Ukraine

Is Ukraine’s Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Kremlin Propaganda?

On a breezy afternoon last spring, the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman took me on a tour of a public park near the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, along with a team of aides,...

By Simon Shuster/Kyiv September 29, 2021

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Allegedly Cursed Out a Reporter and Asked Her to Identify Ukraine on a Map

Mary Louise Kelly alleged Pompeo became upset after she asked about former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

By Madeleine Carlisle January 25, 2020

The Iran Plane Crash Could Be the Latest in a Long History of Accidental Shoot-Downs

Learn more about five tragedies that claimed hundreds of lives

By Tara Law January 9, 2020

Iran Admits Destroying Plane

63 Canadians were among those killed in the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 crash

By Mahita Gajanan January 8, 2020

Lawsuit Raises Questions About Perry's Role in Ukraine

A state-owned company is suing over an oil and gas contract won by an ally of the former Energy Secretary

By Simon Shuster / Kyiv December 16, 2019

How Zelensky Is Navigating His Role in Trump's Impeachment

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky is caught between a crumbling U.S. alliance and a hostile russia

By Simon Shuster/Kyiv December 5, 2019

Ukraine's Zelensky Speaks Out on Trump, Putin

Hardly six months into his tenure as the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has already learned to temper his expectations. He does not expect his first round of peace talks with Russia, which are scheduled...

By Simon Shuster / Kyiv December 2, 2019

Naftogaz CEO 'Willing' to Testify in Giuliani Probe

Federal prosecutors are investigating Giuliani for possible campaign finance violations and illegal lobbying

By Simon Shuster November 22, 2019

Joe Biden Says He's 'Embarrassed' for Lindsey Graham

'Lindsey is about to go down in a way I think he’s going to regret his whole life,' Biden said

By Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg November 22, 2019

Ukraine Wants to Probe the Company That Paid Hunter Biden. But It's 'Too Sensitive'

One of the troubling questions at the center of the impeachment inquiry, at least for Republicans, has been the work that Hunter Biden did for Burisma, one of Ukraine’s largest gas companies, while his father...

By Simon Shuster / Kyiv November 20, 2019

Ukraine Pro-Russia Politicians Back Trump’s Calls for Probe

As President Donald Trump faces another tough week of public testimony in the impeachment inquiry, his push for investigations in Ukraine has found an unexpected support base: Ukrainian lawmakers. In particular, some of the politicians...

By Simon Shuster / Kyiv November 19, 2019

Trump Aims at U.S. Diplomat, Shoots Himself in the Foot

'Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,' Trump tweeted during the hearing

By Brian Bennett November 15, 2019

Trump Ignored U.S. Intelligence Report on Ukraine

The report was considered the intelligence community's most authoritative assessment of the issue

By John Walcott November 14, 2019

Sondland Unraveled Trump's 'No Quid Pro Quo' Defense

The top diplomat said he refreshed his "recollection about certain conversations"

By Alana Abramson November 5, 2019

'I Don't Know'

Conway also denied that President Trump had asked for a quid pro quo

By Tara Law November 3, 2019

'Ultimately Alarming Circumstances.' Read Acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor's Full Opening Statement to Congressional Investigators

In Bill Taylor's opening statement to lawmakers, obtained by TIME, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine says that he was told that President Donald Trump would withhold military aid from the country until it publicly...

By TIME Staff October 22, 2019

If You Didn’t Already Think Trump Was Unfit for Office, Syria and Ukraine Should Change Your Mind

Throughout the 2016 presidential primaries and through the presidential campaign, those of us who were classified as “Never Trump” or “anti-Trump” conservatives repeated the same mantra, time and time again: Character is destiny. A man’s...

By David French October 17, 2019

Trump Tied Ukraine Funding to DNC Investigation: Mulvaney

Trump has denied there was a quid pro quo when it came to Ukraine military funding

By Brian Bennett October 17, 2019

Oligarch Helped With Biden Attacks

The legal team for Dmitry Firtash handed material to associates of Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani

By Simon Shuster October 15, 2019

Hunter Biden Admits 'Poor Judgment' in Ukraine

Hunter Biden, the son of the former Vice President, acknowledged having "poor judgment" in deciding to taking a position on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company on Monday — but firmly denied having...

By Tara Law October 15, 2019

'The Reboot of US-UKRAINE Relationship.' Here's What To Know About Newly-Released Texts Between Trump Diplomats and Ukrainian Presidential Aide

On Thursday night, Reps. Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff, and Elijah Cummings — who respectively chair the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight committees — released text messages between government officials discussing the United States' relationship...

By Abby Vesoulis October 4, 2019

Here Are the Key Players in Trump's Impeachment Inquiry

American intelligence officials, former Ukrainian prosecutors, Rudy Giuliani and others have emerged as key players as Congress examines the whistleblower complaint at the center of the impeachment inquiry.

By Sanya Mansoor October 3, 2019

How a College Reporter Broke a Ukraine Scandal Story

“We published the story, and 20 minutes later they were talking about the story on CNN”

By Tara Law September 29, 2019

What Happens Next With Trump, Ukraine and Impeachment

For two and a half years, Donald Trump has pursued an unorthodox “my nation first/my interests first” approach to governing the US with relatively minimal political blowback. But with formal impeachment inquiries launched against him...

By Ian Bremmer September 27, 2019

Key Parts of the Ukraine Whistleblower's Complaint

The whistleblower complaint detailing concerns over President Donald Trump’s July phone call with the Ukrainian president alleges that the President "is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in...

By Tara Law September 26, 2019

Ukraine Saw 'No Connection' With Aid and Trump Request

When President Donald Trump asked his counterpart in Ukraine to help investigate Trump’s political opponents, the Ukrainian President and his team did not see the request as linked to the release of U.S. military aid,...

By Simon Shuster September 26, 2019

Trump Thought Memo Release Would Quiet Democrats

These developments were the latest to rock Capitol Hill

By Alana Abramson September 25, 2019

Ukrainian President Denies Trump Pressured Him

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sat beside President Donald Trump on Wednesday as he denied that Trump pressured him to investigate former Vice President and current 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden's son for his work in...

By Tara Law September 25, 2019

Trump’s Damning Call With Ukraine’s President Demands an Impeachment Inquiry

The unredacted, declassified summary of Donald Trump’s July 25 telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky contains an express request that he work with Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and it creates a powerful inference...

By David French September 25, 2019

Read White House Summary of Trump's Ukraine Call

It is a summary rather than a verbatim transcript

By Madeleine Carlisle September 25, 2019

Ukraine Aid Frozen by Trump Administration Has Been Vital in the Country's Defense Against Russia

The supplies included protective vests and radar equipment, expanding to weapons

By Volodymyr Verbyany and Kateryna Choursina / Bloomberg September 25, 2019

Trump Is Leaving Congress No Choice But to Impeach

You don’t have to be a former prosecutor to understand what’s going on. Whistleblower laws are designed to protect against fraud and abuse in government. They make it possible for government employees to step forward...

By Joyce White Vance September 24, 2019

Ukraine Is Struggling to Make Sense of Trump and Bolton's Conflicting Messages on Russia

Like many of Ukraine’s political leaders, Oleksandr Danyliuk, the head of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine, had trouble making sense of the messages on Russia that have come out of the Trump...

By Simon Shuster / Kiev August 30, 2019

The Quick Read About… Ukraine’s Run-Off Presidential Elections

What Happens This Week: Ukrainians head to the polls this weekend to choose between a comedian who plays a Ukrainian president on TV and a chocolate baron who plays a Ukrainian president in real life....

By Ian Bremmer April 19, 2019

Ukraine Goes to the Polls on Sunday. Can Its Next President End the Frozen War With Russia?

Relations between Russia and Ukraine can perhaps be best described as somewhere between a war and a cold war. Before 2014, the Ukrainian government wanted a strategic partnership with Russia. Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in...

By Madeline Roache March 29, 2019

She Was Next in Line to Be the President. He Plays One on TV. Who Will Win Ukraine's Election?

At first it was hard to tell whether the clip was serious. Standing next to a Christmas tree, Volodymyr Zelensky, one of the most famous comedians in Ukraine, posted a video on New Year’s Eve...

By / Kiev March 28, 2019

He Faked His Own Death to Save His Life. Did He Discredit His Profession By Doing So?

Arkady Babchenko’s participation in a hoax sparked a debate about exactly how inviolable a journalist’s commitment to the truth should be

By Simon Shuster/Kiev December 11, 2018

Ukraine Blocks Russian Men From Entering

Amid heightening tensions between the two countries

By George Steer November 30, 2018

If Trump Doesn't Draw a Red Line on Ukraine, Putin Will Only Get Bolder

Moscow’s strategy in Ukraine and elsewhere is to push, in a slow creep fashion, to test the West

By Alina Polyakova November 28, 2018

Russia, Ukraine Tensions Flare After Sea Battle

The U.N. Security Council has called an emergency meeting

By Billy Perrigo November 26, 2018

Protests After Ukrainian Activist Dies From Acid Attack

Kateryna Handziuk suffered severe burns after being attacked with acid in July

By Eli Meixler November 5, 2018

A Ukrainian Who Faked His Own Death Was Recently Found Living in a Castle with a Rolls Royce

The fugitive was identified as “King of the Castle” by EU law-enforcement

By Jake Rudnitsky and Daryna Krasnolutska / Bloomberg October 16, 2018

The Strange Unreality of Life During Eastern Ukraine's Forgotten War

When Alina and Igor Leschina decided to marry this summer in Avdeevka, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine, they had two venue options: the local registry office with two small, dark rooms in a building...

By Alisa Sopova September 5, 2018

Trump's Envoy to Ukraine Urges U.S. Not to Forget Russia's War as Putin Summit Looms

“There’s literally fighting every night. There’s shells, mortars, snipers, people getting killed.”

By Simon Shuster July 9, 2018

Putin Is About to Win a 4th Term. Here's What He's Promised Russia

(And what he hasn't)

By Ian Bremmer March 16, 2018

How Paul Manafort Helped Elect Russia's Man in Ukraine

Donald Trump's onetime campaign chairman played an instrumental role in helping a pro-Kremlin party take power

By Simon Shuster / Kiev, Ukraine October 31, 2017

Biden Issues a New Warning to Russia Over Invading Ukraine

Ukraine Claims Russia Behind Cyberattack

Biden Reaffirms Commitment in Call With Ukraine's President

U.S. and Allies Weigh Reprisals If Russia Invades Ukraine