RUSSIA/UKRAINE CRISIS

Books

Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Make it Home by Benjamin Hall (2023)

The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller (2023)

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy (2023)

Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front by Serhii Zhadan (2023)

War and Punishment: Putin, Zelinsky and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of the Ukraine by Mikhail Zygar (2023)

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton (2020)

The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia and Political Warfare: 1945-2020 by Tim Weiner (2020)

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin’s Russia by Joshua Yaffa (2020)

Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story of the world’s greatest nuclear disaster by Adam Higginbotham (2019)

Putin’s World: Russia against the West and with the rest by Angela E. Stent (2019)

Chernobyl: History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy (2018)

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum (2017)

Putinism: Russia and its future with the West by Walter Laguer (2015)

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy (2015)

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (2010)

Hoopla (eBooks & Streaming)

Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know by Serhy Yekelchyk (2020)

Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War by Martin Kalb (2015)

Movies

Building Chernobyl’s Mega Tomb | Nova (2017 – DVD)

Vladimir Putin | A&E (2021 – Kanopy)

A Sniper’s War |Journeyman Pictures (2018 – Kanopy)

Understanding Russia: A Cultural History | The Great Courses (2018 – Kanopy)

On Putin’s Blacklist: Human Rights at Risk in Putin’s Russia | 1091 Media (2017 – Kanopy)

Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine | Synergetic Distribution (2016 – Kanopy)

Putin’s Way | PBS (2015 – Kanopy)

The Russian Woodpecker | Gunpowder & Sky (2015 – Kanopy)

Battle Zones: Ukraine and Syria | PBS (2014 – Kanopy)

Maidan: Uprising in Ukraine | Cinema Guild (2014 – Kanopy)

The Ukrainian Powder Keg | Upside Television (2014 – Kanopy)

Winter, Go Away! : Ten Filmmakers Chronicle Protests in Russia | 1091 Media (2012 – Kanopy)

Putin’s Kiss | Kino Lorber (2011 – Kanopy)

Oleg’s Choice: A Personal Look at the Conflict in Ukraine | Java Films (2016 – Kanopy)

The Babushkas of Chernobyl | Holly Morris (2015 – Kanopy)

Podcasts

State of Ukraine | daily podcast from NPR

Ukraine: The Latest | daily podcast from The Telegraph

Videos

Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Visual Timeline of the War | ABC News (2/22/23)

How the Russia-Ukraine conflict really started: Just the FAQs | USA Today (3/2/22)

A Brief History of Modern Ukraine | BBC (2/25/22)

What is Happening in Ukraine? Russia’s Invasion, Explained | Reuters (2/24/22)

Ukraine and Russia: What is Really Going on? | The Economist (2/16/22)

Articles

Ukraine Country Profile | BBC News (6/21/23)

Russia-Ukraine War | AP (updated daily)

Ukraine: Conflict at the Crossroads of Europe and Russia | Council on Foreign Relations (last updated 2/14/23)

Russia Invades Ukraine: A Timeline of the Crisis | US News & World Reports (updated 7/25/23)

Russia Invades Ukraine (graphics with regular updates) | Reuters

Fact Check Round Up: Narratives of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine | Logically (3/9/22)

10 things to know about Ukraine | The Hill (3/3/22)  

How to talk to your kids about Ukraine, according to psychologists | CNN (3/2/22) 

Understanding Ukraine | The Geopolitics (3/1/22)

Russia’s At War with Ukraine: Here’s How We Got Here | NPR (2/24/22)

Putin Lives in Historic Analogies and Metaphors  |  Spiegel International (3/17/22)