Capitol Hill event honors fight for Ukrainian freedom

The sealing of a critical minerals deal and a Capitol Hill event honoring dissidents show that hope remains for Ukraine's cause.

Bernard-Henri Levy was impassioned. "Ukraine is not losing," he declared. "It is winning!"

Together with the Ukrainian poet and former Soviet dissident Lina Kostenko, Levy was receiving the annual Andrey Sheptytsky medal on Thursday evening on Capitol Hill. The event was hosted by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. The audience included the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter founder James Temerty, former American ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst, Razom senior adviser Melinda Haring, and the peripatetic journalist Vladislav Davidzon, whose most recent book is Ukrainian-Jewish Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation. Levy explained that he had just recently returned from the frontlines in Ukraine and remained confident of the prowess of its military forces.

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