About Journalism and Journalists During the War

The book author comes from the village of Avdiivka in Chernihiv region. Professional journalist, publicist, and public figure. Graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. For more than 25 years, he headed the regional association “Prosvita” named after T. Shevchenko, the co-founder of the newspaper “Sivershchyna”, which was closed by the authorities during the time of President Yanukovych, and the publishing house of the same name. “One Hundred Days of the Great War” is the fourth book of the active journalist. This is a kind of chronicle of the first months, as the author aptly puts it, of the “Great War” – a fullscale Russian invasion of Ukraine. All those days – during the occupation and liberation of the region – the author was in his native land. The basis of the story is diary entries about the beginning of the invasion, the first losses and victories, withdrawal from the front, stories of witnesses and resistance fighters, observations about life in the besieged city, and finally, the expulsion of the occupiers from Chernihiv region and its gradual restoration. Reflections on the rank and vocation of journalism and journalists in a turning point for the people run through the book as a red thread