Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Yushchenko is a Ukrainian politician who served as the third President of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010. Before entering politics he worked as a banker and headed the National Bank of Ukraine in the late 1990s, later serving briefly as prime minister. He rose to international prominence as the leader of the Orange Revolution in 2004, when mass protests forced a rerun of a disputed presidential runoff that he then won. His presidency was marked by a declared course toward European integration, recognition of the 1932–33 Holodomor as a genocide, and policies aimed at strengthening Ukrainian national identity and language.
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Lviv Regional Council Declares 2027 'Year of UPA, Shukhevych and Olzhych,' Sparking Polish Outcry
On 20 October the Lviv Oblast Council voted to designate 2027 as a year honouring the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), its commander Roman Shukhevych and poet Oleh Olzhych. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski sharply criticised the move, with Sikorski signing a motion to add the initiative's author, Sviatoslav Sheremeta, to Poland's list of undesirable persons. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry called the decision counterproductive and stressed it was a regional act taken without consulting central authorities.
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Ukraine's cabinet backs monument to Hetman Mazepa in central Kyiv on site of dismantled Lenin statue
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has endorsed a Ministry of Culture proposal to erect a monument to Hetman Ivan Mazepa on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in Kyiv, on the site of the Lenin monument toppled during the Euromaidan in 2013. The initiative was put forward by President Volodymyr Zelensky in June and is being implemented under a presidential decree.