Accidental Ukrainians is a description of living through the Russo-Ukrainian War by US citizens living in Kyiv as non-combatants from the Battle of Kyiv (February 2022) through the first year of the full-scale invasion (February 2023). Featuring personal accounts of events on the ground and other background on Ukraine.

Accidental Ukrainians enables you to witness the Russo-Ukrainian War from the viewpoint of US civilians on the ground, who went to Ukraine without a political or personal agenda. Many of the chapters were written as the events were taking place and thus capture the reality of war along with how people survive and deal with the various day-to-day challenges. This is the first book of a series that will cover those experiences through each year since February 2022.

• Cover
• Title
• Dedication
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Decisions, Decisions…
• 2 Family Comes First
• 3 My Beasties
• 4 The First Major Bump
• 5 My Beloved South Jersey
• 6 A New Home?
• 7 A New Home!
• 8 Family Reunion
• 9 He What?!
• 10 The First Time for Everything
• 11 So, Why on Earth Did We?
• 12 Dear Ukraine
• 13 February 22, 2022
• 14 Dear Kyiv
• 15 Dear World
• 16 Finding Home in a War
• 17 The Battle of Kyiv
• 18 Thirty-Two Days
• 19 Unsung Heroes
• 20 Holy Week and War
• 21 Easter at War
• 22 Ukraine’s Manifest Destiny
• 23 Right to Exist
• 24 A Kyivan, but Not a Ukrainian
• 25 Ukrainians Saved Our Lives
• 26 War Train Ukraine
• 27 Thanksgiving in Ukraine
• 28 Christmas in Chernivtsi
• 29 Entering the Second Year of War
• Epilogue