Alexander Query

Life near Russian-occupied nuclear plant: ‘I don’t know if tomorrow will come’

October 4, 2022 / by Alexander Query

Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Independent talked to residents who are still in Russian-occupied Enerhodar and those who recently left but still have family in the city. For their...

Culture

Mykolaiv theater lives on from bunker amid shelling

September 22, 2022 / by Alexander Query

MYKOLAIV – The bunker under the Mykolaiv academic theater was packed, with the last preparations well underway for an evening show 30 kilometers west of the front line....

National ,Regional

Estonia’s ex-President Kaljulaid: Bringing Ukraine closer to EU can set example for Russia

September 17, 2022 / by Alexander Query

Estonia has shown unwavering support for Ukraine ever since Russian forces started their all-out invasion in February. And this support has not faltered. Estonia has provided Ukraine with...

National

PM Shmyhal: Ukraine relies on partners to cover $38 billion budget deficit in 2023

September 14, 2022 / by Alexander Query

War-torn Ukraine relies on its foreign partners to face massive expenditures in the coming year, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a briefing on Sept. 14, detailing...

National

Russia’s nuclear blackmail, explained (VIDEO)

September 12, 2022 / by Alexander Query, Anna Yakutenko

The world’s nuclear security is under threat as Russia occupies the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and uses it as a base to launch attacks on Ukraine. The Kyiv...

Business

Business far from usual in wartime Odesa

September 2, 2022 / by Alexander Query

ODESA – Odesa has always been Ukraine’s prime summer destination. Packed streets, buskers on promenades, and a relentless mass of busy restaurants and bars filled with tourists ready...

National

Mykolaiv mayor's wartime duty: Taking care of the living, counting the dead

August 13, 2022 / by Alexander Query

MYKOLAIV — Nights are short in the southern embattled city of Mykolaiv. Since Russia took control of neighboring Kherson in early March, Ukraine’s shipbuilding capital has been shelled...

National

Occupied Ukrainian plant becomes epicenter of Russia’s nuclear blackmail

August 10, 2022 / by Alexander Query

Anticipating a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the country’s south, Russia is turning the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in occupied Enerhodar into a ticking time bomb. Repeated Russian shelling...

National

Ukrainian grain freed as first ship crosses Black Sea

August 3, 2022 / by Alexander Query

ODESA — After two days of a closely-watched and perilous route from the mine-ridden Odesa port, the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni ship arrived in Istanbul on Aug. 3. The...

National

Russians murder agricultural tycoon Vadaturskyi, his wife in attack on Mykolaiv

July 31, 2022 / by Alexander Query

Early in the morning on July 31, a leading figure in Ukraine’s agribusiness, tycoon Oleksiy Vadaturskyi, and his wife Raisa Vadaturska were killed by a Russian strike that...

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