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We held an urgent discussion on European defence with Keir Giles and Edward Lucas. The recording is now up on the Ukrainian Institute London's YouTube channel, and I strongly encourage you to watch it. Keir and Ed’s candid insights may not make for easy weekend viewing, but 1/3

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Over the last few days, russia killed a young Ukrainian artist & a talented musician. Just the latest in a long, bloody story. We discussed russia's attacks on Ukrainian culture on The Ukraine Shelf with Dr Sasha Dovzhyk & Eugene Finkel. Listen here: ucl.ac.uk/european-insti…

I’ll be speaking at Yale University on 23 April and at Harvard University on 24 April. If you’re in the area, it’d be lovely to see you in person. If not, the Harvard talk will be live-streamed. Details below.

Don't miss this sale! This means you can get, for example, Nina Murray's brilliant translation of Lesia Ukrainka's groundbreaking (and, today, very prescient) modernist play Cassandra for around £10...!

Thrilled to be moderating this fabulous discussion panel on Odesa past and present on 6 May in London. I'll be joined by writer Julian Evans, historian Oksana Dovgopolova, and film experts/curators Olga Sydorushkina and Ivan Kozlenko. Co-organised by Ukrainian Institute London and UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies.

Russia’s response to the Rubio-Lavrov call and the Paris meeting is to lob more cluster-munitions missiles into residential neighborhoods of Ukraine’s second-largest city.

Добра ніч, dear friends. We close this day with "Poem About a Crow" by Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦, trans. by Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦: theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…. Eternal Memory, Victoria. Your poetry is always with us.

These have been really good, nice interviews with authors. Just listened to the third one on the way home, and have another two books I want to read.

Looking for something to listen to this long weekend? Tune into the latest Ukraine Shelf episode—this time on Eastern Ukraine, a region still too often misunderstood. Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦 and I speak with brilliant authors Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan. 🎧 Link below.

Highly recommended, Ukraine Shelf is a welcome new podcast focusing on books - the best treats for a good soul (after Zhyvchyk).

🎧 The Ukraine Shelf Podcast Ep. 3 is out now! Explore Eastern Ukraine with Olesya Khromeychuk, Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦, Olena Stiazhkina & Victoria Donovan from Donetsk & Luhansk to empire, identity & resistance. 🎙️ Listen now: youtu.be/NjoJ40hapDc

I'm honoured to be joining Tetiana Teren and Emma Graham-Harrison to discuss Victoria Amelina's beautiful book Looking at Women Looking at War tonight for Hay Festival Book Club. Join for free here hayfestival.com/p-23201-hay-fe…

Having lost any adequate expertise on Russia, Washington seems to be completely devoid of understanding of Ukrainian realities. Occupied Crimea is not Alsace and Lorraine, which we can talk about later. It is basements, torture, electric shock, rape with rubber truncheons. Like

A sleepless and terrible night in #Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities after Russia carried out a massive drone and missile attack. Nine people killed, more than 70 injured, buildings hit and on fire, two kids buried under the rubble and now searched for ... theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

It was an honour to discuss Victoria Amelina's piercing, moving book about Ukrainian resistance to the invasion for Hay Festival with Tetiana Teren, who was part of the amazing team who brought this book to publication. It was a great conversation. youtube.com/watch?v=4q5L6B…

Tomorrow, I’ll be at the Imperial War Museums, speaking alongside some brilliant minds on the subject of war trauma and healing. Full details below.