Our Enemies Will Vanish – Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov

Please join us at 11:30 am for lunch. You will receive free copy of Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence with your registration.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the grueling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia, one of the world’s great military powers, in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath.

Join Jackie Miller, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council, along with Yaroslav Trofimov, author and Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, for a discussion on his latest book, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence."

Speakers Bio

Yaroslav Trofimov is the Chief Foreign-affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for two consecutive years, in 2022 and 2023. He has been working out of Ukraine since January 2022. Before covering the Russian war on Ukraine, Trofimov reported on most major conflicts of the past two decades, serving as the Journal’s Bureau Chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan and as a correspondent in Iraq. He joined the Journal in 1999 and previously served as Rome, Middle East and Singapore-based Asia correspondent Trofimov holds an MA from New York University and is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Faith at War and The Siege of Mecca.