Kerch Strait Attack

UNIAN: Rada grants combatant status to sailors captured by Russia in Kerch Strait

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has granted a combatant status to sailors captured by Russia near the Kerch Strait in November 2018. Read …
UNIAN

2018: Russia imprisons sailors as murder of Kherson activist sparks outrage

2018 was largely a disturbing year with two big events dominating the news: Russians captured and imprisoned 23 Ukrainian sailors near annexed Crimea …
Askold Krushelnycky
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Olena Goncharova

UK lawmakers conclude visit to Ukraine’s ‘strangled’ Azov Sea

Two senior British members of parliament from the country’s governing Conservative party, both former secretaries of state, have concluded a four-day …
Jack Laurenson

Russia’s latest naval attack continues years of aggression in Black Sea

ODESA, Ukraine – Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian Navy ships in November may have come as a shock to many, but not for Ukrainian Navy and coast guard …
Veronika Melkozerova

Rada approves shoot-on-sight rules of engagement for Coast Guard

Ukraine’s parliament has voted to allow the Maritime Border Guard to open fire without warning if the force’s vessels come under unprovoked attack …
Illia Ponomarenko

Foreign policy experts say West still doing too little about Russia’s Azov Sea aggression

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Foreign policy experts who gathered at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5 criticized the West for a …
Askold Krushelnycky

Navy commander offers himself in swap for sailors captured by Russia

The top commander of Ukraine’s Naval Forces, Admiral Ihor Voronchenko, said he was ready to go to a Russian prison if President Vladimir Putin of …
Illia Ponomarenko

Ex-Putin adviser warns of coming Russian attack on strategic water canal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former senior adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the Kyiv Post that he believes Moscow is preparing to send its …
Askold Krushelnycky

Martial Confusion

First, a brazen naval attack shook Ukrainians; then their government’s response confused them. On Nov. 25, Russia’s coast guard attacked and captured …
Olga Rudenko
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Oksana Grytsenko

Who are the 24 Ukrainian sailors taken by Russia after sea attack?

A court in the Russian-occupied Crimea put 22 Ukrainian Navy sailors and two intelligence agents in pre-trial detention for two months on sham …
Veronika Melkozerova

How much will economy suffer if Azov Sea is lost?

When a Russian coast guard ship rammed a Ukrainian navy boat on Nov. 25 as it tried to cross the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea into the Azov Sea, it …
Natalia Datskevych
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Matthew Kupfer

Sea becomes new front in Russia’s war

It finally happened. After its stealth invasion of Crimea in 2014, followed by more than four years of covert combat in the eastern Donbas, Russia let …
Illia Ponomarenko

10 oblasts adapt to life under martial law

Ukraine’s declaration of martial law has thrown its citizens into confusion, especially those living in the 10 oblasts where the month-long emergency …
Bermet Talant

Western leaders slow in responding to Russian attacks on Ukraine

The leaders of Western countries are not moving fast in taking action to respond to Russia’s latest acts of aggression against Ukraine, in the wake of …
Jack Laurenson

Martial law legislation comes into effect (LIVE UPDATES)

The Coast Guard of the Russian Federal Security Service attacked and seized three Ukrainian Navy boats on Nov. 25 after the Ukrainian vessels tried to …
Kyiv Post

Journalist publishes list of Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia

On Nov. 27, Anton Naumlyuk, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist, published the names of the 24 Ukrainian sailors that have been captured by …
Oleg Sukhov

SBU confirms its officers were aboard vessels captured by Russia

The head of Ukraine’s security service Vasyl Hrytsak has confirmed that two of the service’s military counterintelligence agents were aboard the …
Illia Ponomarenko

Ukrainian diaspora in US protest against Russia’s Black Sea aggression

WASHINGTON D.C. – Ukrainian diaspora members and other supporters of Ukraine staged a demonstration outside the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. on …
Askold Krushelnycky
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