The Ukrainian Weekly, 2017

AUGUST 24 – UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXV No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017 $2.00 Ukraine denies Criticism shift s to Ukraine’s authorities, supplying North Korea while Russia’s war in the east continues by Isobel Koshiw ry], should leave and then they should close “Unlike at the beginning of the war, we with missile technology Special to The Ukrainian Weekly up the block posts.” don’t have problems with basic equipment Mr. Dedchenko’s chances of making a full and food,” said Yuriy Podolyan, a lieutenant Alleges Russia to blame KHARKIV, Ukraine – The Kharkiv recovery have just improved thanks to a colonel and military doctor at the Kharkiv Military Hospital has settled into the rou- $140,000 donation by the late Gregory hospital. “What we need is volunteer psy- by Christopher Miller tine of this simmering war. Around five to Malinowski to the United Ukrainian chologists and medical equipment.” RFE/RL 10 patients arrive each week. The 2014 revolution and the sub- KYIV – An anxious Kyiv has denied The head doctors say eight out With the war so far away for sequent war sparked an unprece- 10 soldiers admitted, which dented outburst of active patriotism a story in The New York Times quot- most, the Ukrainian population’s ing an expert as saying North Korea include those sick as well as in Ukraine that has been difficult to may have obtained rocket engines wounded, recover – though not attention has turned away from sustain. from a Ukrainian state-run factory necessarily psychologically. Russia and the war to the fail- With the war so far away for known as Yuzhmash, and instead The injured soldiers lie ban- most, and the threat of all-out war alleges Russia is to blame. daged up on modern-looking ures of Ukraine’s authorities less acute, the population’s atten- Citing a report by the International hospital beds. Demoralized, and the country’s economic woes. tion has turned away from Russia Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) they say they are being used as and the war to the failures of and classified assessments by U.S. fodder because under the Minsk Ukraine’s authorities and the coun- intelligence agencies, The Times on agreements they are rarely allowed to American Relief Committee. The money try’s economic woes. August 14 reported that Pyongyang’s answer enemy fire. While they understand was used to buy and ship American physi- More than 60 percent of the population recent progress in its long-range mis- that without Russia there would be no war, cal therapy equipment to three hospitals, say their household income has significant- sile program may be due to it having they lament that Ukraine’s authorities have including the Kharkiv hospital, and hospi- ly or somewhat worsened since 2014, and obtained advanced engine technology no strategy to end it. tals in Poltava and Dnipro. Before, soldiers the majority named price increases as their from Ukraine or Russia. “If they wanted to end this war, they would have to try to receive treatment at primary concern, according to a July survey But the secretary of Ukraine’s could in two weeks,” said Artur Dedchenko, one of the three rehabilitation centers in on the public mood by the International National Security and Defense Council who lies with his leg up in a cast. “Everyone Ukraine. Now they can use one of these (NSDC), Oleksandr Turchynov, insisted who wants to leave [the occupied territo- gym-like rooms at the hospitals. (Continued on page 12) that could not be the case. “Ukraine has never supplied rocket engines or any kind of missile technology to North Korea,” he said in a strongly worded statement published Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk, formerly of Lviv, on the council’s website. “We believe that this anti-Ukrainian campaign was enthroned as fi ft h eparch of St. Nicholas in Chicago triggered by Russian secret services to cover their participation in the North CHICAGO – Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk Korean nuclear and missile programs.” was enthroned as the fifth eparch of St. Moscow has not commented on the Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy in report or Ukraine’s allegations. Chicago, which includes most of the central In its own statement, Yuzhmash and western United States, including said it “has never before and does not Hawaii and Alaska. The services took place have anything to do with North on June 29 at St. Nicholas Cathedral, which Korean missile programs of a space or was filled to overflowing by the faithful, defense nature.” The company also hierarchs, clergy and monastics. said The Times report was “provoca- The Ukrainian-born Bishop Benedict tive” and “based on an incompetent (Venedykt), 49, previously served as auxil- expert opinion.” iary bishop of Lviv. He is a Ukrainian Michael Elleman, the expert and Studite monk; he was ordained a priest in author of the report for the London- Lviv 25 years ago and as a bishop in based IISS, told The New York Times September 2010. His appointment as that he believed the Yuzhmash missile eparch of Chicago was announced in April factory, located in the eastern Ukrainian by Pope Francis. city of Dnipro, was “the most likely Vespers on the eve of the Feast of the source of the engines” that powered Apostles Ss. Peter and Paul were celebrated North Korea’s two intercontinental bal- by hierarchs, priests, deacons and monas- listic missiles in July. tics gathered from throughout North Photography by Stanley As part of his analysis, Mr. Elleman America and Europe, joined by throngs of Patriarch Sviatoslav with the new eparch of Chicago, Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk. speculated that Yuzhmash employees faithful from near and far to fill the cathedral to near capacity. facilitate the flow and cadence, whether ies down Rice Street in Chicago’s Ukrainian might have been motivated to send the singing in English or Ukrainian – along with Village to the bishop’s chancery where rocket technology to Pyongyang The next morning, among those attend- a smattering of Greek to reflect the ancient Patriarch Sviatoslav, primate of the because the plant had “fallen on hard ing the enthronement services of the new origins of the Byzantine liturgical family to Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, and times” financially amid political eparch were hierarchs of other Churches which the Ukrainian Church belongs. Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic upheaval and conflict in recent years. sui juris of the Catholic Church. Clergy and laity alike were able to participate together Just before noon, a procession of the nuncio to the United States, were waiting to (Continued on page 14) with the complete text of the services pro- ranks of clergy was joined by altar servers vided in bilingual booklets available to and representatives of parishes and societ- (Continued on page 9) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017 No. 34 WINDOW ON EURASIA Vladimir Putin’s luck has run out Report: North Korea makes own engines assessments by U.S. intelligence agencies, said that “North Korea’s success in testing an WASHINGTON – The Reuters news agen- intercontinental ballistic missile that and Russians know it, analyst says cy is quoting U.S. intelligence officials as say- appears able to reach the United States was ing they believe North Korea can produce made possible by black-market purchases of “Putin, at that time young, energetic and its own missile engines and does not need by Paul Goble powerful rocket engines, probably from a advanced, worked in a different way.” He to import the technology from Ukraine. The Ukrainian factory.” Ukrainian officials have The 18th anniversary of Vladimir established better relations with those in Reuters report on August 15 provides back- already denied the story. (RFE/RL’s Putin’s accession to power is an appropri- the West then in power, and again it looked ing to Ukraine, which has denied supplying Ukrainian Service) ate occasion to remember that the success- like it was his doing. North Korea with any missile technology, es of the Kremlin leader and those of But in fact, Mr. Shelin says, this was pos- and runs counter to a new study by the U.S.: Respect Georgia’s sovereignty Russia as a whole aren’t “one and the same sible because of the kind of leaders then in International Institute for Strategic Studies thing, however much his regime tries to office in the West: Gerhard Schroeder, which said that Pyongyang probably WSHINGTON – U.S. State Department promote the opposite view,” according to Silvio Berlusconi, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas obtained the engines used in its latest ballis- spokesperson Heather Nauert on August 9 Rosbalt commentator Sergey Shelin. Sarkozy, Tony Blair and George W. Bush. tic-missile tests on the black market from issued a statement in which the United From antiquity, philosophers and rulers Mr. Putin drew the entirely unjustified con- factories in Ukraine or Russia. Reuters quot- States calls on Russia to respect Georgia’s have recognized that it is better to be lucky clusion that the West would always be ed one U.S. intelligence official as saying: sovereignty. The statement read: “The than to be talented, the Russian commenta- ruled by such people. His failures with “We have intelligence to suggest that North United States views the visit of President tor observes. That is because “talent does Donald Trump are thus only the latest Korea is not reliant on imports of engines. [Vladimir] Putin to the Russian-occupied not bring success every time, but you can’t example of his luck in that regard having ...Instead, we judge they have the ability to Georgian territory of Abkhazia as inappro- argue with achievements.

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