Ukrainian army medics

Heavy injuries and amputations among Ukrainian troops declined in April compared with March, reflecting improved battlefield care and training, Ukraine’s top commander said on May 3.

On an October evening in Kharkiv, the Kharkiv Literary Museum hosted a poetry night in my residency apartment at Slovo Hause — the same building where the Ukrainian avant-garde once lived, wrote, and later died under Stalin’s repression. This time, the readers weren’t academics or professional writers. They were soldiers of Ukraine’s 2nd International Legion — men and women who fight by day and write by night. Their poems were raw, sparse, often unpolished — but honest.