I’ve collected some readings on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and surrounding context. Additions would be very welcome. Contact me here.
- Where is Ukraine?, by Olesya Khromeychuk, Director of the Ukrainian Institute London (13 Jun 2022)
- Uncovering the scope of the Bucha massacre, by Igor Kossov, Kyiv Independent (22 April 2022)
- A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv, by Taras Bilous (25 Feb 2022)
- The War in Ukraine Seen on the Ground. Interview with Oksana Dutchak (7 March 2022)
- Self-determination and the war in Ukraine, by Taras Bilous (8 May 2022)
- Right to weapons. How can leftists support Ukraine? by Zakhar Popovych, Π‘ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π»ΡΠ½ΠΈΠΉ ΡΡΡ / Social Movement (20 May 2022)
- EuroMaidan Revolution [2014], Alisa Sobolieva, Kyiv Independent (2022) – useful explainer on “the single most consequential event in Ukraine’s modern history”
- From ‘not us’ to ‘why hide it?’: how Russia denied its [2014] Crimea invasion, then admitted it, by Carl Schreck, RFE/RL (26 Feb 2019) – follow the links to see clear evidence of Russian state lies
- The kaleidoscopic campaigning of Russiaβs special services, by Jack Watling, RUSI (20 Sept 2022)
- The myth of Russian separatists in the Donbas, by Paul Niland (21 Sept 2022)
- The shit-posting, Twitter-trolling, dog-deploying social media army taking on Putin one meme at a time, by Mark Scott, POLITICO (31 Aug 2022)
- Know your Western genocide apologist, NAFO meme (Sept 2022)
- Putinβs regime is banking on western Ukraine fatigue, by Olesya Khromeychuk (September 17, 2022)
- Welcome to The Machine: inside the secretive world of RT [Russia Today], by Matthew Bodner, Matthew Kupfer, and Bradley Jardine, Moscow Times (1 June 2017) – British lefties are particularly susceptible to this Kremlin propaganda outlet since it covers (or covered) protests in the UK that other media ignore