Mark Raczkiewycz

Apr 29, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Mark Raczkiewycz

The running joke in the Kyiv Post newsroom in February 2014 was how Russia would react after the months-long pro-democratic uprising ousted the pro-Kremlin president. Viktor Yanukovych had fled to Russia and was now wanted for treason in Ukraine, but we were speculating that Moscow would probably cut off natural gas supplies to the country, as it had done in the past.

Apr 28, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Mark Raczkiewycz

The two Ukrainian citizens whom a suspected Russian national stabbed to death in Germany on April 27 were Ukrainian soldiers who were undergoing rehabilitation, Kyiv said the following day. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry (MFA) said it is still clarifying in which military units the two victims, aged 36 and 23 years, had served while they were convalescing.

Apr 25, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Mark Raczkiewycz

France is asking the European Union to impose additional sanctions on Moscow for an alleged Kremlin-backed influence campaign to interfere with the upcoming European parliamentary elections and advance narratives or policies that are meant to divide the 27-member nation economic and political bloc.

Apr 22, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Mark Raczkiewycz

Kyiv will receive long-range precision-guided Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in the newest US funding bill that is advancing through Washington’s bi-cameral legislature. “The great news is that this finally happening,” Senate Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) told US national broadcaster CBS news’s Face the Nation program on April 21.

Apr 21, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Mark Raczkiewycz

Ukraine’s navy says that a Russian rescue vessel was rendered inoperable, following an aerial attack near Sevestapol, where the country’s Black Sea naval base is located on the occupied Crimean Peninsula. Called Kommuna (commune), the ship sunk on the early morning on April 21, Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said on Facebook. The rescue ship had been operated since 1913, he added.