The Kyiv Independent’s Chris York sat down with author, historian, and Russia’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9, which mark the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany in World War II, are one of the country’s biggest public events of the year. President of the Ukrainian Society of Switzerland Andrej Lushnycky who sheds some light on the things Putin would rather you didn’t know about World War II.
Washington’s involvement may also help mitigate political opposition in Europe, while giving the U.S. strategic visibility over future Russian energy flows, sources told Reuters.
The agreement, signed on April 30, establishes a joint investment fund between Kyiv and Washington and grants the U.S. special access to projects developing Ukraine's natural resources.
The aftermath of Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast on June 6, 2023. (Photo: Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko / Telegram)
Two people were killed by Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast over the past 24 hours, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported on June 7.
According to Kyrylenko, one person was killed in the village of Torske by shelling.
Another person was killed in the village of Pivnichne. Five buildings in the community were also damaged.
Multiple other settlements were hit by shelling and the city of Avdiivka was targeted by rocket fire, Kyrylenko wrote.
A total of 1,551 people have been killed in Donetsk Oblast since the start of the full-scale invasion, while 3,653 people have sustained injuries of varying degrees of severity.
However, the actual numbers are much higher, since it is currently impossible to calculate casualties in occupied Volnovakha and Mariupol.
Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who writes mostly about culture-related topics in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Her newsletter Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan, which focuses specifically on Ukrainian culture, is published weekly by the Kyiv Independent. The U.S. publisher Deep Vellum published her co-translation of Ukrainian author Oleh Sentsov’s Diary of a Hunger Striker in 2024. Some of her other writing and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Apofenie Magazine.
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