‘The world will remember this war not through reportage but through art’: the creatives on Ukraine’s frontline
Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflict
Yaryna Chornohuz is a poised, thoughtful young woman with a sweep of long hair, elegantly manicured nails, and a military uniform. In 2019, she joined a volunteer unit as a combat medic, and is now a soldier of the 140th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion. At 29, she is also fast becoming one of Ukraine’s most celebrated poets.
From the perspective of a country unthreatened by direct military aggression, it is hard to grasp the extent to which the 10-year-long Russian war against Ukraine, which so brutally escalated on 24 February 2022, has consumed the nation’s young – not just those conscripted through a recent tightening of mobilisation laws, but the many motivated to volunteer, like Chornohuz. It’s a cruel twist of history for this generation of Ukrainians that war has cast its shadow over their lives. Chornohuz tells me that she likes being a soldier, but also has ambitions to study for a PhD at some point. “I feel it would be also very natural for me to teach literature,” she says. “If Russia hadn’t attacked us I am not sure I would be in the military.”
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