Ukraine: One year on

A message from Stuart Croft, Vice-Chancellor

It's a year since the brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine and across our television screens at that time, we've seen death and destruction. For myself, I've been on Teams calls with rectors in Ukraine when the air siren has gone off and you can hear explosions in the background.

I've met, along with other leaders of our Eutopia partners, Ukrainian refugees in Kalush and heard their stories first hand. And here at home in our community, we have done so much - thank you - to support Ukrainians. We have Ukrainian students on the Sanctuary Scholarships. We have 10 Ukrainian academics on fellowships working here.

Many of you have been given donations. Some of you have opened up your homes for Ukrainians to live as well. And it's been so important for us to be clear on where we stand that in a war in Europe in 2023 there is no middle ground.

There's a Warwick Ukrainian society, which has grown up and done so much to tell us the really positive things about Ukraine, Ukrainian society and Ukrainians and it's been wonderful to meet and to engage with them as well.

And of course, we all know that in our community we have Russian citizens. And I know that those Russian citizens are not supporters of the war. This is not a negative view about Russians. This is about the criminal act of the Russian government.

We know, we have seen, that this is going to be a war that will go on. We know, we have seen, that the rebuilding will take a long time.

And we here, at the University of Warwick, we're in it for the long haul.

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