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]
Relentless onslaught: Russia presses its summer offensive in Ukraine as the West tries to blunt the push
Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned defenses in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. That, in turn, has brought new threats by...
Russia’s Folly: NATO countries eye more help for Ukraine as Putin pushes his failing invasion
Ukraine’s Western allies have sent the country $70 billion in military aid to help thwart Russia’s full-scale invasion, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in early April, and with no peace negotiations on the horizon the alliance is gearing up to...
A Unified Ukraine: Officials envision a liberated Crimea finally free from Putin’s bloody grasp
A top Ukrainian official on recently outlined a series of steps the government in Kyiv would take after the country reclaims control of Crimea, including dismantling the strategic bridge that links the seized Black Sea peninsula to Russia. Oleksiy Danilov, the...
Ukrainian forces consider how to “de-occupy” Crimea as Russia prepares for a likely spring offensive
By Christopher Morris, Teaching Fellow, School of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation, University of Portsmouth To paraphrase the words of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, everything began with Crimea, and everything will end there as well. When Russia...
20 Days in Mariupol: Milwaukee Film Festival screens Ukrainian documentary that won praise at Sundance
The visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” produced by the Associated Press and Frontline (PBS) was awarded the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition Audience Award in January. It will be showcased locally during the 2023 Milwaukee Film...
Escaping the war: How Ukrainian families in Wisconsin find help from the Resettlement Assistance Program
Peter Sokor has been playing piano since childhood, and at his home in Ukraine, he made his living giving lessons to adults and children. He enjoyed teaching people and planning large concerts where students would invite their families, friends and coworkers to see...
Cultural Symbolism: Why heritage sites in Ukraine like Saint Sophia Cathedral remain a threat to Russia
By J. Eugene Clay, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University More than 160 Ukrainian cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed since Russia invaded the country in February 2022,...
A war on food in Ukraine: World Central Kitchen’s relief effort has served 100 Million meals in 5 months
Today marks five months since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, displacing millions of people, claiming tens of thousands of lives, and destroying thousands of buildings and entire communities. But these numbers only partially convey what the Ukrainian people have had...
Illusion of Greatness: Russia’s war continues to be propelled by propaganda and historic parallelism
By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University; and Evgeniya Pyatovskaya, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, University of South Florida Russia’s war against Ukraine is pressing into its...
A terror playbook: Almost two million Ukrainians have been victims of Russia’s mass kidnappings
By Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University – Newark Following months of speculation, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on July 13, 2022, that Russia...
War-shattered infrastructure: North Korean labor to rebuild occupied Donbas region destroyed by Russia
North Korea could send workers to two Russian-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine, according to Russia’s ambassador in Pyongyang. The move would pose a challenge to international sanctions against the North’s nuclear weapons program. According to NK News, a...
Morally Exhausted: Why Russian soldiers are refusing to fight in the unprovoked war on Ukraine
For 4 1/2 months, Corporal Ilya Kaminsky and his fellow soldiers from the 11th Separate Air Assault Brigade have waged war, as part of the grinding Russian military offensive that has slowly pushed Ukrainian troops back in eastern Ukraine. By early July, Kaminsky...
A fight for survival: It is no longer just a personal battle for Ukraine’s athletes at the Paris Olympics
For Ukrainian hurdler Anna Ryzhykova, each stride on the Paris Olympic track will have meaning far beyond the time she clocks. Her competitions are no longer strictly an individual battle, but war on a different front. Her goal is not just gold, but also to rivet...
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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