Бахмут [Bakhmut] Myroslav Laiuk – Author Ukraїner — Publisher During the most intense fighting for Bakhmut in the winter and in March 2023, the author spent days and nights with Ukrainian infantrymen and artillerymen, medics and chaplains, rescuers and children who remained in the city and its surroundings, where artillery shelling and street battles were a constant. It’s a story about the anti-aircraft gunner who has just shot down a Russian fighter jet, father and sons fighting side by side, and a member of Wagner who cherishes Nabokov. It’s a journey to places where dogs feast on the dead, where you are petrified by fear and desolation, but also stunned by courage, resilience, and even love.
Our Enemies Will Vanish is a revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance, written by Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
2024 - Mikhail Zygar – Author Acceptance Speech, Peterson Literary Prize, short list
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Diane Francis interviews Yaroslav Trofimov and Mikhail Zygar on the prospects for an end of the war in Ukraine
DIANE FRANCIS Atlantic Council, Senior Fellow; The Kyiv Post, Contributor; The National Post, Editor-at-Large; Financial Post, Columnist; Substack News, Author
YAROSLAV TROFIMOV The Wall Street Journal, Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent Winner, 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for "Our Enemies Will Vanish" (Penguin Press)
MIKHAIL ZYGAR Exiled Russian journalist; TV Rain, Former Editor-in-Chief Finalist, 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for "War and Punishment" (Simon & Schuster) Video released on December 18, 2024