TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited his Belarusian counterpart and close ally for talks Friday in Minsk, after which he questioned whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy has the legitimacy to negotiate on Ukraine’s behalf. Russia is willing to hold talks about the war in Ukraine, Putin said, but Zelenskyy’s five-year term in office was […]
The White House on Wednesday confirmed that Ukraine’s first lady and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny‘s widow were invited to the State of the Union but declined to attend. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to provide details. PHOTO: Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska arrives for a meeting in Berlin, Feb. 2, 2024. | Yulia Navalny […]
A missile exploded in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Wednesday, just hundreds of feet from where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, according to sources. “It hit in a couple of hundred of meters (about 300 feet) from us, while the meeting was going,” a source added. The […]
The President’s Office of Ukraine has drafted a submission to the Constitutional Court regarding the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s tenure as Ukraine’s president, which expires this spring, but it has yet to submit it, ZN.UA reports. Source: ZN.UA Details: Under the Ukrainian Constitution (Article 103.5), the next presidential election in Ukraine should take place on […]
Ukraine and Poland have started discussing a possible meeting at the level of the government at heads of state at the border. The meeting has to solve the issue of the blockade of checkpoints by Polish farmers. Source: Serhii Nykyforov, press secretary of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during the national joint 24/7 newscast Details: Nykyforov […]
Trust in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decreased by about 5 percentage points immediately after Valerii Zaluzhnyi stepped down as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Omnibus public opinion poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and published on Feb. 15. Read also: Survey reveals Ukrainians trust in military, but trust […]
Irene Komarynsky, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist who lives in Connecticut, vividly remembers the groundswell of support for Ukraine after Russia’s brutal invasion of the country in February 2022. The blue-and-yellow flags flying over suburban houses. The public fascination with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the comedian-turned-war chief. But that was two long years ago. These […]
Mykhailo Podolyak, Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office, addressed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for a leadership reboot in Ukraine during a televised interview on Feb. 5. “Today we are in a kind of stagnation… not along the front line,” he said. “…But in a kind of stagnation, because we need to understand that […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made his first comments on the possible dismissal of Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, saying that Ukraine needs a change in leadership, not just in the military. Radio NV discussed Zelenskyy’s recent interview with political analyst Ihor Reiterovych. Read also: Zelenskyy wants to replace ‘range of state leaders’, not just […]
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not fire Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi, presidential spokesperson Serhiy Nykyforov told reporters on Jan. 29. Nikiforov made the comment after several Ukrainian news outlets and foreign journalists reported sources telling them that Zaluzhnyi was dismissed. Read also: Top general Zaluzhnyi honors poet-soldier “Dali” killed in battle […]
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not dismissed Valerii Zaluzhnyi as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Source: Serhii Nykyforov, the President’s Press Secretary, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda Details: Asked whether the president has dismissed General Zaluzhnyi, the press secretary answered “Definitely not. The president has not dismissed the Commander-in-Chief.” Anonymous Telegram channels, individual […]
The income of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his family has decreased from 10.8 million hryvnias (US$285,000) in 2021 to 3.7 million hryvnias (US$97,700) in 2022. Source: website of the Office of the President of Ukraine Details: Zelenskyy has made public his declarations of property, income, expenses and financial liabilities for 2021 and 2022. According […]