Olena Removska is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid discussed the Crimea Platform initiative in an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service correspondent, Olena Removska, in Kyiv on August 24.
George Kent, the top U.S. diplomat for Ukraine, says that "Russia is the aggressor state" in Ukraine and the armed confrontations in the country's east should be called a "war," not just a "conflict." Kent spoke to Olena Removska from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service on July 20 in Kyiv.
A top U.S. State Department official said the United States supports Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s goal of curtailing the power of tycoons, but cautioned that the path to achieving this “is difficult.”
Three U.S. senators have pledged to advocate for continued support of Ukraine's military and to support its bid for NATO accession. Democratic senators Chris Murphy and Jeanne Shaheen, alongside their Republican colleague Rob Portman, were interviewed by Olena Romevska of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
A group of U.S. senators says President Joe Biden should warn his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at a summit this month that he will be held accountable for his actions against the United States.
The United States does not recognize "spheres of influence," seeing it as an idea "that should have been retired after World War II," Secretary of State Antony Blinken told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service while on a visit to Kyiv on May 6.
U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton says that Iran cannot hope for sanctions relief without a "comprehensive deal," that Washington would be "happy" to join talks mediating between Ukraine and Russia, and that U.S. sanctions on Moscow are tougher than those imposed by the European Union. Bolton made the comments in an interview with RFE/RL's Olena Removska on August 27 in Kyiv.
A Crimean Tatar was killed after being abducted in broad daylight while protesting Russia's seizure of Crimea in March 2014. Five years later, the case remains unsolved.
He lives the life of an average American today, but nearly four decades ago as a child Volodymyr Polovchak whipped up a Cold War storm by refusing to return from the United States to the Soviet Union.
As Russian-backed rebels make gains in eastern Ukraine, battlefield videos are raising concerns that war crimes are being committed.
Since March, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has maintained a special monitoring mission in Ukraine. In July, it added a second mission along the Russian side of the border. But with Ukrainian anger rising over the OSCE's role, the Vienna-based agency appears to be doing some soul-searching.
A so-called "people's tribunal" in Ukraine's separatist-controlled city of Luhansk has reportedly sentenced a soldier to death after a 50-minute "trial" and a simple show of hands. Ukrainian justice officials and rights activists say such summary hearings are unacceptable and have threatened to open criminal cases against tribunal members.
As separatist fighters dig in against a possible Ukrainian government offensive on the city of Donetsk, residents now face the possibility of being without water. Fighting around the city has damaged the city's water-supply system, and Donetsk could be dry in a matter of days.
Ukraine's acting president asks his government to initiate a ban on the Communist Party, but analysts worry such a move might further destabilize the country and derail the government's effort to boost its legitimacy.
Washington is due to decide next month whether to continue Ukraine's trade privileges, worth an estimated $50 million annually. The decision comes as a U.S. trade association is calling for the suspension of those privileges because Kyiv is doing too little to protect intellectual property.
