How to Use Ukrainian in a Sentence
Ukrainian
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She’s also built a diverse staff, with employees who have Ukrainian, Indian and Turkish backgrounds.
— Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024 -
The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry has not replied to multiple messages seeking comment.
— Reuters, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024 -
At the end of the scene, the Russian and the Ukrainian take turns humping each other from behind.
— Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024 -
Pegula, who entered with a 2-0 record against the Ukrainian, built a 5-1 first set lead.
— Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024 -
As high-tech as this war is, Honza and the others with us can’t tell if its Ukrainian or Russian.
— Nic Robertson, CNN, 13 May 2023 -
Adding a romantic line in Ukrainian, Yara made a vow to her husband.
— Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023 -
Quotas in film, TV, and radio also increased the use of Ukrainian.
— Lydia Tomkiw, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023 -
War has turned a pristine, white-sand beach near the Ukrainian Black Sea resort town of Odesa into a crime scene.
— Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Many of the shells, according to Ukrainian and U.S. officials, have been old and performed poorly, with a high dud rate.
— David E. Sanger, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024 -
After 500 years, speeches and songs in Ukrainian once again refer to Bakhmut as a fortress—a place whose function is to stop the enemy and to protect.
— Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023 -
The very identity Ukrainian, in his opinion, should no longer exist.
— Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2023 -
The tablet menu has options for Ukrainian, English, and Russian—and staff say the majority of clientele speak the latter.
— TIME, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Pompeo also took a seat last fall on the board of Kyivstar, a leading Ukrainian telecoms company.
— Simon Shuster, TIME, 23 July 2024 -
Meanwhile, Bondar and her family, who still live in Ukraine, switched from speaking Russian to Ukrainian.
— Alex Haddon, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2024 -
His entire family joined the new Ukrainian Church right after Bartholomew recognized it, in 2018.
— Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024 -
At the same time the final roster in the men’s 100-meter was being decided on Sunday, Ukrainian Yaroloava Mahuchikh was wowing the crowd with her soaring high jumps.
— Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024 -
The book’s Spanish translation will be released this month, followed by Ukrainian and more than 10 other languages.
— Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024 -
This is especially vexing on the southern front in Zaporizhzhia province, where a Ukrainian break through the Russian lines would mark a definitive swing in the arc of the war.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 July 2023 -
Six miles south, on the southern Zaporizhzhia front, the Ukrainian Army has punched a hole in the formidable defenses Russia has built along the six-hundred-mile frontline.
— Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 13 Sep. 2023 -
As about eight Ukrainian journalists asked about five minutes of questions in Ukrainian, none concerned the invasion.
— Chuck Culpepper, Washington Post, 29 July 2024 -
The local governor of Russia's Belgorod region said that Ukrainian shelling on Sunday killed a man and a 16-year-old girl, and wounded at least 12 other people.
— Emma Burrows and Dasha Litvinova, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2024 -
In comments to the Ukrainian Pravda newspaper, Yusov said Russia had previously mounted false-flag attacks on the plant.
— Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024 -
Later that afternoon, an armored vehicle carrying some of the Ukrainian wounded roared up to the headquarters, loaded some equipment and raced out of the city.
— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Last week, a Ukrainian sea drone hit a Russian tanker near the bridge, while an attack on the bridge last month killed a couple and seriously wounded their daughter, leaving a span of the roadway hanging perilously.
— Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023 -
The missile tore through the main square just before noon, as people were leaving church after celebrating a holy day, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.
— Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023 -
The Kremlin has already largely dismissed the Ukrainian counteroffensive as a failure.
— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2023 -
There were doubts about the Ukrainian's future at the Bernabeu last season, amid poor performances whenever called upon to stand in for number one goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
— Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024 -
The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance said 107 people were killed in the uprising.
— Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023 -
To address the issue, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law in April requiring all men under 60 to register at draft offices or online, with the goal of streamlining the mobilization process.
— Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Aug. 2024 -
By March, a new Ukrainian drone-boat design—apparently funded by the Ukrainian bank Monobank—was spotted exhibiting a much smaller and sleeker design.
— Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
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