Why Do They Kill Our People?: Russia’s War Against Ukraine as Told by Ukrainians

This book is a collection of stories from witnesses and victims of Russian war atrocities that occurred in Ukraine during the full-scale Russian invasion that started in 2022. It contains first-hand stories of killings, illegal detentions, torture, and heavy bombardments of the civilian settlements carried out the Russian military during the invasion of Ukraine. It also contains stories of evacuation, losing loved ones, and the heroism of soldiers and paramedics. This book will give you the human dimension of the war, reflected in the stories of real people.

Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, journalist and writer. He is the President of PEN Ukraine and the current Analytics director at Internews Ukraine, one of the largest and oldest Ukrainian media NGOs. He is also the Editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project in English about Ukraine and an Associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He has been published in numerous outlets, such as The Economist, Le Monde, Financial Times, New York Times, and Newsweek.