A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, journalists Luke Harding & Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Ukrainian human rights scholar Nadia Dobrianska, analyse the devastation of the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945.

Harding’s book, Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival, is the first book-length report from the front line, a moving and often shocking first draft of history from an award-winning journalist. As the ripple effects of the conflict are already being felt beyond Ukrainian borders, an unbiased understanding and close investigation of the situation is ever more vital. In a time of propaganda and misinformation, we turn to those who have been experts in the field for many years for their analysis.

Panelists will be in conversation with Director of the Toronto International Festival of Authors Roland Gulliver.

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Nadia Dobrianska is originally from Kyiv and has lived as a refugee in Ireland with her family since 2022. She served as Deputy Chief of Law of the political party Samopomich in the Parliament of Ukraine (2015-2016).

Luke Harding is a foreign correspondent for the Guardian, and was based in Russia from 2007 until being refused re-entry in 2011.

Donnacha Ó Beacháin is Professor of Politics at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University (DCU), where he lectures on post-Soviet politics.