Ostap Hunkevych

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As Russia pushes forward, Ukrainian soldiers say U.S. aid delays have left them exposed

Feb 19, 2024 | yahoo.com | Daryna Mayer |Yuliya Talmazan |Dan De Luce |Ostap Hunkevych |Marc Smith

KYIV, Ukraine — On Ukraine’s front lines, soldiers have their eyes on the enemy slowly advancing across the country’s muddy fields — and on Washington, where an ally’s inaction is doing as much to dent their morale. “The situation on the battlefield is getting worse every week,” one soldier serving in the southern Zaporizhzhia region told NBC News.
The man behind the battle to return Ukrainian children from Russia

Sep 18, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Molly Hunter |Ostap Hunkevych |Ed Flanagan |Bianca Britton |Yuliya Talmazan |Daryna Mayer | +3 more

KYIV, Ukraine — Mykola Kuleba looked stressed. The CEO of Save Ukraine listened carefully to his lead investigator whispering into his ear. He covered the microphone on his jacket. "It’s a very emotionally stressful day because we have our seventh rescue mission and we have a huge problem," said the head of the Ukrainian nongovernmental organization at the start of an interview with NBC News earlier this year.
The man behind the battle to return Ukrainian children from Russia

Sep 18, 2023 | nbcnews.com | Molly Hunter |Ostap Hunkevych |Ed Flanagan |Bianca Britton

Create your free profile or log in to save this articleSept. 18, 2023, 10:50 PM UTCBy , , and KYIV, Ukraine — Mykola Kuleba looked stressed. The CEO of Save Ukraine listened carefully to his lead investigator whispering into his ear. He covered the microphone on his jacket.
Ukraine and the U.S. appear at odds over Russia offensive

Sep 11, 2023 | msn.com | Yuliya Talmazan |Ostap Hunkevych

America’s top military commander is warning that Kyiv has limited time to pursue a stagnating military offensive as senior Ukrainian officials vow to push on, possibly putting Ukraine and its top backer, the U.S., at odds. The warning comes as tensions with Kyiv’s Western allies were on display this weekend as the Group of 20 summit wrapped up in India. In an interview with the BBC that aired Sunday, Gen.
Ukraine and the U.S. appear at odds over Russia offensive

Sep 11, 2023 | msn.com | Yuliya Talmazan |Ostap Hunkevych

America’s top military commander is warning that Kyiv has limited time to pursue a stagnating military offensive as senior Ukrainian officials vow to push on, possibly putting Ukraine and its top backer, the U.S., at odds. The warning comes as tensions with Kyiv’s Western allies were on display this weekend as the Group of 20 summit wrapped up in India. In an interview with the BBC that aired Sunday, Gen.
In Ukraine, Olympic dreams are a painful balancing act

Aug 19, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Ostap Hunkevych |Daryna Mayer |Kelly Cobiella |Alex Holmes |Yuliya Talmazan

KYIV, Ukraine — She stretches into seemingly impossible splits and painstakingly rehearses every toe point, before springing across the floor of the training gym under the watchful eye of her coaches. Viktoriia Onopriienko is one of Ukraine’s most promising rhythmic gymnasts, but her greatest balancing act may be the one that enables her to train for her Olympic dream while Russia’s war still pierces her sporting sanctuary.
2 young Ukrainian musicians were singing in the streets — hours later they were dead

Aug 14, 2023 | msn.com | Victor Sema |Anastasiia Parafeniuk |Yuliya Talmazan |Ostap Hunkevych |Bianca Britton

KYIV, Ukraine — They sang about love and loss, their lyrics reflecting the hopes and fears of their fellow Ukrainians as brutal battles raged a few miles from their home city of Zaporizhzhia in the country’s south. Now their musical lament is playing at their own graves. Street musicians Svitlana Siemieikina, 18, and Kristina Spitsyna, 21, were killed by a Russian airstrike on a residential area of Zaporizhzhia last week.
Ukrainian mother traveled 3,000 miles to retrieve son from Russians: 'I had no idea where to start'

Jun 29, 2023 | newsrnd.com | Molly Hunter |Ostap Hunkevych |Ed Flanagan |Bianca Britton

By Molly Hunter, Ostap Hunkevych, Ed Flanagan and Bianca Britton - NBC NewsKHARKIV, Ukraine — Oksana Stetsenko runs to her son Nikita with tears in her eyes as she hugs him tightly. In the TV ad by the pro-Kremlin NTV network, a reporter explains that the Ukrainian mother had "lost contact" with the boy in the autumn, when the Russian army took 13 children from a boarding school in the Ukrainian city of Kupyansk, east of Kharkiv.