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Why TPS for Ukraine Must Be Extended or Redesignated

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  Advocacy Why TPS for Ukraine Must Be Extended or Redesignated Facebook X (formerly Twitter) LinkedIn Copy to Clipboard Copied! Global Refuge Staff October 15, 2026 Four and a half years since the full-scale Russian invasion, the war in Ukraine remains the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises today. Every day, Ukrainian families face missile and drone attacks that strike homes, schools, hospitals, and energy facilities. Millions have been displaced inside the country or across Europe, and the humanitarian crisis continues to deepen with no end in sight. Here in the United States, more than 100,000 Ukrainians rely on Temporary Protected Status for a lawful status and basis for work authorization. Many Ukrainian TPS holders arrived in the war’s early days. Many fled with only what they could carry. Others escaped cities under bombardment or left loved ones behind in search of safety. Humanitarian protections like ...
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  Skip Navigation Mission & Impact Who We Are What We Do Get Involved Ways to Give The Latest Act Now Donate Open Main Navigation Start of main content. Advocacy Why TPS for Ukraine Must Be Extended or Redesignated Facebook X (formerly Twitter) LinkedIn Copy to Clipboard Copied! Global Refuge Staff October 15, 2026 Four and a half years since the full-scale Russian invasion, the war in Ukraine remains the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises today. Every day, Ukrainian families face missile and drone attacks that strike homes, schools, hospitals, and energy facilities. Millions have been displaced inside the country or across Europe, and the humanitarian crisis continues to deepen with no end in sight. Here in the United States, more than 100,000 Ukrainians rely on Temporary Protected Status for a lawful status and basis for work authorization. Many Ukrainian TPS holders arrived in the war’s early days. Many ...
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Zelensky has figured out why Trump loves Putin

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The Ukrainian president shares a compelling explanation after Washington abandons Kyiv — again. image from article Opinion [on Zelensky/Trump] By Max Boot Boot's  moto:  "Democracy Dies in Darkness" Boot is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Article date: October 19, 2026 at 7:15 a.m. EDT article contains numerous links  Donald Trump’s second-term relationship with Volodymyr Zelensky got off to a disastrous start. On Feb. 19, 2025, the U.S. president blasted the courageous Ukrainian leader as a “modestly successful comedian” and a “Dictator without Elections” who “has done a terrible job.” Nine days later, Trump berated Zelensky in the Oval Office for not ending the war that Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin had started. “You don’t have the cards,” Trump told him before temporarily suspending U.S. military aid to Ukraine. European leaders rushed to repair the breach. Zelensky signed a deal giving the United States a stake...
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Trump and Zelensky escalate feud as Ukraine war strains alliance

The increasingly personal dispute complicates President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker an end to the war. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky at the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Friday. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images) By Cleve R. Wootson Jr . and Sammy Westfall The Washington Post October 18, 2026 at 7:34 p.m.  President Donald Trump defended his decision to ease pressure on Russia and accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of prolonging the war Sunday, hurling blame across the Atlantic even as members of his own party criticized Trump’s approach to Moscow. In a lengthy social media post, Trump praised Russia for supplying diesel to global markets while claiming that Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries were harming American farmers and businesses. He also claimed that Zelensky “doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did.” The increasingly personal attacks threaten to further strain the U.S.-Ukraine alliance and complicate Trump’s efforts to broker a...
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Which is stronger, Russia or Ukraine?

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A Message from  Misha Firer  ·  Follow Lives in Moscow Few in the West understand the depth and scope of familial, cultural, religious interconnection between Ukrainians and Russians. My wife’s grandmother is Ukrainian, and my daughter is a bit Ukrainian too. My maternal uncle’s wife is Ukrainian, three of my cousins are half Ukrainians. My cousin’s wife is from Dnipro. Many of my classmates were Ukrainians. My boss’s nephew’s wife is from Kyiv. And it is very similar to many millions of Russians. Population of Ukraine is around 40 million. Russia has 144 million. Thus the network of interrelationships is huge, enormous. Putin suggests severing them and declaring family members, friends and colleagues brain dead zombies controlled by neo-Nazis. Ruled by a Jewish president. World War Z. Russian army marks tanks and hardware with Z letters that does not exist in the Cyrillic alphabet advancing to liberate Ukrainian zombies from neo-Nazis. Putin’s propagandists have watched ...
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