Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, historian, author and leading voice on Russia’s war against Ukraine, is visiting Australia between 2-12 February 2023. Director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, Olesya has authored The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022), a moving story about the loss of the author’s brother fighting the Russian invasion in 2017. Olesya was born in … [Read more...]

Displaced Ukrainians and the local Ukrainian-Australian community featured in Australia Day events around Australia on 26 January 2023. In Sydney, 300 displaced Ukrainians and Australian-Ukrainian community members were special guests on the Catherine Hamlin ferry, which participated in the famous Australia Day Ferrython. Facilitated by the Ukrainian Council of … [Read more...]

The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations (AFUO) continues to call on Tennis Australia (TA) to ban Srdjan Djokovic from attending Rod Laver Arena for the Australian Open (AO) Men’s Final. Both Srdjan and Novak Djokovic have offered feeble and inadequate excuses for Srdjan standing with Z-clad men bearing a Russian flag emblazoned with Putin’s face. In the video of … [Read more...]

In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the AFUO stands with the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism. Eternal Memory (Vichnaya Pamyat) … [Read more...]

The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations (AFUO) is disappointed that  Tennis Australia has made no attempt to penalise Novak Djokovic’s father, Srdjan, who was filmed on Wednesday night posing with Z-clad men bearing a Russian flag and saying “Long live Russia”, nor to demand an apology from Novak Djokovic for the behavior of members of his entourage. Stefan … [Read more...]