The war has facilitated cooperation between two Ukrainian studies programs, which today exist thanks to the financial support of USF donors. The interests of both of these Ukrainian studies programs now often coincide. The Harriman Institute recently joined the initiative of the Vienna Institute for the Humanities to help scholars who do not have the opportunity to leave Ukraine to continue working in Ukrainian studies. HURI also joined this initiative. Already at the beginning of 2023, 35 scholarships were awarded to scholars in Ukraine lasting 5 months.

Russian aggression has led to the emergence of a number of decisions in American academic institutions. The administration of Columbia University took an objective stance regarding all events in Ukraine. Taking into account the humanitarian crisis and the threat faced by the creative stratum of Ukrainian society, three subdepartments of the university in April 2022 allocated 40 thousand dollars each to create one-year scholarships for Ukrainian refugee writers, journalists, and artists. The Ukrainian Studies Fund also supported this initiative financially. As a result, in May 2022, Columbia University announced the award of four scholarships for a one-year internship for Ukrainians at the university’s Paris branch. Such an internship in France’s capital is meant to open the doors to European cultural institutions for these scholarship recipients. In a broader sense, these are new opportunities for Ukraine. The internship has been taking place since September 2022.

At the 28th Publishers’ Forum in Lviv, on September 17, 2021, the publishing house of the Ukrainian Catholic University held a presentation of the first volume of the research project “Victims of the Ukrainian-Polish Confrontation of 1939-1947”. In addition to the authors Ihor Halahida of Poland and Myroslav Ivanyk of Canada, the presentation was attended by Archbishop Borys Gudziak, a stipend recipient of the Ukrainian Studies Fund and a Ph.D. graduate of the Ukrainian Studies Program at Harvard University. The main result of this study was a list of identified victims, confirmed by verified information, regarding the dead, in many sources and documents. Thus, the number of victims presented in the book differs from the general data, which until now have been quite uncritically used in Polish and Ukrainian historiography. In 2019, the USF began to organize various events in the community in support of new research on the history of the Polish-Ukrainian confrontation. The appearance of the project’s first volume titled “Ukrainian Victims of Kholmshchyna and Pidliashshia” is not only a fruitful result of eclectic research activity in the archival institutions of Canada, Poland, Ukraine and the USA, but also evidence of specific academic support and successful endeavors on the part of the USF.

The January/February 2020 issue of the influential journal “Foreign Affairs” featured an analytical article by Serhii Plokhy, the M. Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. The article, which was co-authored by Dr. Maria Sarotte, a researcher at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, focused on the Budapest Memorandum. December 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of this document. In their article, the authors underscored the fact that the Budapest Memorandum, unfortunately, was not a security guarantee, and noted that if Ukraine had received not simply “security assurances” but genuine security guarantees, then Russia would not have dared to violate the territorial integrity of Ukraine.