Service, Sacrifice, and Uncertainty: Dispatches from Kyiv

Description

This project began with the intent to document life in Kyiv during a sustained period of
war not through the lens of breaking news or official reports, but through personal experience,
quiet observation, and day-to-day human encounters. As a U.S. military advisor temporarily
assigned to Ukraine, I occupied a complicated space: physically present in a war zone yet
shielded in many ways from its harshest realities. That divide – between privilege and proximity,
detachment and immersion – sits at the heart of this work. This is not a comprehensive analysis
of the war in Ukraine, nor a detached scholarly study. It is a human story – one that that attempts
to honor the lives unfolding in Kyiv while making sense of my own place within them.
 

Team

Members

Student:

Stuart Grimshaw

Supervisor:

Charlie D. Thompson