Patent lawyer Olga Gurgula cannot really explain why she had a compulsion to visit her parents in Kyiv the week before Russia’s February 24 attack on Ukraine. All the Brunel University law school senior lecturer can remember is that she had become terrified that an invasion was imminent.
“I just had this terrible feeling that something [was] going to happen,” she recalls. “I was very concerned that if the invasion happened, no one would be able to help them.”
Gurgula assisted her parents in escaping to a relatively safer location. She then returned to England but has since been back and forth, focused on using her expertise as an intellectual property lawyer to help her country.
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