Our Enemies Will Vanish – Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov

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."

Purchase a copy of the book here! You can also purchase a copy of the book at the event. Yaroslav Trofimov will be available to sign copies following the discussion

About Our Speaker

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.

About Our Moderator

Jacqueline Miller has led the World Affairs Council of Seattle since May 2014. She held senior positions in policy organizations and non-profits on the east coast before moving to the Pacific Northwest. In Seattle, she also serves on the Mayor’s International Affairs Advisory Board; is a member of the Civic Council for UW’s Master of Arts in Applied International Studies (MAAIS) program; and serves on the Washington State Advisory Committee for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. She is chair of the board of Global Ties U.S and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations. She is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining the World Affairs Council, Jacqueline served as Director of External Relations at Independent Diplomat in New York, working with marginalized democratic political actors to help them navigate the United Nations, the EU, and other international diplomatic fora. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at the EastWest Institute (EWI) in New York, where she created and led the U.S. program. At
EWI, she focused on national security policy, the U.S.-Russia and U.S.-China relationships, as well as nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation issues. She was deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington (DC) programs, where she oversaw CFR’s robust DC meetings program as well as outreach on Capitol Hill and the DC diplomatic community. She got her start in think tanks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she was deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia program.

She has also taught at The George Washington University, where she undertook graduate work after earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Cornell University.

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