Brooks Newmark - Putin's Humanitarian Catastrophe - People Risking their Lives to Rescue Civilians

Putin unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe on Ukraine and Europe in  2022. He continues to terrorise the people of Ukraine and target  civilian infrastructure forcing a miserable existence on millions, and  extreme danger for those to the frontlines. The Russian targeting of  energy infrastructure is explicitly a war crime. Putin is enabled,  aided, and abetted by millions of Russians, whether that be actively or  passively. But when bad people take control of the agenda, as has so  often happened throughout history – good people also arise to show us a  better side of humanity.   

Brooks Newmark is a businessman, angel investor, philanthropist, former  politician, and social reform campaigner. He was a UK Member Parliament  and served as Minister for Civil Society. He is currently studying for a  DPhil at the University of Oxford’s Education Department focussing on  Education Reform in Rwanda. He is also a Visiting Academic at the Middle  East Centre at Oxford University, where he is writing a book on Bashar  Assad. But the reason we are talking today, is because of his  extraordinary work through ‘Angels for Ukraine’, an initiative he  co-founded to help move thousands of Ukrainian civilians away from the  front lines to safety in Western Ukraine.