The Kyiv Independent Editor-in-Chief Olga Rudenko was announced as the winner of the Women of Europe award in the “Woman in Action” category on Dec. 8.
The award is presented by the European Women Lobby and the European Movement, a network of organizations that mobilizes citizens and advocates for European integration.
The award ceremony took place on Dec. 8 in Brussels. Rudenko gave an acceptance speech from Kyiv via video.
Other winners were Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who received the “Woman in Power” prize; Laura De Dilectis, CEO of DonnexStrada, who was recognized as the “Woman in Business”; and Viviane Ogou, the founder of Puerta de África, who won the Youth Activism Award.
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The White House has "signed off on the bill" to impose secondary sanctions on Russian trading partners, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said on Nov. 19.
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Rescue operations are still underway as authorities search for 26 people believed to be trapped under the rubble of a destroyed apartment building in Ternopil, western Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent’s Oleksiy Sorokin sits down with Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, to discuss Ukraine’s biggest wartime corruption scandal, which involves people from President Volodymyr Zelensky's circle and several government officials.
Russian forces in Pokrovsk are operating like sabotage and reconnaissance groups and complicating Ukraine's defense efforts by dressing as civilians, the commander of the 68th Jaeger Brigade, codenamed "Liutyi," told Suspilne on Nov. 19.
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Halushchenko is being investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) as part of the Energoatom case, the biggest corruption investigation during Zelensky's presidency. Eight suspects have also been charged, and Timur Mindich, a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelensky, is allegedly the ringleader.
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Russian FPV drones are turning front-line towns on the Dnipro’s right bank into “no right to life” zones, a Truth Hounds report finds, documenting rising civilian deaths in Kherson and Nikopol.
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian Envoy Kirill Dmitriev have extensively discussed the 28-point peace plan, an unnamed U.S. official said.
