authorities on both sides say they are taking immediate steps to end the violence. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in vladimir putin s mind, ukraine is a fake state manipulated by the west. his effort to drag it back into the russian world began long before his all out invasion a year ago. back in 2014, he showed his contempt for kyiv sovereignty in crimea and the donbas. ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is 0lesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? 0lesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and
first tremors finally collapsed. the 6.4 magnitude quake struck close to the border with syria. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in vladimir putin s mind, ukraine is a fake state manipulated by the west. his effort to drag it back into the russian world began long before his all out invasion a year ago. back in 2014, he showed his contempt for kyiv sovereignty in crimea and the donbas. ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i
who leave their homeland. i suppose, i struggled for a while. i wanted to fit in like like all of us do, especially as a young person. and then i understood that living in between is fine. to have two homes is a privilege. so when i say, i go to ukraine, i say, i go home. when i come back to london, i say, i m coming back home. but did you, in a sense, think that there was a lack of, not only knowledge of, but, care about ukraine in the west? because this is, in a sense, getting to the point of your brothers fighting and your brother s death. were you sitting in london thinking, you know what, putin ordered the annexation of crimea, sent his forces into crimea in 2014. he sent forces into the donbas to work with the sort of puppet insurgents in the east of ukraine and the west, beyond some harsh words of condemnation, has done nothing about it. and did you feel that was because either they were ignorant or they just didn t care? it s a combination of reasons.
experience, being an immigrant and a woman, it has always been a struggle to have my voice heard. i guess you ve always had that conflicted feeling about being away from ukraine in the west. yes, it s inevitable for people who leave their homeland. i suppose, i struggled for a while. i wanted to fit in like like all of us do, especially as a young person. and then i understood that living in between is fine. to have two homes is a privilege. so when i say, i go to ukraine, i say, i go home. when i come back to london, i say, i m coming back home. but did you, in a sense, think that there was a lack of, not only knowledge of, but, care about ukraine in the west? because this is, in a sense, getting to the point of your brothers fighting and your brother s death. were you sitting in london thinking, you know what, putin ordered the annexation of crimea, sent his forces into crimea in 2014. he sent forces into the donbas to work with the sort of puppet insurgents in the east of