Ukraine

Ukraine honours two Poles for presenting truth about The Great Famine

Anne Applebaum (L) is the author of the book 'Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine', Agnieszka Holland (R)is the director of 'Gareth Jones', a film which tells the story of a young Welsh journalist who in the 1930's was one of the first people to report on what was happening in Ukraine. Wojciech Pacewicz, Marcin Obara/PAP

Polish film director Agnieszka Holland and the American-Polish journalist and publicist Anne Applebaum have been honoured with high state distinctions by Ukraine for their work on portraying the truth about The Great Famine of 1932-33.

All things great and small: Poland’s tiniest café is showing what big dreams are made of

From immeasurably modest beginnings, this Ukrainian couple have become role models for the entrepreneurial spirits, and their six metre café a bastion of inter-national relations.

Ukrainian war veteran released after border detention

Ukrainian Donbas war veteran Ihor Mazur, detained by Polish Border Guard at a Polish-Ukrainian border crossing was released on Sunday but will remain in Lublin, south-east Poland, until the conclusion of an extradition procedure.

Ukraine agrees to Polish exhumations on two sites

Ukraine has given Poland the green light to start searches for the remains of Polish soldiers who died during Poland's defensive war of 1939 near Lviv, Polish president's chief aide Krzysztof Szczerski has told PAP. The permit concerns two sites.

Wizz Air launches new connections from Poland

Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air has launched new flight connections from Gdansk, northern Poland, Katowice, southern Poland and Warsaw to Ukraine, Norway and Israel, the carrier said on Monday.

Polish Traces: Lviv, Ukraine

Krzysztof arrives in the beautiful, UNESCO-listed city of Lviv where he learns about efforts to keep the memories of former residents such as Stanislaw Ulam, the Polish scientist specialising in mathematics and nuclear physics and who later worked on the Manhattan Project, alive.

Ukrainian director thanks Poles for help in release from Russian prison

Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and social activist from Crimea, who was a political prisoner in Russian between 2014 and 2019, gave thanks in Warsaw on Tuesday to all those who had helped secure his release.

Poland invited to Ukraine to search for remains of Soviet regime victims

Experts from Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) will search for the remains of Polish victims of the Soviet regime in Western Ukraine, the Polish embassy in Kiev said on Friday.

Polish specialists to help train Ukrainians in combat trauma therapy

Specialists from Warsaw's Military Medical Institute (WIM) will assist Ukrainian personnel in the development of a care system for soldiers with combat trauma, in an initiative funded by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Better pay and longer stay – Ukrainians in Poland say they feel ‘more at home’

Research carried out jointly by EWL, a human resources company, and Warsaw University’s Centre for Eastern European Studies, looked into the earnings and working habits of some of thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians who have moved across their nation’s western border in what is regarded as one of Europe’s largest peace-time migrations since the end of the WWII.

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