Tonight, the campus of American University Kyiv was damaged in another russian attack on Kyiv.

The university building and the surrounding area sustained damage. Thankfully, no students, faculty, or staff were injured.

For me, this is deeply personal.

I gave two years of my life to building American University Kyiv as its Founding Rector. We raised funds during a war. We recruited faculty and deans. We convinced students not to give up on their future, even as missiles fell on their country.

Because universities are more than buildings. They are places of ideas, of hope, of freedom – and of the belief that Ukraine has a future worth fighting for.

That is exactly why russia targets them.

This was not an attack on concrete and glass. It was an attack on education, on opportunity, on the future of Ukrainian youth.

But they will not break us.

American University Kyiv will keep teaching, building, and growing. Our students will keep learning. Our faculty will keep shaping the next generation of Ukrainian leaders.

Because terror cannot defeat a people who still believe in the future.

To everyone around the world standing with Ukraine – thank you.