ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Ukrainian war veteran Oleh Tserkovnyi has inspired two fellow veterans to swim across the Bosphorus strait on their country’s Independence Day.

Ukraine is marking 34 years of independence, and the country’s first generation of lawmakers and activists are reflecting on how early decisions shaped its struggle today.

Crowds gathered with Ukrainian flags at the Joe Louis fist in downtown Detroit to support Ukraine Independence Day.

Ukrainian troops have liberated the villages of Zelenyi Hai, Mykhailivka, and Volodymyrivka, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi reported on Aug. 24.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, addressed Ukrainians on Independence Day, August 24. He noted that the best guarantor of independence is the army, according to Syrskyi.

Lesia Khomenko’s new painting at Kyiv’s main train station honours the people sustaining the country’s war effort – soldiers, medics, railway workers – and reclaims public art as a powerful tool of civic memory and resistance.

E stonia's Internal Security Service (ISS) said authorities had found a Ukrainian attack drone that exploded in a farmer's field on their territory. "It was a Ukrainian drone aimed at Russian targets,