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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2021 INSIDE: l Obituary: George Sawchak, Ukrainian Sports Hall of Fame member – page 4 l UNWLA fashion show to spotlight Ukrainian designers – page 9 l Leonid Poltava: celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth – page 12 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXIX No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2021 $2.00 U.S. announces fresh military aid to Ukraine In White House meeting, Biden assures Zelenskyy as Zelenskyy visits Washington of U.S. support against ‘Russian aggression’ Office of the President of Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Office of the President of Ukraine Oval Office on September 1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during the president’s trip to the United States on September 1. by Todd Prince “The United States remains firmly com- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty mitted to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territo- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty The Biden Administration said in a noti- rial integrity in the face of Russian aggres- fication to Congress cited by the AP news WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden sion and our support for Ukraine’s Euro- Washington promised Kyiv up to $60 agency on August 31 that the aid package assured his Ukrainian counterpart Volody- Atlantic aspirations,” Mr. Biden told the million in military aid before U.S. President for Ukraine was necessary because of a myr Zelenskyy that the United States Ukrainian president in the Oval Office on Joe Biden and his visiting Ukrainian coun- “major increase in Russian military activity stands behind Kyiv against “Russian September 1. terpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met in the aggression” in a widely anticipated meeting White House on September 1. (Continued on page 6) at the White House. (Continued on page 5) ‘Biggest’ recent collection of Soviet-era mass In a bold and dangerous military operation, Ukrainian troops graves discovered in Black Sea city of Odesa evacuated Canada-bound Afghani translators from Kabul Site includes 29 mass graves dating by Roman Tymotsko ed the vehicles so that they could travel the final 600 meters to the airport. to Stalin’s Great Terror LVIV – Members of the Ukrainian mili- “The convoy entered [the airport] tary stationed at the airport in the Afghan because the Ukrainians came out. We just The Kyiv-based Ukrainian Institute of by Mark Raczkiewycz capital of Kabul conducted a bold operation sent them the plate numbers of our vehi- National Memory confirmed the discov- KYIV – Four days before Ukraine cele- in the early morning hours of August 27 to cles, and they came to the local bazaar to ery two days later saying it is one the big- evacuate Afghani translators working with find us,” Mohammed Sharif Sharaf told the brated its 30th anniversary of renewed gest “mass graves” from the Soviet era independence, a local historian in the the Canadian army and a Canadian news- Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, found in recent history. paper. which first reported the story. Black Sea port city of Odesa reported Mr. Babich, who heads two nonprofits finding 29 mass graves where victims of The operation to rescue the translators “They [the Afghani translators] said called Odessa City Tours and Society and took place a day after the last Canadian ‘Ukraine?’ We said ‘Yes!’ and they took us Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s Great Terror Historical Heritage, quipped that he has of 1937-1938 were buried. plane took off from Afghanistan and hours inside,” said Mr. Sharaf, a 49-year-old father now become an expert on “Soviet terror.” after a terrorist attack took place at the of five who spent 10 years as a fixer and Oleksandr Babich’s Facebook post on The work for the two nonprofits involves August 20 slowly gained traction as he gates of Hamid Karzai International Airport. translator who worked with The Globe and giving historical tours or showing tour- joined a team of researchers to measure After the attack, the United States said it Mail to cover Canada’s role in the war in ists catacombs in the city where Soviet the metes and bounds of the discovery would allow only foreign nationals to enter Afghanistan. partisans resisted the Nazi German-led situated southwest of the city where the airport, but not Afghans with visas. Two previous attempts, one by the occupation during World War II. metal garages were slated to be relocat- Despite the limitation, and with a grow- Canadian military and another by the U.S. ed amid an expansion of the airport on Preparations for exhumation at the ing risk to coalition forces ahead of the State Department, to evacuate citizens from the outskirts of the city. 4.7-hectare (11.6-acre) site have com- planned withdrawal of the last U.S. force on the airport in Kabul were unsuccessful. As a Approximately 8,500 victims shot by menced, he said, and bullet shell casings, August 31, Ukrainian special forces troops result, Mr. Sharaf’s group could not get to the Soviet-era NKVD – the predecessor of human bones, Soviet coins and clothing marched into the city to escort two mini- the airport to leave the country. In the the internal security and counterintelli- buttons from that period have already buses filled with 19 Afghans to the airport failed operations, the Canadians and their gence agency of the KGB – are believed been uncovered. Mr. Babich added that so that they could be evacuated. families needed to reach specific meeting to be buried at the site, Mr. Babich told The soldiers, using photos of the license points near the airport gates, but doing so The Ukrainian Weekly over the phone. (Continued on page 3) plates on the minibuses, identified the cor- rect vehicles. They surrounded and escort- (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2021 No. 36 ANALYSIS Zelenskyy returns to Kyiv to continue Zelenskyy and Biden summit ‘productive’ occupied Crimea. He said that the United States praised the idea to create the Crimea Ukrainian President Volodymyr Platform. “This is a very powerful initiative the political struggle at home Zelenskyy said that his meeting on according to the United States. They want September 1 with U.S. President Joseph support Washington is currently offering to support this initiative. Crimea has been by Bohdan Nahaylo Biden took place in a productive and con- Ukraine to move decisively in this direc- mentioned many times. Regarding the de- structive atmosphere, and that both parties As President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tion. This support surpasses what the occupation of Crimea, with regard to pris- are interested in a fruitful dialogue. “I don’t returns home after a successful working U.S. has offered Ukraine in total assis- oners,” Mr. Zelenskyy said. He noted that he know if there was ‘chemistry,’ but the fact visit to the United States, his attention tance for defense purposes. proposed to involve at the level presidential that the meeting lasted two hours instead will now have to switch to pressing Mr. Zelenskyy has managed temporari- level the United States in the process of of an hour shows that the parties are inter- domestic issues. The Ukrainian parlia- ly to find a way around the restraints peaceful settlement of the conflict in the ested in the dialogue and the outcome of ment is shortly due to reconvene after its imposed by a corrupt judiciary and flawed Donbas. The two men also discussed this dialogue. I believe that the meeting was summer recess, and the political battles democratic institutions by using executive threats from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline held in a normal, productive, not in a con- over critical issues will be reconvened power to endorse decisions made by the project during their Oval Office meeting. stantly sunny atmosphere, but in a direct with vigor. National Security and Defense Council Mr. Zelenskyy said that Mr. Biden assured conversation,” Mr. Zelenskyy said during a In light of this, and bearing in mind that (NSDC). It in turn, he has argued that him that, in the event of any threat to conversation with the media in Washington Ukraine has just celebrated the 30th anni- Ukraine is in a state of war with Russia Ukraine’s energy security from the Russian after the talks with Mr. Biden. Mr. Zelenskyy versary of it’s breaking free from the and it is acting in the interests of national Federation or other parties to the pipeline said Mr. Biden gave him a positive assess- Soviet empire, it is worth recalling what security. The president has also said that project, the United States will enforce sanc- ment of the reforms being implemented in the main current political conflicts are and he will not hesitate to turn directly to the tions against Nord Stream 2. “I believe that Ukraine. “He especially noted the land and seeing what the mood of the country is people, if necessary, through the use of this is a great victory for us, although it is a judicial reforms. Everyone sees infrastruc- three decades after it affirmed its referenda. complicated issue,” Mr. Zelenskyy said. He tural changes in Ukraine and some kind of renewed independence. This tactic caught his opponents off also invited Mr. Biden to visit Ukraine. a result. I am pleased that they see positive Essentially, the battle lines established guard, but they have regrouped and are (Office of the President of Ukraine) things at the level of the president of the after Mr. Zelenskyy’s unexpected landslide accusing him of violating democratic and United States,” Mr.
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