Yevgenia Belorusets a Wartime Diary from Ukraine
(Yevgenia Belorusets)
(From “Victories of the defeated,” a photo series from eastern Ukraine, by Yevgenia Belorusets.)
Ukraine War Book – Codastory. com
A wartime diary by Yevgenia Belorusets – Artforum
This diary will be updated daily and is copublished with Isolarii press.
This ability of the residents of Berdyansk to fight on and on, to approach the soldiers unarmed and shout the truth in their faces, even when the city has almost fallen into Putin’s hands, promises a lot. It is hope itself.
My father is a translator, he translates German poetry into Russian. Thanks to his translations of Paul Celan, I fell in love with this poet when I was still a student. For years, since the Maidan Revolution, he has published his translations almost exclusively in Ukraine.
He took part in protests back then, I remember calling him from Berlin and finding out that he was standing with the demonstrators at the parliament building. Then I heard an explosion; luckily he wasn’t hurt. Now he is in Kyiv. He feels quite weak after a long cold and cannot go to the shelter. Maybe he doesn’t want to either. Every day I see how he continues to work on his translations. Despite the rocket attacks, despite the danger, or maybe because of it.