Writings from the War is a volunteer project aimed at collecting, preserving, and disseminating testimonials of Ukrainians about their experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Documenting thousands of testimonials (texts, videos, and photographs) will provide the world audience with a panoramic, firsthand picture of the Ukrainian tragedy and allow those affected by it to be heard. Such an archive will also constitute an important research source for historians, culturologists, philosophers, political scientists, and students, as well as a source of inspiration for artists throughout the world.

The materials will be disseminated on social media (Facebook and Twitter), and stored in a central archive on the project’s own website, both in the language of the original and English translation.

The project’s social media pages:

https://www.facebook.com/WritingsFromTheWar

https://twitter.com/WarWritings

All three platforms – Facebook, Twitter, and website – will be coordinated and interconnected, and contain a great deal of documentary evidence submitted by people from all over Ukraine. These firsthand testimonials are being transmitted to us from various hiding places; from shelters, train stations, and refugee camps; from besieged cities. Our sources contain testimonials by soldiers, volunteers, doctors, drivers, teachers, animal rights activists, cooks, artists, and scientists – people of all professions; by adults and children, displaced persons, rescuers and the rescued – in short, anyone interested in sharing their experience with the world. This is a panoramic picture of the wartime “everyday,” reflecting private experiences during this catastrophe. All the testimonials are provided to our project by the witnesses themselves, and every story has a title, and a record of the person behind it, kept by us.

Records of all donations and expenses will be made publicly available on the website.