This book sketches the global stakes: whether borders can be redrawn by force and whether the post-WWII order endures, while warning that a coerced “peace” would only reward aggression.

Built around interviews and first-person forewords, the volume humanizes the conflict and widens its lens.

Oleksandra Romantsova details political-prisoner exchanges, systematic abuses under occupation, and how promised F-16s mark a new phase in air defence. War correspondent Alex Craiu narrates the hazards of frontline journalism, from OPSEC to disinformation. Legal scholar Kateryna Kyrychenko maps war crimes across domains—deportations, sexual violence, cultural looting, cyberattacks—and outlines the push to secure accountability.

The forewords frame the war’s moral and strategic terrain.

One argues the invasion was foreseeable absent credible deterrence and urges integrated responses. Another warns that, three years on, the war risks fading into background noise even as its consequences intensify, making documentation and sustained attention essential. The book positions its interviews as a corrective, keeping focus on lived realities at and behind the front.

Across chapters, civilian resilience is a through-line: teachers in shelters, nurses in improvised hospitals, families rebuilding. The text calls readers to witness and to act—advocating justice, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction—while insisting that the security of small nations must be a global priority.

In sum, the book is a mosaic of testimony, legal analysis, and field reporting that doubles as a strategic and ethical brief: sustain Ukraine, counter hybrid aggression, and defend the norms that protect free societies.