On Tuesday January 19, 2016, the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa hosted a presentation entitled The Battle of the Donetsk Airport by SERGEI LOIKO, War Correspondent, for the Los Angeles Times. The presentation was based on his Ukrainian-Language Book, Aeroport (2015) about the battle for the Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine.

Sergei Loiko was born in Finland and has been a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times since 1991. He has covered the wars in Chechnya, Tajikistan, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Afghanistan and Iraq. He reported from Ukraine from the beginning of Maidan in November 2013 to the Battle of Debaltseve (Donetsk) in February 2015. He is the only international reporter to have spent four full days at the height of the battle for the Donetsk airport in October 2014.

On the day following his presentation he travelled to Toronto, and from there kindly agreed to a telephone interview on Nash Holos. 

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