Ukrainian wartime poetry through the ages

For centuries, Russia has tried to erase Ukrainian culture by silencing its most powerful voices, but poets have long been using art to document their recurring struggles for survival.

Editor’s Note:

Ukraine has long faced the challenge of survival as a nation — when its poets were persecuted and killed, its literature was banned, and it was denied the right to exist as an independent country.

Ukraine is once again facing the same lessons of history. But now it is stronger, because the world knows about its struggle.

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