Sitemap - 2025 - Two Grumpy Old Men on Ukraine 🇺🇦

Down with Lenin! - and up with...?

BREAKING NEWS😉: Somebody leaked the NATO communique on Ukraine to me. It will say…. nothing.

GRUMPY RANT: NATO Summit. A humiliated continent. And Ukraine pays the price.

Only a fool would believe that Putin wants peace.

Am I ok? That is the question.

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Katerina Zirka - Ukrainian entrepreneur in Italy - "This war won’t end politely. It will end either with justice or with silence. And silence is unacceptable."

Trump is now directly helping Russia kill Ukrainians.

Putin used Central Asia as a 'hybrid war' training ground for Ukraine (part 2): The June 2010 ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan - and Russia’s involvement.

Putin used Central Asia as a 'hybrid war' training ground for Ukraine (part 1): The April 2010 crisis and violent change of power in Kyrgyzstan.

Today Trump made it clear that he is with Putin against Ukraine.

On Ukraine and Putin – it’s 'TACO' on speed.

‘What a clever boy you are, Donald!’

Three languages for our Ukrainian Cinderella.

Bla-bla-bla: a guide to ‘negotiations’ to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

Stand Up And Fight the Gender Wars!

Trump, Putin, Ukraine – and Springsteen

RANT: Putin was never going to come to Istanbul. Of course not.

Ukraine and WWII: "Today we should speak not of victory or triumph, but of remembrance."

BREAKING NEWS (or just more blabber?): Is Trump finally getting tired of Putin humiliating him over Ukraine?

What (not) to say when you are on a date with a Ukrainian woman in war time.

‘Trump probably thinks that John Wayne won the Second World War.’

On Resistance and Cowardice

POLL: Ukrainians do not trust Trump. Duh.

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Pavlo Gintov - a Ukrainian pianist in New York - "Anything short of complete Ukrainian victory and collapse of Putin’s fascist regime would be unjust. And I still believe in justice."

Fighting for Putin's wanna-be empire.

Trump has chosen side: The U.S. President is on team Putin now.

Ukraine talks in London: bizarre and still-born

Feminism, beauty regimes - and Ukrainian women abroad.

Let's decolonize ourselves - let’s provincialize Russia!

Trump is doing his worst to normalize Putin’s terror bombing of Ukraine

BLITZ INTERVIEW: "I’m afraid that if a missile hits our building, I won’t have time to shield my daughter with my own body."

"'F you Russia' is the message from Odesans,” says Julian Evans – author of a new book about the city.

RANT: Putin's murders in Ukraine are also on you, Donald - your stupid macho games are emboldening him. Today it cost nine children their lives.

No Trump tariffs on Russia – a warning to Ukraine? You think?!

No April Fool's: Ukraine, Trump and Hannah Arendt (and The Economist)

Whose language is it anyway?

The Ukrainian President got a parking ticket. Perfect.

A uniquely valuable asset

It is time to save ourselves.

"Putin will eat you for lunch, Donald!", warned Kamala Harris. He just did.

With Ukraine, It’s Personal with President Trump

40 years since Gorbachev came to power: A massive, missed opportunity. Shame on us.

A very Ukrainian lady: "Why can't they just let us think for ourselves?"

Year 1 of our 🇺🇦 blog: A mad, bad, sad year.

A TRUE STORY: The Summer of 74’, a bully, a football, Nixon and democracy.

No Lukashenko = no Russian invasion of Ukraine: The path to peace - removing dictators.

You are surprised? Really?

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Julian Evans - author, journalist, globetrotter - in love with Ukraine

MUST WATCH: Sikorski in brutal and beautiful takedown of Putin and Trump.

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Violist on a mission for Ukraine - Kateryna Suprun.

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Natalka Cmoc - Canada's Ambassador to Ukraine - "Russia can end this war by leaving Ukraine. It is that simple."

Trump making Putin happy (part 3): ‘Vladimir and I want elections in Ukraine!’

It’s official: The West is now totally split on Ukraine

From Munich to Moscow: The Perils of Appeasing Power Hungry Potentates

Fcuk what an Orange week…

BLITZ INTERVIEW: A Belarusian in the army of Ukraine - "Ukrainians still believe the world cares ... and I try to hope they are right."

Trump making Putin happy (part 2): Ukraine – the rape parallel

Belarus' Mock Election

Trump making Putin happy (part 1): U.S. pressing for elections in Ukraine in 2025.

VIDEO – Ukrainian eye candy for the weekend

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Inna Bogatykh, Deputy Minister of Justice - "We Ukrainians really have a gene of freedom in our national character."

To Elonskiy Musk: You should be ashamed of yourself.

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Roman Sheremeta - academic and influencer for Ukraine - "Russia must be defeated."

Ukraine: Yes, it is about civilization. Or not.

Different approaches - to politics, to Ukraine, to other human beings...

Ukraine Update: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025

Putin's Silenced Critics

Ukraine Update: Monday, Jan. 27, 2025

Ukrainian children and war

Norway's shining example for Ukraine

Ukraine Update: Friday, Jan. 24, 2025

Murders that haunt Ukraine

The Untouchables of Ukraine

Liberty or death: Ukraine's choice then & now.

Ukraine Update: Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025

Incredible India

Ukraine Update: Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025

Ukraine's COVID fight

Russia's war: Deadly for 11 years

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Mykola Shpakovskyi - video journalist, musician, poet and soldier with the 68th Jaeger Brigade in Donetsk

Ukraine Update: Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025

The killing minefields of Russia's war

Trump's grim Putinesque speech

Trump makes no mention of Ukraine

Ukraine Update: Monday, Jan. 20, 2025

Trump should tell Putin there will be 'all hell to pay' if he doesn't get out of Ukraine

Washington Post: Trump's purge includes Pyatt, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine

Russians challenging Putin from exile

A reminder of why Ukrainians revolted 12 years ago

When Berdyansk was still free

What a difference 8 years makes

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Polina Polozhentseva - playwright (barista, mother, refugee) - 'Military actions do not alter a person’s personality; they erase it.'

Ukraine Update: Friday, Jan. 17, 2025

David Lynch: film auteur who condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine - and liked darkness, bacon, cakes and woodwork. RIP.

Ukraine's dictator laws passed 11 years ago

Ukraine Update: Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025

A taste of President Trump to come?

Russia's bloody war...10 years ago

Ukraine Update: Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025

Can Trump deliver on his promise to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

2021: Last year of the Kyiv Post newspaper

Ukraine Update: Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025

Ukraine Update: Monday, Jan. 13, 2025

It's déjà vu all over again with Trump

Kyiv Post classic: Ringing in 2013

Kyiv Post classic: Ringing in 2018

Kyiv Post classic: Ringing in 2019

Ukraine Update: Friday, Jan. 10, 2025

A terrible anniversary

Wisdom from the great Walter Cronkite

How Trump can win the Nobel Peace Prize

Ukraine Update: Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025

BLITZ INTERVIEW: Olha Mukha - philosopher, culture diplomat, curator and communicator - all for Ukraine.

NEW YEAR’S RANT: Yes, the war in Ukraine is about civilization.