Moynihan Institute’s Event on Russia-Ukraine War Featured in CNY Central, Syracuse.com Articles

March 3, 2025

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The Moynihan Institute’s Center for European Studies hosted an event on Monday, Feb. 24, exactly three years after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Three Ukrainian experts, Maria Avdeeva, Eurasia fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor in the Moynihan Institute; and Mariana Semenyshyn, visiting Fulbright scholar in the Moynihan Institute, shared their views on the course of the war.

Semenyshyn still believes fast solutions will not work for Ukraine. She is preparing for a “marathon” of diplomatic fighting to find a peace plan taking into account what Ukrainians want and Russia’s intentions. The current solutions proposed won’t end the war because Russia started the war not to gain territories but to end Ukraine’s existence as a country, she says.

In Hranchak's eyes, the ongoing war forms part of a long history of unprovoked Russian aggression. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should not have come as a surprise to anyone, she says.

“Today, looking back, I gape at how anyone could have expected an empire for which aggression and genocide are a manifestation of its essence to behave different,” says Hranchak.

Read more at the following links:

CNY Central: “Syracuse University hosted an event to remember the start of the Russia-Ukraine War.”

Syracuse.com: “At Syracuse University event, Ukrainians reflect on three years of war.”