The former prime minister says Ukraine s war against Russia is underpinned by its identification with western values, and is being powered by a renewed sense of unity
Amelina, who dug up Vakulenko's notes he had hidden from the Russians in his yard and initiated the diary's publication, was also killed by Russia’s war. Vakulenko and Amelina are among dozens of Ukrainian cultural figures killed by Russian aggression. There is no official record of such losses, but two lists compiled by PEN Ukraine suggest that the full-scale invasion has claimed the lives of at least 65 Ukrainian cultural figures.
Russians are advancing in the Northeast, toward Kupiansk, while Ukraine presses its offensive in the South, each hoping to force the other to redeploy its forces.
When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country of his birth