Category: Lukian Selskyi

In New York, we once again expect a grand fair of politics – the United Nations General Assembly. Against this backdrop, a meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump looks like a climactic – important yet not autonomous – frame.

Over the last two or three years, we all keep catching ourselves thinking that Ukraine is fighting on two fronts, and this second one—the economic front—is less tragic, less media-driven and spectacular, but no less critical...

In Charlotte, North Carolina, a Ukrainian woman was murdered. Iryna Zarutska, 23 years old. She arrived under the Uniting for Ukraine program, worked at a pizzeria, and dreamed of building a life after fleeing Kyiv. Beautiful and young. She sought safety but found death in a Lynx Blue Line train car, when a homeless man with a criminal past drove a knife into her neck...

Americans often think of an attack on democracy as something spectacular: cyberattacks on power grids, agents exposed with explosions in downtown areas, spy scandals. In reality, the modern undermining of a system works much more prosaically – through small, everyday campaigns that hardly anyone pays attention to.

We love simple numbers. They give an illusion of clarity. Thirty-four years, and it would seem everything is said. But nations do not live within the boundaries of calendars, for they exist in subtler dimensions—memory, imagination, language, or even the repeated gestures of everyday life. That is why the answer to a childlike, yet profoundly adult question—“So how old are we?”

“All things can be justified by a lofty purpose—except the emptiness of the soul.” This formula of Pavlo Tychyna painfully cuts into today’s reality. When politics neglects morality, grand agreements become a façade for the capitulation of values...

When U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene hinted that she no longer feels a connection with the Republican Party, many read it as yet another flare-up of the same “dislike of Ukrainians” that is allegedly spreading across America. But the provocative question “why do Americans dislike Ukrainians?” is a false frame.

It has been six months since the new administration in Washington assumed full executive power, and Ukrainians in America still live in two time zones at once—tracking the flight of missiles and drones over Ukrainian cities while following developments on Capitol Hill, where decisions are made that shape the intensity of those strikes...

For several days this past week, Ukraine’s battered—but unbroken—capital barely flinched at the wail of air raid sirens. In Moscow, the Kremlin’s mafia minded elite held its breath, convinced that events in Kyiv would topple the “Kyiv regime.” Even missiles and drones were kept on standby—“let the Ukrainians finish themselves off,” or so the logic went.

Будь-яку людину, яка живе паралельно у двох інформаційних просторах – американському та українському, – нинішній тиждень буквально вибив із колії. Верховна…