Yury Kril

On March 25 two first Il-76 military transport aircraft with personnel and equipment of the 19th detached nuclear, chemical, and germ warfare defense battalion of the Western Operative Command left for Kuwait from the Sknyliv military airfield in Lviv. Two weeks earlier, a quartermaster corps...

The week before last, the mass media made public that all works on the construction of a memorial to the soldiers of the Ukrainian Halychyna Army and Polish military at the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv had allegedly been completed and that the memorial is ready for an unveiling ceremony. However,...

An unprecedented event took place last Monday at the Lviv opera. The Solomiya Krushelnytska Opera and Ballet Theater hosted the Ukraine-France Grand Royal Ball. The event, dedicated to the memory of Princess Anna Yaroslavna, was held to raise money for the Lviv oblast specialized children’s...

Perhaps not many people outside Western Ukraine know about Berezhany, a small picturesque city on the banks of the Zolota Lypa River in Ternopil oblast, unless somebody recalls the old song, “Cossacks Traveled from Berezhany to Kodry.” However, today they sing different songs, and Berezhany is well...

Volodymyr Toponar, the pilot of the Su-27 plane that crashed late in July this year during the air show at the Sknyliv Airfield in Lviv, will stay in the local prison’s isolation facility until December 9. According to Oleksandr Yaremenko, judge of Lviv garrison military tribunal, in case the...

For ten years now representatives of a number of the Lviv-based volunteer organizations, national associations, and religious confessions have been crusading for a memorial to honor the victims of the former Yaniv Concentration Camp, albeit without much success, as neither the powers that be nor...

Late the week before last Lychakiv Cemetery became the epicenter of Lviv social and political events. The first event to take place was reburial of Yevhen Petrushevych, president of the Western Ukraine Peoples Republic (ZUNR); Dmytro Vitovsky, Minister for War, and his adjutant and unit commander...

Owing to the participation of the Prime Minister of Poland Leszek Miller, the Second International Economic Forum on the Development of Cross-Border Cooperation, which took place in Lviv from October 3 to 5, became extremely important for Ukraine in the context of the current political and...

Deputies of the Lviv oblast council are trying to size up the scope of the Sknyliv tragedy and find who is to blame. But only on condition that this move of the local Our Ukraine fraction finds support among the assembly of oblast council deputies will this issue be taken up at the first regular...

A local art gallery hosted a display marking the 110th anniversary of the birth of Bruno Schultz, the great Jewish Polish artist and writer. He wrote in Polish and lived in Drohobych, Halychyna. Experts believe that this place formed his creative outlook. It was also in Drohobych that he died in...