Tired, but satisfied Olena Zelenska meets the Ukrainian journalists somewhere in Manhattan on Sept. 23 – the last day of her 3-day visit to New York. Zelenska came to the U.S. together with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to represent Ukraine at the 77th United Nations General Assembly. 

The full-scale Russian war against Ukraine has already destroyed Ukraine's infrastructure, energy facilities, schools, hospitals, and private property, leaving thousands of Ukrainians homeless. The invasion has already cost $340 billion in damages to Ukraine as of September.

The UN Security Council’s first high-level meeting on Ukraine since the start of the war on Feb. 24 in New York was full of emotion.

New York, United Nations – As many world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly High-Level week, more and more of them talk about Ukraine and how Russia’s invasion has affected everybody, causing a lack of food and a hike in energy prices.

During the closed meeting  Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield reaffirmed the United States’ unwavering support of Ukraine to defend its sovereign territory against Russia’s unprovoked aggression, U.S. Mission to the United Nations Spokesperson Nate Evans said in a statement. 

The United Nations humanitarian organizations still have no access to the Ukrainian children, who went to schools in Russia and in the occupied territories of Ukraine this year.

Our world is blighted by war, battered by climate chaos, scarred by hate, and shamed by poverty, hunger, and inequality.  Conflicts and unrest continue to rage.   

Russia carried out a missile strike on a dam in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the evening of Sept. 14, raising fears in Ukraine that Moscow, defeated on the battlefield, will now step up its attacks on civilian targets.

I am reading Sophocles’ «Oedipus Rex». The key text on responsibility of an individual will be staged in Kyiv by one of the best theater directors this autumn. «Oedipus Rex» was staged in Kyiv in 1918 by the leading avant-garde Ukrainian director Les Kurbas.

Ukraine was not the most important stage in Putin's plans. The landing in Hostomel and the parade on Khreschatyk were supposed to be just an episode of the epic picture about "Russia rising from its knees."

The Armed Forces of Ukraine will destroy enemy equipment, ammunition dumps, and command-and-control centers across occupied Crimea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address on Aug. 30.

Kirill Stremousov, who was “appointed” by Russia as the so-called “deputy head of Kherson regional administration,” has confirmed he’s currently in Russia, in a video statement published on Telegram messenger on Aug. 31.

The EU will suspend a simplified visa issuance agreement with Russia, stopping short of a wholesale visa ban for Russian citizens, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said, as reported by Reuters on Aug. 31.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission that aims to visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar arrived in Zaporizhzhia on Aug. 31, the Reuters news agency reported the same day.

Iran has provided Russian with a fleet of military UAVs, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing on Aug. 30.

Ukraine Today. Newsletter by Romeo Kokriatski, Managing Editor, New Voice of Ukraine Wednesday, August 31st, 2022.

Ukrainian border guards have destroyed a warehouse filled with weapons and ammunition belonging to the Russian Armed Forces in Donbas, as well as a group of invaders who were near it, the State Border Guard Service reported on Aug. 31.

The Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson Oblast has allegedly "failed with a bang,” while Ukrainians suffered heavy losses, Russia’s Defense Ministry lied in a statement on Aug. 29.

Last summer, the Russian president published an article “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” on the Kremlin’s official website.

The EU will send 5.5 million potassium iodine tablets to Ukraine, in order to counteract health risks from a potential radioactive leak at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the European Commission said in a statement on its website on Aug. 30.