Discussion club: Suggested references

Meeting #1: Why Germany needs Ukraine's victory?

• "Why the world needs Ukrainian victory: Fifteen reasons" by Timothy Snyder, January 2023 (plus comments)

• "Why the Ukrainian victory is important for the world?" by Timothy Snyder, an address at the Kyiv Security Forum, May 2022 

•  "What would victory actually mean now for Ukraine - and for Europe" by Orysia Lutsevych, The Guardian, May 2022

• "Ukraine must win" by Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, March 2022

• A list of popular videos by UNITED24, episodes 1, 2, 4 and 8

Meeting #2: Crimean Tatars: 1944

• Film "Haytarma" by Akhtem Seitablaiev, 2013, the first historical drama film about the 1944 compete deportation of Crimean Tatars forced by the Soviet Union, during which almost half of the people died and the rest were not allowed to return home for almost 50 years

• Award-winning documentary "A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars" by Christina Paschyn, 2015

• Jamala's song "1944", which won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, and her new album "Qirim", dedicated to Crimean Tatars

• Introductory course "Crimea: History and People" by the Ukrainian Institute (12 video lectures)

• "We are Crimea" series by Ukraїner and the Ukrainian Institute, in which famous Crimeans share their thoughts and memories of the native peninsula

• International project "Crimea 5am" dedicated to persecution and repression of indigenous Crimean Tatars in the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula

Meeting #3: Ecology and War

• Two best resources to stay updated: Ecoaction and Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group

• "The environmental impact of the conflict in Ukraine: A preliminary review" by UN Environment Programme, October 2022

• "Climate damage caused by Russia's war in Ukraine: 24 February 2022 - 23 February 2023" by Initiative on greenhouse gas accounting of war, Center of Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction, June 2023

• "500 days of war: Experts discuss the war's environmental impacts" by Viktoria Hubareva (Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group), July 2023