02900cam a2200469 i 4500 1645956495 TxAuBib 20241007120000.0 230630s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023026542 9780593655184 hardcover 0593655184 hardcover 40032135770 (OCoLC)1388497211 TxAuBib rda Trofimov, Yaroslav. Our enemies will vanish : the Russian invasion and Ukraine's war of independence / Yaroslav Trofimov. Russian invasion and Ukraine's war of independence. New York : Penguin Press, 2024. ©2024. 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Brief portions of this work originally appeared in news articles written by the author and published in The Wall Street Journal during 2022 and 2023"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-370) and index. "Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, offers an eyewitness account of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine"-- Provided by publisher. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments--from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the grueling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut--to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia, one of the world's great military powers, in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer and annex Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, redrawing the map of Europe in a few short weeks with seismic geopolitical consequences. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of the epic bravery of the Ukrainian people--people Trofimov knows very well. 20241007. Trofimov, Yaroslav. Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022. Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022. Personal narratives. War. Death. Wars. Russo-Ukrainian issue. eurovocen Ukraine History Autonomy and independence movements. Ukraine. Russia. Russie. eclas Personal narratives.