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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2020 INSIDE: l UCCA meets with Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister – page 5 l Book on ‘new faces’ in Ukrainian Catholic Church – page 11 l Community: Connecticut, Florida, Delaware – page 12 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXVIII No. 9 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2020 $2.00 Six years on, Maidan investigation Wuhan evacuees met in Ukraine may finally be rebooted with protests, miscommunication by Bohdan Nahaylo intervened with the Verkhovna Rada to Government reassures public prevent delays and inaction that lawyers KYIV – On February 20 Ukraine representing the Heavenly Hundred that situation is under control marked the sixth anniversary of the kill- feared would cause the investigation’s ing of scores of participants in the Euro- collapse. Responding to their urgent Maidan in central Kyiv – the Heroes of appeal, he managed to persuade national the Heavenly Hundred as they have deputies to expedite the amendment of become known. It saw renewed expres- laws streamlining the work of the State sions of anger and frustration about the Bureau of Investig ation that would failure to bring the perpetrators to jus- ensure the transfer by January 11 to the tice and an intensification of recrimina- SBI of the Maidan cases under investiga- tions about the handling of the case both tion and secure their continuity. before and under the current adminis- The pressure on the Zelenskyy admin- tration of President Volodymyr istration to produce results has come not Zelenskyy. only from the relatives and lawyers of the Mr. Zelenskyy, who inherited this sen- victims, and concerned sections of soci- sitive issue from the previous president, ety, but also increasingly from those chal- Petro Poroshenko, blames the lack of lenging the generally accepted heroic and progress on flaws in the judicial system patriotic Ukrainian narrative about what and alleged lack of political will on the occurred. Press Service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine part of his predecessors. On February 11, From the outset, Moscow had pro- At a briefing in Kyiv about efforts to prevent the coronavirus from entering Ukraine he told Interfax-Ukraine that “the most moted its own fake conspiracy theories (from left) are: the head of the State Border Guard Service, Serhiy Deyneko, Prime complicated case in our country is the to undermine Ukraine’s Revolution of Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk and Deputy Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko. Maidan.” Dignity, and these were taken up in films by Roman Tymotsko An angry mob attacked the bus trans- Mr. Zelenskyy acknowledged that evi- shown in Israel, the Netherlands and porting evacuees from Kharkiv’s airport to dence has been lost and the scene of the elsewhere. On January 21, the conserva- KYIV – On February 20, a Ukrainian air- a sanatorium in the Poltava region for a crime tampered with. For the moment tive One America News Network broad- plane evacuated 45 citizens of Ukraine and two-week period of quarantine. The pro- he could still not say when those who cast a production featuring a former 27 foreigners from the city of Wuhan, test turned millions of eyes to the town of gave the orders would be found, but gave campaign adviser to Donald Trump China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 out- Novi Sanzhary and elicited countless ques- assurances that the matter is being called “The Ukrainian Hoax: break. After stops in Almaty and Kyiv, and tions; many cited the lack of pertinent “dealt with faster than several years Impeachment, Biden, Cash, and Mass circling in the sky as it awaited clearance to information that should have been shared before” and that “we are doing the Murder with guest host Michael Caputo.” land, the chartered plane arrived in with the public. utmost” to complete the investigations. This far-right U.S. TV channel in effect In fact, in the second half of November Kharkiv. But the most challenging part of 2019, President Zelenskyy personally (Continued on page 12) the journey was still ahead. (Continued on page 4) Chicago community honors the memory of Maidan’s Heavenly Hundred by Marta Farion CHICAGO – On the sixth anniversary of the bloody kill- ings that took place on Kyiv’s Maidan between February 18 and 21, 2014, during the Revolution of Dignity, Ukrainians throughout the world remembered and honored the vic- tims. More than 100 heroes were killed, dozens disap- peared and hundreds were tortured on those fateful days. On February 21, Chicago’s Ukrainian community com- memorated the tragic events at an event hosted by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Illinois Division, and the Ukrainian National Museum. Members of the community gathered outdoors holding 100 candles symbolizing the Heavenly Hundred (Nebesna Sotnia in Ukrainian) at a memorial service led by the Rev. Serhiy Kovalchuk and the Rev. Roman Bobesyuk, both from St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, and the Rev. Ivan Lymar of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral. Lida Tkachuk, president of the Ukrainian National Museum, and Ihor Diaczun, president of the UCCA-Illinois Division, opened the program with a reminder that the memory of the heroes will never die, as generations will pay homage to them through Ukraine’s history. Maria Melnyk Some of the Chicago community members who participated in an outdoor vigil on February 21 in remembrance of (Continued on page 5) the Heavenly Hundred. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2020 No. 9 ANALYSIS Ukrainian-Turkish defense cooperation White House extends Russia sanctions Crimean Tatar TV seeks EU funding U.S. President Donald Trump has Ukraine’s only remaining Crimean Tatar and the Akinci project’s strike drone extended for one year a series of previously television channel, ATR, has submitted a imposed sanctions on Russia over its plea to the European Parliament and by Yuri Lapaiev long-range missiles, which can hit targets actions in Ukraine, in particular, forcibly European Commission asking the institu- Eurasia Daily Monitor up to 250 kilometers away and uses stealth annexing the Crimean peninsula and fur- tions for financial support as it faces immi- technology. The UAVs will be able to take ther destabilizing the country. The presi- nent closure due to lack of funding. Posted Bilateral Ukrainian-Turkish cooperation off, fly and land in full- and semi-automatic dent’s executive order was signed on on its website on February 24, ATR’s request in the defense sector continues unabated flight modes. The ground-control station February 25 and includes a package of cites a resolution by the European even after the consequential 2019 elections (which comes in three types: trailer, shelter sanctions that have expanded in scope over Parliament from February 4, 2016, that in both countries. On January 23, the Joint and indoor) for Akinci units will include time since March 6, 2014. They were first “deplored the wrongful closure of the ATR Ukrainian-Turkish Commission on Defense- multiple consoles for various operators introduced by the administration of former media outlet” on Ukraine’s Crimean penin- Industrial Cooperation met again, in Kyiv (radar, payload, pilot, maintenance, etc.). President Barack Obama and broadened sula due to Russia’s annexation two years (Ukrainian government, January 23). This The Ukrainian side announced the proj- three more times in 2014 as well as in earlier. According to ATR, the resolution time, the Turkish delegation was headed by ect for the first time last August 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the European Commission to pro- the vice-president of the Undersecretariat (Ukroboronprom, August 20, 2019). gave the order to invade Crimea in early vide financial assistance to the Crimean for Defense Industries of the Republic of According to the CEO of Ukroboronprom, 2014 after the Moscow-friendly Ukrainian Tatar channel as well as other media in exile Turkey, Serdar Demirel, whereas, the Pavlo Bukin, the UAV will be produced president, Viktor Yanukovych, abandoned in Ukraine. “Nowadays, more than ever, ATR Ukrainian side was represented by Deputy mostly for Turkish and Ukrainian armed office and fled the country amid a popular TV-Channel needs financial support from Minister of Defense for European Integra- forces but could also be prepared for uprising that opposed his increasingly cor- institutions of the European Union, because tion Anatolii Petrenko. export. The Ukroboronoprom head also rupt and authoritarian rule. Moscow then it is on the edge of closing and has lost all The goal of this inter-governmental stressed that the Akinci would use the started supporting militants in eastern hope to receive financing in the nearest body’s latest assembly was to discuss fur- same types of heavy munitions as conven- Ukraine in a war that has killed more than future from its own state,” the letter said in ther steps toward realizing a series of joint tional combat planes, which was made pos- 13,000 people and uprooted more than 1.5 English, Ukrainian and Russian. The state- armament and military equipment proj- sible by equipping the drone with the million people from their homes in the ment said that since 2015, ATR has been ects. The last top-level meeting on this Ukrainian AI-450C engines. This could be Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Mr. Trump’s mostly reliant on funding from the topic was held in October 2019, between seen as a potential benefit for UAV opera- order says Russia’s actions, including its Ukrainian government but lately it has Secretary of the National Security and tors, because it will allow those forces to “purported annexation of Crimea and use encountered bureaucratic obstacles in Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov stockpile fewer variations of munitions, of force in Ukraine... undermine democratic accessing allocated money from this year’s and Ambassador Extraordinary and thus simplifying logistics.
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