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By Marcel Gascon Kyiv, Apr 26 (EFE).- Kyiv has slammed Poland’s recent move to ban the sale of Ukrainian grain and food exports as “unjustified” and “illegal,” Ukraine’s trade chief told Efe in an interview Wednesday. “For us, all these measures are unjustified and illegal,” said Taras Kachka, who is also deputy minister of economy. …

By Marcel Gascon Kyiv, Apr 16 (EFE).- Thousands of faithful heard the Orthodox Easter service in Kyiv’s iconic Lavra Cathedral in the Ukrainian language for the first time in history on Sunday, despite the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s links to Moscow. “The Moscow Patriarchate had occupied the Lavra,” parishioner Mykhailo Yujimovich, an 80-year-old retired mechanical engineer …

Describing holiday as 'a story of going through trauma,' rabbi in Kyiv calls to 'learn from the story... and connect it to today so we learn the lessons of hope and rehabilitation'

By Marcel Gascon Kyiv, Apr 5 (EFE).- When Yevgeniya Kondratieva said goodbye to her mother on October 7 to spend a few days in a camp, neither of them thought that the vacation that was paid for by the Russian authorities could have forever separated the fifteen-year-old from her Ukrainian family. The camp, in the …

By Marcel Gascon Kyiv, Mar 31 (EFE).- Orthodox monks at the Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv, whom Ukrainian authorities accuse of being pro-Russian, were still refusing to leave the complex on Friday amid attempts by the Ukraine government to evict them and take over the administration of the Unesco World Heritage site. The Ukrainian …

Orthodox monks at the Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv accused of being pro-Russian were still refusing to leave the complex on Friday

By Marcel Gascon Kyiv, Mar 29 (EFE).- Ukrainian authorities claim to have documented nearly 20,000 cases of children who have been separated from their families or forcefully deported to the Russian Federation from territories occupied by Moscow’s invading forces. Kyiv said that some of these children have since been adopted by Russian families. “To take …

By Marcel Gascon Bucharest, Oct 22 (EFE).- Since the war began in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, husband and wife creative duo Sonia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko have made hundreds of artworks using pine wood ammunition boxes that the Ukrainian army uses to fend off invading Russian forces. “On a symbol of death, such as ammunition …

800 people who escaped Ukraine with the help of Tikvah, an organization that helps orphaned and disadvantaged youth, are taking their holiday spirit on the road

By Marcel Gascon Siret, Romania, Feb 27 (EFE).- Thousands of ordinary Romanians are joining efforts led by the government, companies, churches, and NGOs to provide refugees fleeing the violence in Ukraine with food, accommodation and transportation. Bogdan Nicolae, 35, a soldier in the Romanian army, tells Efe that he voluntarily drove his car almost six …