“Let’s start with what’s most difficult—with singing and quenching the fires emerging from the night.
Let’s start by whispering the names,
let’s weave together the vocabulary of death.”
Let’s start by whispering the names,
let’s weave together the vocabulary of death.”
Over the course of a month, the war in Ukraine has inflicted thousands of casualties and untold destruction, displacing more than 10 million people and becoming the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
The gallery also includes an excerpt from a poem by Serhiy Zhadan (@serhiy_zhadan), Ukraine’s best-known novelist and poet, which appears below in English and Ukrainian.
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