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Iuliia Mendel is a Ukrainian journalist who served as press secretary and spokesperson for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, from 2019 until 2021. Her book is "The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World."
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Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus has returned to the US after being deployed since mid-March with the Navy in Europe. Neuhaus, who is a Lieutenant Commander with the Navy Reserves, served with the Sixth Fleet in response to the war in Ukraine.
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New York Congressman Paul Tonko welcomed a group of officials from a former Soviet state to his Albany office Monday.
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City leaders in Ukraine recently held a Zoom call with municipal leaders in cities across the world to discuss the Russian invasion and to implore local leaders to support the resistance in any way they can. The mayor of Saratoga Springs was one of the participants.
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Alleged atrocities carried out by Russian forces in Ukraine have led to investigations of possible war crimes and global outrage. Moscow has claimed the accounts are false or staged. Among those following the developments is Dmitry Burshteyn, associate professor of psychology at Siena College in Loudonville, New York, who was born and raised in what is now Ukraine, leaving when he was 19.
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A new Siena College Research Institute poll released Thursday finds 70% of New Yorkers say inflation is either having a “very” or “somewhat” serious negative impact on their finances.
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The Vermont State Police are sending nearly a thousand pieces of body armor collected over two weeks to Ukraine.
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This week three Ukrainian students attending Middlebury College talked about the invasion and their families remaining in the war zone.
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The city of Cohoes and its Ukrainian community held a prayer vigil Monday night.
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I’d heard of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, most of my life, though I hadn’t been able to place it on a map, or frankly even been interested enough to try, until Russia invaded the country a couple of weeks ago. Was it where my grandfather grew up? Or was that Proskurov? Adding to the confusion, between wars and revolutions the names and national identities have changed over the years from Russian to Ukrainian.