In her talk, Olesya Khromeychuk will examine one of the most disturbing crimes of Russia’s war against Ukraine: the systematic abduction of Ukrainian children. Drawing on testimony, legal evidence, and historical parallels, she will explore how the Kremlin’s machinery of forced transfers, coerced adoption, Russification, and identity erasure operates, and why this crime continues largely unchecked.
Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She is the author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (Monoray, 2022) and “Undetermined” Ukrainians (Peter Lang, 2013). Khromeychuk has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Prospect, and The New Statesman, and has delivered a TED Talk titled What the World Can Learn from Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy. She has taught the history of Eastern and Central Europe at several British universities and is currently director of the Ukrainian Institute London. She has joined the IWM as the inaugural Senior Lesia Ukraїnka Fellow.
Taras Fedirko, Senior Research Fellow at the IWM, will moderate the discussion.
