Invasion: Book launch and conversation with Luke Harding
Date and time:
Monday 12 December, 2022
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
Luke Harding’s new book, Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival, is a gripping chronicle of the war that has changed everything. Reporting on the ground during the build up to the full-scale invasion, the initial months of shock and heartbreak and the grim reality of this ongoing war, Harding shares unheard human stories behind the headlines. The book also excavates the compelling narrative of two very different leaders. As Ukraine’s actor-turned-president Volodymyr Zelenskiy rallied support on a global stage, Vladimir Putin appeared to dwell in a strange and unreachable realm. Harding delves into the ideological, religious and personal reasons really driving Putin’s strategy for war, and confronts a crucial question: what will be the end game of this unprecedented invasion?
Luke Harding will be in conversation with Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, Director of the Ukrainian Institute London to discuss the key developments in the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945, and the ripple effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine that are being felt far beyond Ukraine’s borders. Copies of Invasion, signed by the author, will be on sale at the event.
Speaker
Luke Harding
Luke Harding is an award-winning foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has also covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Libya and Syria. Between 2007 and 2011 he was the Guardian's Moscow bureau chief. The Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war and in summer 2022 put him on an official blacklist. He is the author of Mafia State and co-author of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken (nominated for the Orwell Prize) and The Snowden Files. Two of Harding's books have been made into films; The Fifth Estate and Snowden.
Moderator
Olesya Khromeychuk
Olesya Khromeychuk is the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London. She is a historian and writer. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at several British universities, and has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Der Spiegel, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Prospect. Khromeychuk is the author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022) and “Undetermined" Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS "Galicia" Division (2013).
