Svyrydenko is Ukraine’s first female economy minister and a symbol of the rise of women in the labour force because of the war. Before, women were mostly employed in education and health care ...

Even Ukrainian holidays are forbidden." This is the sorrow and fear of a rarely heard voice from within Ukraine - that of someone living in one of the Russian-occupied areas of the country.

Ukrainians in Lisbon have been invited to attend the Easter hayivky, a colorful event that is an important element of Ukraine ...

Now, photographer Alena Grom, a Donetsk native who, with her family, was forced to flee her hometown during Russia’s 2014 invasion in the east of Ukraine, has submitted her portraits of 15 women ...

DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Kateryna Koliadiuk was curious. The 19-year-old Ukrainian agronomy student spotted an ad seeking women to enroll in a tractor driving course and decided to try.

Oksana Polischuk, 51, descendes by lift into a coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 30, 2025. Polischuk, lost her husband on a war, she became an IDP in Poland. She decided to return ...

developed a culture that was distinct from the rest of the country, which was ruled by Imperial Russia from the 18th century until the early 20th century. Yet many people I met in Ukraine cite a ...