Ukraine freedom party

Russia says dialogue channels with NATO at 'zero level' but doesn't seek open conflict

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, quoted by the state news agency RIA, remarked that the deterioration in Russia-NATO relations is unfolding at a expected progression.

 WHEN THE Soviet Union dissolved, Vladimir Putin called it ‘the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.’
Russian soldiers march in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 13, 2022

Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine

 A woman from Ukraine listens to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's speech on a phone, at a refugee shelter after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Beregsurany, Hungary, February 28, 2022.

Internet, electricity to be provided to Ukrainian hospitals, refugees

VLODYMYR ZELENSKY, the Jewish president-elect of Ukraine, meets with rabbis in Kiev

‘A mixed blessing,’ say Jews five years after the revolution


In the land of the trident: The Jewish community in Ukraine

Jews, it appears, will be living under the “Tryzub” – the gold trident that forms Ukraine’s national symbol, for some time to come.

Rabbi Pinchas Vishedsky at the Jewish Community Center for Refugees in Kiev.

Ukrainian president taps Jewish politician to be next prime minister

Last year, Vlodymir Groysman's reputation as an honest and effective administrator earned Groysman the title of speaker of the Ukrainian parliament.

Volodymyr Groysman

Three mistakes about Ukraine

Even in Russian-speaking Kharkiv residents took to the rallies with placards: “I am Russian. Putin does not need to ‘save’ me!”

Smoke rises above an old terminal (L) and an administrative building of the Sergey Prokofiev International Airport after the recent shelling during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, November 9, 2014.

Rescuing Jews in peril

Fellowship has supported aliya from the former Soviet Union for many years, but this dire situation required special attention.

Jews in the Ukrainian town of Donetsk.

Britain says scrambles fighter jets to escort Russian bombers off UK coast

Britain summoned the Russian ambassador in January to explain a similar episode, when Russian bombers flew over the English Channel, forcing British authorities to reroute civil aircraft.

A British Tornado jet prepares to takeoff at the RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus September 27, 2014

Car in Bat Yam allegedly defaced over Ukraine war

Alexey Ostapenko is involved with efforts to ship aid to Ukraine and believes that the presence of the logo of Azov militias shows the attack was nationalistically motivated.

Alexey Ostapenko's car, vandalized with  swastikas and the logo of the Ukrainian Azov battalion

British Labor Party commits to Palestinian state

Labor leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander stated amid loud applause that he regarded statehood for the Palestinians not as a gift to be given, “but as a right to be recognized.”

British House of Commons in London.

Rebels shoot down Ukrainian plane killing 49 military personnel

Increasing tensions between separatist rebels and Kiev signal conflict still not under control; incident occurred in eastern city of Luhansk.

A pro-Russia rebel sits on top of an armored vehicle outside a regional government building in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine May 10, 2014.