Category: Updates
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5/21/2025 — Putin continues to thwart Trump’s goal of achieving a cease-fire
From: Atlantic Council By John E. Herbst This is part of a series of regular assessments of the efforts, spearheaded by the Trump administration, to achieve a negotiated end to Russia’s war on Ukraine. Read the previous entry in the series here. Both the Kremlin and the White House statements on the two-hour May 19 phone call between presidents…
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5/21/2025 — The Diplomatic Masquerade: Promises and Prevarications
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / May 20, 2025 As Trump and Putin Hold Two-Hour Call with No Ceasefire Agreement, Zelensky Rejects Russian Territorial Demands, While European Allies Prepare Sanctions and Ukraine Continues Strikes on Russian Infrastructure Summary of the Day – May 19, 2025 The diplomatic arena witnessed intense activity with little tangible progress as US…
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5/20/2025 — Ukraine remembers… 🇺🇦
From: Meanwhile in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Every day the country comes to a standstill. A minute of silence for the fallen, for the wounded, for those who have not returned home. At the front, in every city, in every heart, Ukraine remembers. And with this memory comes strength.
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5/20/2025 — Dictatorships Will Fall Like Dominoes | Thor Halvorssen on Global Authoritarian Collapse
From: Kyiv Post — Authoritarian regimes are starting to fall—and according to human rights leader Thor Halvorssen, the collapse has only just begun. In this powerful conversation, Kyiv Post’s Jason Smart speaks with Thor Halvorssen, the founder and president of the Human Rights Foundation and the visionary behind the Oslo Freedom Forum, about the unraveling…
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5/20/2025 — You need to know this if you are planning to come to Ukraine 
From: Meanwhile in Ukraine — The war dramatically changed everyday life in Ukraine. Sirens instead of alarms. Shelters instead of classrooms. Flashlights instead of street lights. But despite everything people – indure, rebuild, and live… Please keep your hearts with Ukraine. We will never give up.
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5/20/2025 — Vance and Zelensky shake hands at Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass — in first encounter since Oval Office blow-up
From: NYPost — By Ryan King Vice President JD Vance shook hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in their first public encounter since their infamous Oval Office blow-up and later had a “good meeting” at the residence of the US ambassador to Italy. Vance and Zelensky briefly crossed paths Sunday while attending the first formal mass by Pope Leo XIV in…
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5/20/2025 — The Storm Before the Call: Russia’s Record Strike and Putin’s Calculated Display
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / May 19, 2025 Moscow launches largest drone assault of the war as Putin prepares to speak with Trump, while Europe rallies around Ukraine and Romania rejects the far-right Summary of the Day – May 18, 2025 As dawn broke over Ukraine on May 18, the debris of Moscow’s largest single drone…
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5/20/2025 — “I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,and in his word I hope…”
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1180) I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,and in his word I hope;my soul waits for the Lordmore than watchmen for the morning,more than watchmen for the morning.Psalm 130:5-6 During today’s church service, I noticed the flag on the flagpole at the Independence Square was lowered — a…
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5/19/2025 — Choosing life on Ukraine’s front lines
VOU: Mark Agarkov, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, one of the pastors at Kharkiv Presbyterian Church, and president of the church’s wartime humanitarian foundation is part of this article. For young people in eastern Kharkiv, staying is an act of resistance From: World by William Fleeson When Liza Andreeva fled her eastern hometown of Kharkiv in…
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5/19/2025 — How Russia targeted Crimean Tartars over centuries 
From: Ukrainer. — On May 18, 1944, Soviet authorities deported the entire Crimean Tatar population to remote parts of Central Asia — a crime that ultimately wiped out nearly half of the peninsula’s indigenous nation. What many don’t know is that by the time of the deportation, Crimean Tatars were already a minority in their…
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