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The rape of Ukraine continues while the world’s sympathies move on

Two detailed, on-the-ground accounts from Andrey Kurkov and Oleksandr Mykhed remind us of the atrocities that are changing life in Ukraine forever

20 July 2024

9:00 AM

20 July 2024

9:00 AM

Our Daily War Andrey Kurkov

Open Borders Press, pp.340, 20

The Language of War Oleksandr Mykhed, translated by Maryna Gibson, Hamma Leliv and Abby Devar

Allen Lane, pp.304, 18.99

‘Write and record’ was the dying instruction of the historian Simon Dubnow – shot by Nazis in the Riga ghetto – and two books recently emerging from Ukraine embody this spirit in spades. Now that the world’s anger and sympathies have largely moved on to the Middle East, they may do something to rekindle that earlier sense of outrage and remind the ‘caring’ classes of atrocities closer to home.

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