In his recent blogs, Mitchell Institute Honorary Professor Brian Dooley provides insights and responses from local people in Kharkiv to recent developments in the Russia-Ukraine war.

 

Kharkiv Locals React With Fury to Trump Press Conference Attacks on Zelenskyy

In this blog, Professor Dooley provides commentary on the views and furious reaction of some local residents of Kharkiv on the Press Conference that took place in the Oval Office on 28 February 2025.

Read the blog here.

 

Locals in Ukraine React to Trump Suspension of Military Aid

The city of Kharkiv sits about 20 miles from the Russian border and remains under relentless attack from Russian missiles.  For people in Kharkiv, being bombed isn’t propaganda, and they depend on US weapons systems to defend them.  The news that all US military aid to Ukraine was to be suspended was met with horror in Kharkiv and across Ukraine.

In this blog, Professor Brian Dooley shares the views of Kharkiv locals as they absorbed this news and the implications.

Read the blog here.

 

Professor Brian Dooley

Brian Dooley is an Honorary Professor of Practice at the Mitchell Institute and a Senior Advisor at Human Rights First, a US-based NGO.  He specialises in working with Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in conflict and post-conflict contexts, and was senior advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on HRDs, Mary Lawlor, from 2020 to 2023.  His most recent work has been in the Hong Kong revolution and on Russia’s war on Ukraine.  He has also written two books related to the conflict in Northern Ireland, including a comparative study of the civil rights movements in the US and Northern Ireland.