Roman discusses the ground truth in Ukraine, where he spent the first few weeks of the war. He answers questions like: Are the Russians as incompetent as Western media portrays them? Is their shelling of civilian targets deliberate or just incompetent? Find out as Sean Patrick Hazlett meets with his seventeenth guest, US veteran & former Ukrainian resident, Roman Skaskiw.

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Convoy Home
Saddam Hussein and the Dark Princes of Love

Biography

Roman Skaskiw was born and raised in Queens, New York.

His six years in the US Army included Ranger School, Jumpmaster School, tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq as an infantry officer with the 82nd Airborne division and another tour in Afghanistan with the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team.

His essays have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Stanford Magazine, the Des Moines Register, the Daily Beast, Mises.org, Small Wars Journal, and elsewhere. His fiction has appeared in Front Porch Journal, Bound off, Nethra, Steel City Review, In the Fray Magazine, and elsewhere.

He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Stanford University's School of Engineering. He spent a decade in Ukraine.

Sean Patrick Hazlett’s Books

Weird World War III
Weird World War IV
Hell’s Well
Alien Abattoir and Other Stories
Alien Abattoir and Other Stories (Audio)
The Post-Apocalyptic Tourist’s Guide to the Mojave Desert

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