President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia had been hit by a “terrorist attack” in the southern Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, and vowed to crush what he said was a Ukrainian sabotage group that had fired at civilians. Ukraine accused Russia of staging a false “provocation,” but also appeared to imply some form of operation…


Ukrainian Troops Holding Bakhmut Line Demand Weapons as World Powers Meet

NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine/MUNICH—Ukrainian soldiers fighting to hold off a Russian push on the small eastern city of Bakhmut pleaded for more weapons from the outside world as senior Western leaders met in Munich on Friday to assess the year-long war shaking Europe. “Give us more military equipment, more weapons, and we will deal with the…


Polish Officials Observe Training of Ukrainians on New Tanks

SWIETOSZOW, Poland—Poland’s president and defense minister met Monday with Polish and foreign instructors intensively training Ukrainian troops to operate the German-made Leopard 2 tanks that some European countries and Canada have offered Kyiv to help fight the Russian invasion. President Andrzej Duda and minister Mariusz Blaszczak also watched Leopard 2 training at a military base…


Ukrainian Groups Withdraw Court Challenge of Nixed Turbine Export to Russian Pipeline

A Ukrainian-Canadians group has withdrawn a court challenge of Ottawa’s decision to export gas turbines for a Russian pipeline after the federal government nixed the plan in December. The federal Liberals had approved export permits last July to allow a Montreal company to repair turbines for a natural gas pipeline operated by Russian state-owned energy…


Zelenskyy Fires Slew of Top Officials, Cites Need to Clean up Ukraine

KYIV—President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired a slew of senior officials on Tuesday in Ukraine’s biggest political shake-up of the war, saying he needed to clean up internal problems that were hurting the country. A long-running battle against corruption in Ukraine is taking on vital significance as Russia’s invasion has made Kyiv heavily reliant on Western support…