No one has the right to destroy a culture for whatever reason. No one wants to be deprived of the land they were born and raised in and call their homeland. In this book, my friend and colleague Dr Oksana Koshulko bears witness to one of the ugliest wars of the 21st century as a Ukrainian academic and citizen. I understand Dr Koshulko very well as an earthquake survivor from Antakya and a live witness to the sad stories of Syrian refugees. I cried when I read in the newspaper about the bombing of Lviv, a city I had visited and admired for a project many years ago. There are no winners in war and there never have been.... This book will be a source of reference for those who want to get to know the history of Ukraine closely, to witness Russia-Ukraine relations with the comments of experts, and to learn how Ukrainians and Crimean Tatar Turks experienced the most cruel face of the war, migration. Wishing for a world without war....
Dr. Tulay Atay
Hatay Mustafa Kemal University -- Tulay Atay This significant book gives a versatile and touching knowledge of the effects of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. Humanity and Ukraine: Resistance Through Language, Culture, and the Taking Up of Arms also sheds light on the future of Ukraine as a potential EU member state. -- Elli Heikkilä, Migration Institute of Finland, Research Director Emerita Dr Oksana Koshulko should be applauded for editing an essential volume for anyone looking to fathom the enormity of the consequences for Russias brutal assault on Ukraine. From chronicling the savage attacks on civilian populations, to the destruction of vital infrastructure, to the assault on cherished national treasures, to the day-to-day suffering of the ordinary Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, and other communities, to the predicament of refugees and the kind people who have offered help outside Ukraine, this book leaves no stone unturned. And it goes beyond superb analysis of the consequences for Ukraine and Ukrainian people fighting against the unprovoked Russian aggression. The war, as the contributors demonstrate, is already profoundly reshaping the political and security architecture of the European Union.
- Professor Tomila V. Lankina, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science -- Tomila V. Lankina
