Ukraine

Community members gathered last night at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Riverhead for a solemn service marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

Riverhead’s Ukrainian Catholic church will mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion with Stations of the Cross and a memorial service.

Bring new or gently used clothes, medical supplies, toiletries, diapers, and dried food items to stuff these two vintage trucks at St....

The pastor of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church implored the community to be strong and stand up to evil, as the church marked the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church was founded in 1924 to provide a place of worship and community for Ukrainian immigrants. Its mission is as alive today as it was 100 years ago, with a new influx of Ukrainians seeking safety from war raging in their homeland.

The 16-year-old boxer came to the U.S. with his family seeking safety from the war in Ukraine. He struggled to find his place in a strange new land — until he stepped inside the ring at a Riverhead gym.

Pulaski Street School is hosting a “stuff-a-bus” donation drive to collect necessities for the people affected by the war in Ukraine.

As the battle to deter a Russian invasion from Ukraine continues across the Atlantic, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Riverhead is shipping roughly 300 pounds of donations a week from the local community to Ukraine, according to church pastor, Rev. Bohdan Hedz.

On Sunday, two people with deep ancestral roots in the same region of Ukraine — one the American-born daughter of a Jewish survivor of Nazi genocide, the other a Ukrainian immigrant and Catholic priest — came together in a Riverhead synagogue to share their perspectives on evil, persecution, senseless violence, survival and resilience.

The Suffolk Theater raised $35,000 for humanitarian relief in Ukraine at its ALL FOR UKRAINE benefit concert Sunday. All the money raised will go directly to three charities: Ukraine: UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders and the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee. All staff, performers and a host of local businesses donated their time, talent and services for the event.