Ukrainian academic who helped rebuild her university to deliver public lecture in UCC

Dr Samosonok was one of three administrators tasked with moving her university to territory under the control of the Ukrainian government after the war began in the Donbas region

Buildings are seen on December 1, 2014, through the window of a flat that was shelled during the night in the Telstilshik district of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. Picture: Eric Feferberg/AFP via Getty Images

A Ukrainian academic who helped rebuild her university at the beginning of the crisis with Russia in 2014 is to give a public lecture in University College Cork (UCC) next week.

Dr Larysa Samosonok and her daughter Victoria, 19, are sheltering in Cork after an arduous journey to the Polish border following the Russian invasion of their country.