Is Ukraine winning? – The Answer Wall

Ukraine’s summer counter-offensive didn’t go as well as hoped, and there has been a lot of hard fighting this winter, with Russia trying to advance in several places. Neither side is winning or losing right now. I’m following the Kyiv Independent, the NY Times, the Washington Post, and sometimes the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, all of which have good coverage. The first one is free and in English, the rest are available to everyone at BC either through the library or after setting up a separate account. Details here: https://libguides.bc.edu/newspapers

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.