Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio

Svitlana Kominko, co‑founder and CEO of Maple Hope Foundation, describes the Heal a Mother’s Heart campaign and the organization’s extensive bereavement support work for mothers and widows of Ukraine’s fallen. A major component of this campaign is Ukrainian-designed silk scarves, which help to raise funds for this critical work.She also discusses the program’s community‑building, its support for women experiencing loss, and the upcoming charity webinar featuring well-known American grief educator Joanne Steen.To support the important work of Maple Hope Foundation visit their website here.---------------------Originally broadcast on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio in Vancouver on May 2, 2026, and in Nanaimo on May 6, 2026.--------------------Subscribe to the podcast and share it with others to stay connected to new episodes. You can hear the full weekly broadcast on MixCloud, and please visit our online home nashholos.com.

From the Nash Holos Audio Archives and the Ukrainian Food Flair cookbook, this flashback features Sylvia Molnar’s clear, practical instructions for making nalysnyky — the delicious Ukrainian crepes enjoyed sweet or savoury. You’ll find this recipe, along with others from the series, in the Ukrainian Food Flair cookbook, available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

Dmytro Yatsiuk speaks about the experiences that shaped his three decades in Mozambique and the development of his long‑running Portuguese‑language work on Ukraine. This episode features a conversation about the path that brought him from Latvia and Ukraine to Mozambique, the early days of creating Ukrainian content in Portuguese, and how his work evolved through the 2004 Orange Revolution, the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, and the 2022 full‑scale invasion.He also discusses the information environment in Portuguese‑speaking Africa, the persistence of Russian disinformation, and why maintaining accurate Ukrainian narratives for international audiences remains essential.His blog, where he continues this work, can be found here.

In this vignette, Victor Sergeyev of Mikolayiv, Ukraine recalls a spring visit to Kyiv in April 1986, a trip meant only for routine work courses that unfolded into something far more ominous.He describes the city as it was before the truth emerged — the blossoms, the streets, the ordinary rhythms — and the first small signs that something was wrong in Chornobyl and Prypiat.His memories trace the shift from rumours to certainty: the sudden appearance of water hoses across the city, shelves stacked with red wine, round‑the‑clock public showers, frantic searches for dosimeters, and the quiet panic of people trying to leave Kyiv.Forty years later, the events he describes still stand as a record of that spring — and as a reminder that the Soviet regime collapsed under its own weight, while many wait for that history to repeat itself with the russian regime.

In this episode Myra Junyk reviews Serhy Yekelchyk’s Ukraine – What Everyone Needs to Know (2nd Edition), a comprehensive analysis of Ukraine’s development as an independent state and the challenges it has faced since 1991. The book updates Yekelchyk’s earlier work The Conflict in Ukraine and focuses on national identity, corruption, Russian aggression, and Ukraine’s international relationships.Myra outlines the book’s seven chapters, which address Ukraine’s strategic importance, its land and people, the post‑communist transition, the Orange Revolution and EuroMaidan, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas, the 2022 full‑scale invasion, and Ukraine’s role in global security. Yekelchyk highlights the failure of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum to protect Ukraine and examines how American policymakers came to understand Ukraine’s significance in countering Russian ambitions.The episode also notes the author’s treatment of controversial topics, including historical myths, Ukrainian nationalism, systemic corruption, and the early period of Zelensky’s presidency. Yekelchyk provides readers with tools for further study, including a chronology, map, notes on sources, and an extensive reading list.Ukraine – What Everyone Needs to Know is available at Chapters/Indigo and Amazon (affiliate link).

First aired on Dec 9, 2023, this historical perspective on WWI is unexpectedly timely.Gene Berezovski of Ukraine War Amps brings it forward into the 21st century with stark parallels to Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine. He outlines how Ukraine stood at the centre of the First World War, caught between collapsing empires, and how many of the same pressures, patterns, and imperial behaviours persist today.Gene describes the front line in 1914 running through what is now Western Ukraine, the suppression of Ukrainian language and culture under Russian rule, and the contrasting freedoms Ukrainians experienced under the Austro‑Hungarian Empire. He also highlights the unification of Ukrainian lands in 1918–1919 and how today’s invasion has again united Ukrainians across regions.The focus then turns from historical context to the day‑to‑day realities confronting wounded veterans, displaced families, and frontline communities. Gene shares updates on Ukraine War Amps programs supporting wounded veterans, families of the fallen, displaced children, and elderly survivors — including recent aid deliveries, winter supplies, and frontline assistance coordinated through volunteers in Ukraine.If you would like to support them in their work, send a donation to them via Paypal or with an e-transfer to their email ukrainewaramps@gmail.com, or their website ukrainewaramps.ca