Here’s how the week started:
- A Jan. 25 meeting between Yuriy Lutsenko and Rudi Giuliani, a block away from Manhattan’s Trump Tower, led to a wild turn in U.S. foreign policy. Read the full story.
- Shelling, by Russian-led militants prevented the arms withdraw at Zolote and Petrovske planed to begin today.
- Dubious ex-lawmaker Serhiy Pashynsky arrested by a Kyiv court. Pashynsky shot a man on New Year’s Eve 2016 after a traffic accident.
- Kyiv Post welcomes nominations for Top 30 under 30 Awards by Oct. 31.
- Ukraine ranks 21st at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. (Photos)
- Thousands of Ukrainians rally against Zelensky’s plan to end war with Russia. (Video)
OPINIONS
- Ilia Ponomarenko: Ukraine could have prevailed in the Donbas, but now doomed to unjust peace
- Artem Kochnev: What has (and what has not) changed in Russia’s war
- Timothy Ash: Ukrainegate, Dobas and PrivatBank
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Eight years ago this month, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted of abuse of office in what is now known as political revenge by ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, against whom she lost by 3.5 percentage points in the presidential election. The pretext for the show trial and conviction was her 2009 natural gas agreement with Russia, ending a winter shutoff. Ex-Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Derek Fraser, in an op-ed published by the Kyiv Post on Oct. 12, 2011, writes how the deal Tymoshenko struck as prime minister with Russian President Vladimir Putin wasn’t such a bad one and actually was beneficial to Ukraine in many ways. Read: “What was really in Tymoshenko’s 2009 gas agreement with Russia?” Tymoshenko wasn’t released from prison until the EuroMaidan Revolution sent Yanukovych fleeing to Russia on Feb. 22, 2014.
