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PROUD RANT: My little Denmark is - relative to GDP - Ukraine's biggest supporter. And my prime minister just told her colleagues to stop moaning about 'red lines' and fear of escalation.

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Gordon Siebring - an American farmer in Ukraine with a few home truths to tell.

Yalta European Strategy conference prods a slow-moving West to help Ukraine win

The latest on Ukraine's home & war front

Fact-checking the Ukraine part of the Harris-Trump debate

What Americans think about Ukraine (if they do)? Impressions from the old editor's summer trip to the US of A.

The answer was clearly no.

One reason why Feb. 24, 2022, happened: Sanctions against Russia were porous

Marta Dyczok discusses her new book 'Ukraine, not the Ukraine'

Unpleasant news (1): 'The mob is not going to storm the Kremlin and throw Putin out over Kursk.'

Independence celebrations over the years

The build-up to the 'Big War'

Ukraine at 25 (8 years ago)

My first & only invitation to Ukrainian president's Independence Day reception

Alexander Motyl talks Ukrainian war & history

Kursk one week in: So far, the memes are better than the analyses.

Brian Bonner talks to The Ukrainian Weekly

Oleksandra Matviichuk on how to prevent war and punish aggressors

On this day in 2008, Russia invaded Georgia: Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Kyiv Independent weighs Trump vs. Harris

Discovering Ukraine

In Memoriam: Morgan Williams and the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council

Ukraine, 7 years ago

How dark will Ukraine's winter be?

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Julia Gorodetskaya - journalist, volunteer, fundraiser and candlemaker - 'I knew that Odesa would never give up'

The Zelensky landslide in 2019

When Ukraine advanced in July 2014

Corruption, corruption, corruption...

The 2021 US-German betrayal that triggered Russia's full-scale invasion

How the West failed Ukraine

Trump dumps Ukraine

An interview with Oleksandr Merezhko

Pavlo Sheremet

Russian involvement in shooting down MH17 was known from the start

The West gets ready to cut & run on Ukraine

Headquarters for Grumpy Old Men*

JD Vance is disastrous news for Ukraine

Kyiv flashback: Railway station in 1985

MH17 justice

Merkel & Putin on a Crimean beach

Russian history: The basics

The Merkel-Putin lovefest

If Trump wins, will Ukraine lose?

BLITZ INTERVIEW: John Freedman fights for Ukraine with theater, literature and films

Is it possible that Russia hit the children's hospital by mistake? No way, experts agree.

Radio Kharkiv (episode 3): A Yankee in Kharkiv in the 1990s. And in 2024.

Reforms & setbacks

What is the future of drone warfare?

Ukraine’s electricity blackouts could last for years, but it can be much worse

Russian history - notice recurring themes?

Epic corruption, epic banking disaster

Italy vs. Spain in Euro 2012 championshp

What happens when Ukraine confronts evil

Another reminder that Russia's war did not start in 2022

A Kyiv Post classic cartoon

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Psychotherapist Kateryna Savitska on how the scars of this war run deep and far.

Dual Life

Reminder: Russia's war did not start in 2022

One scam after another

Bolton blasts Donald Trump's contempt for Ukraine

3 friends who mattered

Russia is winning the war on the energy destruction front

Maryna Poroshenko read the Kyiv Post

Savoring Summer

The Prince of Nothing speaks

Sweet memories of the summer of 2012

Poroshenko's falling popularity

The war's tragedies started early in 2014

How could Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine have been prevented?

Ukraine's students falling behind

Education in war

Government infighting, cash-strapped budget, Russian traitors, corruption...

GRUMPY RANT: Putin's nuclear threat is a sign of a KGBist in over his head.

An oldie but a goody

Ukraine loses control of Azov Sea with Russia's opening of Kerch Bridge in 2018

Ukraine’s Peace Summit: Primarily for taking attendance of the coalition supporting Ukraine. Don’t expect much.

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Yevhen Maslov - a journalist from Kharkiv, now a refugee in Germany - 'Ukraine will be revived within 5 or 10 years'

Letting the corrupt in Ukraine escape

So Putin meets the Pope

Western & Ukrainian failings 8 years ago

Ukraine loses one of its best friends

Russia's 'very serious' influence remains in Ukraine's courts and legal system

The Two Grumpy Old Men interviewed on the Silicon Curtain podcast

Andrei Sannikov (Part 1): If the West had helped Belarusians topple Lukashenko in 2020, Putin would not have attacked Ukraine.

Let's hope there is no Minsk III peace process to end Russia's war on Ukraine

Ukraine gets political cold shoulder in 2021

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Gregory Aimaro-Parmut is a US historian with strong Ukrainian roots and a few home truths to tell

A good reminder of how bad the EU was on Russia's war against Ukraine

MP Oleksiy Goncharenko on Zelensky, war & the future of English in Ukraine

Radio Kharkiv (Episode 2)

Remember Covid-19?

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Lada Tesfaye, a public speaking coach with her heart in Kharkiv

Diplomacy during war

Radio Kharkiv (Episode 1)

Poroshenko wins in landslide in 2014

This war has taken its toll for a long time

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Jesper Lindholt, a Danish tech executive bringing hundreds of cars to the Ukrainian army

Revisiting Jamala's 2016 Eurovision victory

Covid-19 restrictions start to ease in Ukraine

The situation at the war front

The move that spurred Ukraine forward

Kate Gladka: Blood, sweat & tears in Kyiv

80th anniversary of Stalin's forced deportation of Crimean Tatars

Michael Andersen: Blinken plays guitar in Kyiv – but we are the ones being played

Bombs away?

Viktor Medvedchuk's treasonous life finally catches up with him

South Dakota TV station takes notice of Two Grumpy Old Men on Ukraine

Ukraine Calling...Toronto

Grumpy Rant: Is Ukraine doing ‘a Prigozhin’?

Eurovision 2017! When Kyiv shined

Ukraine + Biden 1 - Trump 0

Still waiting for Victory Day

Another spring in the trenches

Kate Gladka: Blood, sweat & tears in Kyiv

Happy Easter!

Daria Kaleniuk: Zelensky must fire Oleh Tatarov as deputy head of presidential administration

Andreas Umland: The European debate about Ukraine is changing. Sympathy is being replaced by rationality.

Ukraine soldier: 'We must not let the enemy and the war eat us up from the inside'

Trading Wall Street for Ukraine: The Story of Andrew Pryma

Kate Gladka: Blood, sweat & tears in Kyiv

Predicting the Kremlin's full-scale invasion

Ukraine policy, Trump-style: 'Putin could have been stopped with the right whatever'

How new US aid to Ukraine will (and won’t) change the war

$61 billion for Ukraine, but still very far to go

Ukrainian women's guide to preparing for death in war

Mohammad Zahoor: 'I think Ukraine is a place where you need to be Ukrainian or you need to be corrupt.'

Classic Kyiv Post: April 2011 – The free press wins sometimes in Ukraine

History can be frightening: NATO, Georgia and Ukraine

Classic Kyiv Post: April 2014 – Putin claims southeastern Ukraine is Novorossiya

Classic Kyiv Post: April 2021 – Russia's dress rehearsal for the full-scale invasion

Three articles that are worth reading on Ukraine

ANALYSIS: A reelected President Trump vs. Ukraine: 'A nightmare revisited'

Classic Kyiv Post: April 2016 – Amber, Poroshenko & 'diamond prosecutors,' and Groysman takes over as prime minister

Ukraine, Putin and the long lines of history: Is it time to roll out Kissinger?

Classic Kyiv Post: April 2015 – War in Mariupol heats up, Poroshenko's Russian ties, slow investigations of Yanukovych

Classic Kyiv Post: April 2017 – Spotlight on Mykolaiv, obstructions to Naftogaz reform

Classic Kyiv Post: April 2018 – France, dismal Ukrainian prosecutors and ANTAC's stunning finding on oil & gas permits

Yuriy Sak: How Ukraine can win the war

Millions have left Ukraine and many are not coming back

Why Ukraine’s refugees are a national security issue

OMG: Facinating Central Asia, next to China

Kurt Volker: 'Russia claims the territories of other countries'

Brian Bonner: Ukraine may have no choice but to lower its fighting age

Jogging in Kharkiv, 2016: 'Why can’t they just let us think for ourselves?'

Ben Hodges: 'It's essential that Ukraine wins'

Ukraine digs in and hopes for the best in 'spring defensive'

Marta Dyczok on the revival of Hromadske Radio's 'Ukraine Calling' program

Happy March 8 (I promise only to beat you tomorrow)

Ukraine is fighting for all of us...but most are not

As Ukraine fights for its survival, many young men sit out the war

'Putin, do I look like a Nazi?'

Republicans offer Kyiv reassurance on aid package. Do they know something we don’t?

The good old days of newspapers & kiosks

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