Update on the Ukraine-Russia War in the Era of Trump 2.0 with James Brooke

OLLI at BCC Distinguished Speakers Series
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Russia Reels from Ukraine's Drones

An informative update and lively discussion on the Russia-Ukraine war with former New York Times foreign correspondent and former Ukraine reporter James Brooke.

Thursday, July 23 at 7 p.m. ET

Online via Zoom
Free & Open to all

In a lesson on asymmetric warfare for the modern world, diminutive Ukraine keeps hitting the punch-drunk Russian bear with drone raid after drone raid. As billion-dollar refineries go up in smoke, drivers in Eurasia's largest petrostate now wait hours in gasoline lines. Ukraine turns the Crimean peninsula into an island. All bridges are blown. All ferries are burned. As Moscow burns, Ukrainians lampoon Vladimir Putin as 'grandpa in the bunker.' Will Putin's personalist system survive? Or will a 'loyalist' take him out?

Veteran foreign correspondent James Brooke is back to give OLLI another in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine. Jim draws on a total of 14 years living and working in Kyiv and Moscow -- as bureau chief for Bloomberg and then Voice of America. Previously, he made numerous reporting trips to Russia with The New York Times.

This event will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel: OLLI: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College

See past updates from James Brooke on Ukraine in a YouTube playlist.

OLLI at BCC is also sponsored by Berkshire Health Systems