Lawless came to Lviv to visit Bookforum.
“Lviv. One of the largest shelling. I sat in shelter with the author,“ go to where it’s scary. ”Well, he looked scared,” they wrote on the Threads network.
In the commentary “Suprilna. Culture” a writer, whose arrival in Ukraine was planned in July, told why he did not come then.
“I don’t quite understand what happened. The Ukrainian organizer of the event turned to me, and, of course, since it was from Ukraine, I was very happy about the opportunity to help, come and support. I don’t know what exactly went wrong on her part, but then I received a letter where the event was canceled,” said Lawless.
He emphasized that he did not make a decision not to come, but the media presented the situation just like that.
“The heart broke me not what they called me a coward, but long letters from people who wrote that they really liked my book, but now they could no longer love it. It broke my heart, because there was a connection between us – I did not know them, but it was a close relationship. And then they decided that I betrayed this connection, that I did not seem to be the most difficult. Perhaps this is one of the main reasons, why I have been here. He admitted.
According to the writer, Ukrainians are daily in new situations.
“I dedicated 25 years of life-all my professional life, except for a short period, when I was a lawyer, to help people do what they had never done before. And in your country, everyone is forced to do just that-to move quickly into an unknown one,” Loless said. “I understand that I do not survive what Ukrainians pass through. But if I can bring something from my experience so that it helps at least a little of mine, this is my duty”.
Lawless came to Ukraine at his own expense. In addition to Bookforum, he also visited Unbroken, and also plans to go to Kyiv.
Context
On the night of October 5, the Russian Federation released in Ukraine More than 50 missiles, including winged and “daggers”, as well as about 500 drones, said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. They were under the blow Lviv, Ivano-Frankivskaya, Zaporizhzhya, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkov, Kherson, Odessa and Kirovograd regions. Also attacked Vinnitsa region. There were five people in total, Four of which are in the Lviv region.
Monitoring public “PPO RADAR” He wrote that this night the Russian Federation made one of the most massive combined strikes on the territory of Ukraine and that rockets or drones flew in each region.
