Russian invasion of Ukraine
Special Coverage
Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that he started in 2014. The invasion received widespread international condemnation, including massive economic sanctions. Milwaukee’s Ukrainian American community began with immigrants in the early twentieth century, and continued to grow in the years after World War II and the fall of the Soviet Union.
These news stories cover the local connections in Milwaukee to an international crisis, and all the complexities woven into America’s political climate.
- Links to complete news coverage of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine: mkeind.com/ukraine
- Reports from Ukraine – Series of news reports from May 2022 in Ukraine: mkeind.com/reportsfromukraine
- Return to Ukraine – Series of news reports from June-July 2023 in Ukraine: mkeind.com/returntoukraine
- Selected features that focus on news from Milwaukee’s Sister City of Irpin: mkeind.com/irpin
Featured: Jennifer Vosters: A visit to Kyiv that offered insight, awareness, and an inspiration for solidarity [Feb 24, 2022]
Trump frustrated by failure to end Russia’s invasion as Putin sets “a trap” in demands for Ukraine concessions
Donald Trump declared a diplomatic breakthrough on August 18 in his bid to prod Moscow and Kyiv closer to peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Four days later, the...
Ukrainian flag raised in City Hall to show Milwaukee’s solidarity with sister city Irpin and Ukraine
Milwaukee’s City Hall rotunda was filled with the blue and yellow colors of Ukraine on August 11, when Wisconsin Ukrainians, Inc., in partnership with the City of Milwaukee, hosted a special Ukrainian Flag Display Ceremony. The special event marked the beginning of a...
Zelenskyy says Kyiv must be part of any negotiations and rejects formally ceding Ukrainian territory
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed on August 9 the planned summit between Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, warning that any peace deal excluding Kyiv would lead to “dead solutions.” The Trump-Putin meeting, scheduled for...
Trump to host Putin in Alaska despite ICC war crimes indictment and ongoing invasion of Ukraine
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed he could stop Russia’s war on Ukraine with a single phone call. Instead, Matt Murphy and Ned Davies of the BBC report that Russian attacks on Ukraine have doubled since Trump took office. August 8 was the...
Crimea and the war for identity: From the Mongol siege of Kiev to Putin’s campaign to erase Ukraine
In December of 1240, the Mongol Empire unleashed hell upon the capital of Kievan Rus’. Under the command of Batu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, the Mongol horde breached the fortified city of Kiev after a ten-week siege. What followed was a calculated massacre....
U2’s Bono questions if the world still values mercy as peace retreats in an age overshadowed by war
Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he said, gave him a “delayed adolescence.” “I can tell you I’ve slept on beaches...
Drone battlefields: Ukraine’s advanced tactics shows U.S. deficiencies in adapting to modern warfare
A battlefield revolution is unfolding across Ukraine, driven by wire-guided FPV drones and improvised strike tactics that have transformed front-line warfare into a test of adaptability and production, not just firepower. While this shift continues to alter the...
Ukrainian drones destroy more than 40 strategic warplanes in a stunning attack deep within Russia
A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed more than 40 Russian planes deep in Russia’s territory, Ukraine’s Security Service said on June 1, while Moscow pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones just hours before a new round of direct peace talks in Istanbul....
Russia’s claim of Kursk victory masks deeper failures as Ukrainian forces hold ground amid fading momentum
The brutal Soviet-style dictator, Vladimir Putin, visited Russia’s Kursk region for the first time since Moscow claimed that it had supposedly driven Ukrainian forces out of the area. On May 21, the Russian military announced that its troops had fully reclaimed...
Ukraine’s allies hit Russia with new sanctions after Trump’s phone call with Putin brings no ceasefire
Kyiv’s European allies slapped new sanctions May 20 on Moscow, a day after an over-hyped phone call between the American autocrat Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough on ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine, which...
The Mariupol Plan: How Trump betrayed America and intended to help Putin carve up Ukraine
In the shadows of two controversial elections and the worst European war since the defeat of Nazi Germany, one truth has emerged with brutal clarity: Donald Trump was never an agent of peace. He was the delivery mechanism for Vladimir Putin’s blueprint to dismantle...
Milwaukee Independent reflects on third anniversary of its first assignment to cover the war in Ukraine
Three years ago, almost to the day on May 20, a team of journalists from Wisconsin crossed into Ukraine during the early phase of Russia’s full-scale invasion. It was the first time any news outlet from the state had reported directly from within Ukraine after the war...
An estimated 30,000 North Korean troops prepare to join Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine
North Korea is expected to deploy tens of thousands of troops to the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, in what intelligence assessments describe as one of the most significant foreign reinforcements to Russian ground forces since the invasion began. The move could...
Featured: Photos from the frontlines: Sergi Mykhalchuk documents images of war as civilians evacuate Irpin [Mar 16, 2022]
Featured: Milwaukee formalizes Sister City status with Ukraine’s Irpin [Mar 23, 2018]
Milwaukee has a small but thriving Ukrainian American community, and Irpin is a sister city. Follow our special coverage at mkeind.com/ukraine for updates on Putin’s invasion, and about how the fight by Ukrainian people to preserve their democracy is having an impact on the families and businesses here in Milwaukee. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! Героям слава!
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