The new war that broke out in the heart of Europe and the bloody Russian advance on Ukrainian soil have made some names of regions and cities painfully familiar to us. Large and small towns that dot the invasion map echo in the news and make headlines in newspapers and sites. They are names like Kharkiv, Kherson, Mariupol. Cities that many had perhaps never even heard of, today largely destroyed and sadly known for this.
But if we want to try to understand more of what is happening in Ukraine, there are certainly three cities whose history can help us in this task: Kiev, Lviv e Odessa. Three crucial cities, in many ways different from each other, which we tell you in three podcasts, three focuses, entitled ‘Ukraine, the cities of history’.
To guide us are Silvia RoncheyByzantine, and Adriano Roccucci, full professor of History of Russia and Eurasia, both at the University of Roma Tre. With Ronchey and Roccucci we will enter the pages of history and the streets of the capital, Kiev, a city built along the axis of the Dnieper River and therefore in a strategic and central position. We will discover the past of Lviv, the most Central European of the three. And finally Odessa, overlooking the sea, with its famous staircase starring in the film “The battleship Potemkin”. To understand the story behind the story of this new war.
The map of New Russia according to Putin
by Lucio Caracciolo
