The War Museum invites you to the presentation of a two-volume publication containing 63 oral history interviews with eyewitnesses to the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion: residents of 42 settlements in the Brovary, Bucha and Vyshhorod districts of Kyiv region.
📖 These are 63 voices recounting the war from within. They tell of the first hours of the invasion and life under occupation, shelling and blockade, hostilities and evacuation, resistance and territorial defence, volunteering and mutual assistance, hopes of liberation and returning to their communities. At the heart of the publication are people and their personal stories, which together form a mosaic of experiences from Kyiv region during the first months of the full-scale war.
🗣️ During the presentation, the compilers will discuss the particularities of fieldwork during wartime, the study of memories of traumatic experiences, and what remains beyond the final interview transcripts. They will explain why oral testimonies are an important historical source today.
👥 Speakers:
• Svitlana Makhovska – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Ethnology Department at the State Scientific Center for Protection of Cultural Heritage against Technological Disasters; Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Olena Boriak – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Senior Research Fellow at the State Scientific Center for Protection of Cultural Heritage against Technological Disasters
• Oleksandr Vasianovych – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Deputy Director for Research at the State Scientific Center for Protection of Cultural Heritage against Technological Disasters
• Mykola Hrinchuk – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Internal Audit Unit at the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management
🎤 Moderator:
Svitlana Datsenko – historian, Head of the Educational Outreach Department at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
🏛️ Event organisers:
The War Museum, the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the NGO «The Chernihiv Research Centre for the Anthropology of War», the State Scientific Center for Protection of Cultural Heritage against Technological Disasters
✅ Attendance at the presentation requires advance registration.
🔗 Register using the following link.
⚠️ For security reasons, the exact address of the event will not be published. Details of the venue will be provided separately to registered participants.
🙏 Come and hear the history of Kyiv region during the full-scale invasion, told through the voices of those who witnessed it.
📅 21 November 2026
🕐 14:00
📍 Kyiv
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