Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on April 7, 2025 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a book talk by Argemino Barro. Moderated by Yuri Shevchuk.
Facing the shores of the bright Sea of Azov and flanked by two massive metallurgical complexes to the north and south, the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was thriving before it was attacked by the Russian army on February 24, 2022. With no evacuation or defense plan in place, many civilians believed the crisis would be resolved within days. By the time the true scale of the assault became clear, Mariupol had already been encircled. Based on over twenty original testimonies gathered in Ukraine, “Mariúpol, última batalla” weaves together the experiences of survivors and fighters caught between a revanchist geopolitical power and a small Ukrainian garrison, including ultranationalist forces, determined to defend the city at all costs.
Argemino Barro is the U. S. correspondent of the Spanish media outlets El Confidencial, La Sexta and Televisión de Galicia. Before moving to New York City, Barro focused on post-communist Europe. His reporting on Aleksandr Lukashenko’s dictatorship awarded him the Belarus in Focus journalism award in 2013 and marked the beginning of his long-standing engagement with the region. In 2014 he covered the Donbas War and has returned to Ukraine in recent years to report on the Russian full-scale invasion. He was also a Visiting Scholar at The Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Barro is the author of two other books: “El candidato y la furia” (2017), about the rise of Donald Trump, and “Una historia de Rus” (2020), which examines the Ukraine-Russia war through historical and on-the-ground reporting.
