In The Press

Chairman and co-founder of the nonprofit Nova Ukraine, Mikola Bilogorskiy, told Newsweek that the probe that led to Yermak’s resignation showed that “Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies are working as intended.”

A medical warehouse belonging to the US-based charity Nova Ukraine has been destroyed in Lviv as a result of a Russian missile and drone attack on 19 November.

Russian combined strikes on Lviv on Thursday night destroyed one of the warehouses with medical aid intended for hundreds of civilian medical facilities, which was collected and transferred to Ukraine by the American charity organization Nova Ukraine.

During this nationwide assault, one of Nova Ukraine’s medical warehouses in Lviv, Western Ukraine, was destroyed. No Nova Ukraine staff were harmed.

Igor Markov, a board member at Nova Ukraine, pointed to measurable results from coordinated diaspora advocacy. “Nova Ukraine’s volunteers have been involved in advancing every Ukraine aid bill passed by Congress since 2022,” he said. “Our coordination with other Ukrainian-American nonprofits helped secure passage of the National Security package in April 2024, including H.R. 8035 and H.R. 8038, which passed with strong bipartisan support—311-112 and 360-58 respectively—within a week of the Fourth Ukraine Action Summit.”

Erin E. McKee, CEO of Nova Ukraine, former U.S. Ambassador and USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia (2022–2025), explains the political and diplomatic turbulence and the challenges currently facing Ukraine: “I think the difference now is that, unfortunately, we have almost four years of war behind us. And now there needs to be a different tone, a different character to the stories we tell in order to keep America’s attention on the importance of supporting Ukraine.”