Figure of the week 

• 80 years since the forced deportation/genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. 

Ukraine - Türkiye 

• Head of Ukrainian Parliament Stefanchuck visited Türkiye and met with the President R.T.Erdogan, Foreign Minister H.Fidan, the Speaker of the GNA N.Kurtulmus, and the representatives of the Crimean Tatar community of Türkiye. 

• Ukrainian Minister of Defense Umerov pays a working visit to Ankara. 

• Ukrainian representative was elected to the position of Deputy Secretary General of the PABSEC.

 Foreign Policy

• President Zelenskyy met with U.S. Secretary of State A.Blinken in Kyiv. 

• First Lady of Ukraine Zelenska met with President A.Vučić and First Lady T.Vučić during her visit to Serbia. 

• Ukraine and Argentina deepen cooperation in defence, energy and infrastructure. 

• Official Report ‘Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Future: Paving the path to peace & security’ by Rasmussen-Yermak International Task Force. 

• How to strengthen the economic pressure on the Russia: New Action Plan. 

• Declaration of the 2nd International Summit of Cities and Regions. 

• Denmark announces new military aid package to Ukraine worth €750 million. 

• New Zealand imposed sanctions on 28 individuals and 14 entities providing military support to Russia in the war against Ukraine.

Home and Frontline

• Total Russian combat losses since February 24, 2022 – to May 17, 2024, are: personnel – 489 870, tanks – 7 547, ACV – 14 552, artillery system – 12 603. 

• Russians trying to launch offensive in Kharkiv region on rear of Ukrainian forces – CinC Syrskyi. 

• MFA commemorated victims of genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. 

• Ukraine receives over 600 tonnes of aid in the form of energy equipment after renewed russian attacks on the energy sector. 

• Ukraine launched the new state online platform "Ukraine for Every Child". 

• On May 16th,Ukrainians and our friends around the world celebrate International Vyshyvanka Day. 

• Ukraine takes third place at Eurovision 2024. 

Learn more about Ukraine 

• Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. 

80 years ago, on May 18, 1944, the Kremlin organized mass the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. Over 200,000 Crimean Tatars were forcibly removed from their homeland in Crimea and relocated to Central Asia. According to various estimates, between 20 and 46% of all deportees died of starvation, exhaustion, and diseases in the first three years after resettlement. Almost half of those who died in the first year were children under 16. In 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944 as genocide.
Ukraine Weekly, 17.05.2024.pdf