Today's Message
Posted: Thursday, February 20, 2020'The War in Ukraine and Why Ukraine Matters to America': Today
Nolan Peterson, foreign correspondent for the Daily Signal, will present the lecture “The War in Ukraine and Why Ukraine Matters to America” today, February 20, at noon in Bulger Communication Center 217.
Peterson has reported extensively from the front lines in eastern Ukraine. In summer 2015, he was the first American journalist to embed with Ukraine's regular army as it faced Russian invaders and their proxies. A former U.S. Air Force special operations pilot and a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he is the author of the book Why Soldiers Miss War as well as two fiction collections. He lives in Kyiv, Ukraine, with his wife, Lilya. Peterson has lived in Ukraine full time since the war began in summer 2014.
His presentation is sponsored by the Political Science and the Economics and Finance departments.
Peterson will also speak at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center, 562 Genesee Street in Buffalo, on Friday, February 21, at 6:00 p.m.
