Fifteen Ukrainian youth embraced Islam, highlighting the spread of the faith in the former Soviet republic, with the efforts of the Islamic bodies in the country achieving tangible results.

Leaving for a journey under the principles and concern of the poor and the needy, The Federation of the Social Organizations ARRAID stood up for humanitarian aid hence visiting one of the orphanages in Hay Stronogovka in the city of Simferopol, Ukraine. The Orphanage cares for almost 130 orphans aged between 2-6 years who are all U Ukrainians and non-Muslims.

The Muslims praying in The Kiev Islamic Centre always count that a week or a maximum of two weeks don’t pass without at least one Ukrainian adopting Islam in front of them, be it a man or a woman.

In the first religious event of its kind in the former Soviet republic, a Ukrainian Muslim student memorized the Noble Qur’an, the first case after long decades of persecution against the Muslim minority in the country under the Communist rule.

On the Crimea peninsular in the Black Sea live about 300' 000 Crimean Tatars. They count as natives of the strategically important Crimea, are sunnit Muslim and speak their own language which is related to the Turkish. Their number counts not even one percent of the Ukrainian population, nevertheless, increased during the last years continuously, trend increasingly.

On 11 February 2003, Muslims in Ukraine and all over the world marked the feast of Kurban-Bairam. On this occasion, a festive prayer service was held in the mosque of the Islamic Cultural Center in Kyiv.