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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2020 INSIDE: l Ukrainian president at Munich Security Conference – page 4 l Chicagoans mark Ukraine’s Day of Unity – page 11 l Community: Boston, SW Florida, Maplewood, LA – pages 16-17 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association, Inc., celebrating W its 125th anniversaryEEKLY Vol. LXXXVIII No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2020 $2.00 Kyiv Boryspil International Airport UNA concludes 125th anniversary celebrations unveils memorial to victims of PS752 with event in its birthplace, Shamokin, Pa. by Roman Tymotsko Ukraine is demanding all the truth about the PS752 crash. KYIV – Ukrainian officials opened a One month before the memorial cere- memorial at Kyiv Boryspil International mony, on January 18, the head of the inci- Airport on February 17, marking the tradi- dent investigation department of the tional 40th day of mourning after the trage- Organization of Civil Aviation of Iran, dy of Ukraine International Airlines Flight Hassan Rezaiefar, had said that the black 752 (PS752). The monument commemo- boxes from the UIA airliner would be sent rates the 176 victims of the Ukrainian pas- to Ukraine. According to the Iranian agency senger jet that was shot down by Iran’s Tasnim, he also said that he had repeatedly Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in met with the Ukraine’s panel of experts. Mr. Tehran on January 8. Rezaiefar also noted that the information The five-country investigation – involv- from the black boxes was not read in Iran ing Canada, Ukraine, Sweden, Afghanistan and said the flight recorders would be ana- and the United Kingdom – of the shoot- lyzed in Kyiv, using the experience of down is still in progress, with some difficul- France, Canada and the United States. ty regarding cooperation by Iran. But the next day, Mr. Rezaiefar, in a com- A stone with the inscription “PS752, ment to the Iranian news agency IRNA said 08.01.2020” was unveiled at Boryspil air- that Iranian experts were trying to deci- port. Relatives of the victims, Ukraine’s pher the black boxes of the Ukrainian plane Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystaiko, in Iran and had not made the decision to Secretary of the National Security and transfer them to other countries. Earlier, he Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov had said that since the plane was a modern Bishop Andriy Rabiy and the Rev. Mykola Ivanov with the Dzvin Ukrainian Male and UIA President Yevhen Dyhne attended Boeing 737 and Iran has no technology to Choir in Transfiguration of the Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church in Shamokin, Pa. the ceremony. Representatives of decipher its black boxes, they could be sent Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, Germany, Iran to France. by Oksana Koziak A hierarchical divine liturgy, celebrated and Sweden, which lost citizens in the At present, the flight recorders are still by Auxiliary Bishop Andriy Rabiy of the downing, were also present. in Iran. SHAMOKIN, Pa. – Bringing the Ukrainian Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan “I want to bow my head in mourning for Meanwhile, Iran offered families of the National Association’s 125th anniversary Archeparchy of Philadelphia, was held at all those lost in this flight,” Minister Prystaiko victims compensation of $80,000 per per- Year to a close, a commemorative event Transfiguration of the Lord Ukrainian said at the ceremony. “It should have never son. Foreign Affairs Minister Prystaiko said was held on February 9 in the city of happened; it should not have occurred in a that Ukraine rejected this proposal because Shamokin, Pa., the birthplace of the UNA. (Continued on page 9) world where the law exists. We are actively the compensation should be much higher. working to restore justice and hold those He pointed out that $80,000 is a standard responsible accountable. We will demand compensation in Iranian legislation and fair compensation for this tragedy. Our goal said negotiations are continuing. NEWS ANALYSIS: Ukraine seeks peace, now is to get full access to the airplane’s “What Ukraine will agree on will be paid black boxes. We have working contacts with to citizens of all countries, including Iran. but Russian forces attack in the Donbas interested partners who have relevant This was our fundamental position, and we experience in investigating such crashes.” reached it,” said Mr. Prystaiko “I under- by Bohdan Nahaylo ated most recently within the context of While addressing the media, Mr. stand that nothing can pay for the lives of U.S. political infighting. Prystaiko stressed that the investigation KYIV – During the last week or so, talk of Yet hardly had the Munich Security into the crash is still under way, and (Continued on page 9) peace at the annual high-level Munich Conference ended than a localized, but Security Conference was deafened by the fierce, attack on Ukrainian positions in the sound of intensified gunfire from Russian Donbas raised new concerns about the forces in the Donbas. The flare-up in the prospects for launching a peace process and fighting highlighted once again the gulf the Kremlin’s motives. Significantly, among between the search for peace proclaimed those who expressed their apprehension by Ukraine’s Zelenskyy administration and was the host of the Munich forum, Germany, the realities on the ground reflecting which together with France, Ukraine and Moscow’s enduring intransigence. Russia, is one of the Normandy Four. On the eve of the Munich forum, held on The Munich Security Conference itself February 14-15, there were hopes in some got off to a controversial start. The Euro- quarters that it would reinforce the begin- Atlantic Security Leadership Group nings of a new dialogue between Kyiv and (EASLG), a group of American, European Moscow created in Paris in December 2019 and Russian former government officials at the Normandy Four format summit. and think tank experts, including several Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Ukrainians, issued a joint statement titled appeared to have the tactical advantage as “Twelve Steps Toward Greater Security in his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Ukraine and the Euro-Atlantic Region” was not attending. Evidently, the Ukrainian designed to serve as recommendations to leader hoped to make use of this major bring greater security to Ukraine and the international event to promote Ukraine’s Serhii Nuzhnenko/RadioSvoboda.org Euro-Atlantic region. This unofficial discus- Mourners lay flowers at the new memorial at Kyiv Boryspil International Airport to cause and interests and to counter its the victims of the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752. image as a hopelessly corrupt state gener- (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2020 No. 8 ANALYSIS Russian-Ukrainian gas transit deal: A collapse Ukrainian soldier killed, four wounded OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Edi Rama and Secretary-General Thomas Greminger said Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said one of its they regretted reports of casualties, while of Putin’s gas strategy or a temporary retreat? soldiers was killed and four were wounded calling for “restraint and full respect” for in clashes that occurred early on February natural gas (LNG) challenges Gazprom’s the latest ceasefire that was brokered in by Alla Hurska 18 near the town of Zolote in the Luhansk supplies to Europe (see EDM, April 16, Paris in December, according to a February Eurasia Daily Monitor region. The ministry accused the Russian- 2019). LNG is expected to play an increas- 18 news release. “This latest incident is not backed separatists of violating ceasefire ingly important role in Europe, whose isolated,” Mr. Rama said. “Every day the CONCLUSION agreements by shelling Ukrainian positions imports of natural gas in liquefied form ceasefire is violated, despite the undertak- on the line of contact. Meanwhile, the leader Kyiv and Moscow finalized a bilateral have already increased by 75 percent in ings set out in the Minsk agreements, and of the militants in the Luhansk region, deal to transport Russian natural gas to 2019 (Topwar.ru, January 16, 2020). the explicit commitment to ‘a full and com- Yakov Osadchy, said four separatist fighters Europe through Ukrainian territory (See Additionally, continued geopolitical ten- prehensive implementation of the cease- were killed and four were wounded in the Part I in Eurasia Daily Monitor, January 22). sions between Russia and Ukraine and fire’ agreed in Paris two months ago.” Mr. clashes, which he said started when a group Although the new five-year agreement on uncertainty over the outcome of the gas Greminger, meanwhile, urged “all sides to of Ukrainian soldiers tried to enter separat- gas transit signed on December 30, 2019, transit negotiations late last year had pro- exercise maximum restraint,” adding that ist-controlled territory but entered a mine- represented a compromise for both coun- voked European countries to pump more “the positive steps” taken in recent months field. The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv reacted to tries, it proved an especially difficult and surplus gas into their own underground to de-escalate the conflict “should not be the events, calling on Moscow to fulfill its painful decision for Russia. storage sites. undone.” Ukraine and Russia-backed sepa- During the last five years, the Kremlin obligations outlined in earlier peace agree- ratists exchanged accusations over the lat- Furthermore, Gazprom is losing clients ments. The 2015 Minsk agreement is a has been seeking to eliminate Russia’s due to successful European efforts to diver- est deadly clashes in the country’s east on dependency on the Ukrainian gas transit peace plan that was brokered by France and February 18. It was the most intense fight- sify gas supplies and to open the gas market Germany in the Belarussian capital and set a corridor. Two major Russian pipeline proj- to competition. On January 1, Gazprom lost ing the six-year war has seen in months ects, the 55-billion-cubic-meter (bcm) Nord series of ceasefires in eastern Ukraine that and the heaviest since President Volodymyr its monopoly in the Finnish gas market have generally failed to hold.
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