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In honor of the Day of Kyiv this Sunday, members of the Kyiv Post team put together a list of some of their favorite places to give you a sense of why we love this city.

Time to recognize at the official level the date in 1918 when Ukraine first declared its independence.

Time to recognize at the official level the date in 1918 when Ukraine first declared its independence.

The September 2023 appointment of Rustem Umerov as Ukraine's defense minister was well received at home and abroad. Noted for his youth and corruption-free record, the 41-year-old has been a top negotiator in talks with Russia. But what has drawn the most notice is Umerov's ethnic background as a Crimean Tatar, representing an often-overlooked part…

From the blog of Tony D. Senatore at The Times of Israel

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many in the West, and in the Kremlin too, expected the Ukrainian state to crumble in weeks, if not days. The government would flee, the state would be carved up – some lands absorbed by Russia, the rest perhaps being made into a Moscow-dominated puppet state. Indeed, the Kremlin's own denial of Ukrainian agency and statehood are as much the reasons for its failure to carry out regime change in Ukraine as its poor logistics an...

Anton Gerashchenko on the current state of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the prospects and implications.

This book provides first-hand documentation of events in the Soviet Union when the Civil War was ending and Bolshevik regime was consolidating its position. The author was an American anarchist of Russian origin deported to Russia in 1919. The book is based on his diaries written between 1919-21.

Time to officially recognize Jan. 22 as the date in 1918 on which modern Ukraine first declared its independence.

How Russian aristocrat Pavel Skoropadsky founded the Cossack Hetmanate in the heart of Europe and became a Ukrainian national hero Read Full Article at RT.com