Why the West underestimated Ukraine
People deny me credibility because I am female, young, east European. They have treated my country the same way.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at several British universities, and written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Der Spiegel, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Prospect. Khromeychuk is the author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022) and “Undetermined" Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS "Galicia" Division (2013). She is currently the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London.
People deny me credibility because I am female, young, east European. They have treated my country the same way.
By Olesya Khromeychuk