Ukraine

Less than two weeks ago, Dmytro Pidruchnyi was competing at the Winter Olympics in Ukraine’s national colors. Now he’s wearing a military uniform and ballistic helmet.

In the dust, debris and the dead lying in Kharkiv’s central Freedom Square, Ukrainians on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, saw what might become of other cities if Russia’s invasion isn’t countered in time.

Oleksiy Sorokin was studying political science and history in Toronto when his Ukrainian homeland was last on the world stage back in 2014. The 26-year-old now finds himself reporting from Kyiv as Russian forces attack the capital and the country.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raises questions about global energy security, Canada’s environment minister is blasting Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s assertion Canada must “get some pipelines built” to help “defang” Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Canadian banks, insurance companies and asset managers have pumped millions into Russian-owned oil and gas companies that have flowed into the petrostate’s war chest.

Russians around the world have taken to the streets daily to denounce their homeland's invasion of Ukraine and some, like Koshkareva at a rally on the weekend, have burned their documentation.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to the Poland-Ukraine border on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, to ensure that Canada's latest supply of military aid flows into the war-ravaged country.

The Canadian government prioritized existing immigration applications from Ukraine since thousands of people began to flee Russian aggression in the region.

For two decades, Vladimir Putin has struck rivals as reckless, impulsive. But his behavior in ordering an invasion of Ukraine — and now putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert — has some in the West questioning whether the Russian president has become dangerously unstable.

Russian shelling pounded the central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city and other civilian targets Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital — as Ukraine’s embattled president accused Moscow of resorting to terror tactics to press Europe’s largest ground war in generations.

The oil and gas industry Alberta Premier Jason Kenney holds up as ethical has some very unethical Russian money in it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Three weeks ago, the leaders of China and Russia declared that the friendship between their countries “has no limits” as they met in Beijing on the eve of the Winter Olympics. But that was before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a gambit that is testing just how far China is willing to go.

Even though Andrea Willows' grandparents fled Ukraine in the years leading up to the Second World War, she still maintains contact with family in the country and worries about their safety.

Ottawa promised millions of dollars in additional military aid to Ukraine and closed Canada’s airspace to Russian aircraft on Sunday, February 27, 2022, as the drumbeat of nuclear war grew louder.

Russian President Vladimir Putin put his nuclear forces on increased alert on Sunday in a major escalation of tensions with the West. Russia’s conventional military assault on Ukraine entered its fourth day with fighting in the streets of the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, and troops moving closer to the capital.