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'Bring Ukraine more weapons' — author Andriy Lyubka on cultural diplomacy's main wartime role
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'Bring Ukraine more weapons' — author Andriy Lyubka on cultural diplomacy's main wartime role

by Kate Tsurkan

When the full-scale invasion began, Andriy Lyubka struggled to write. A celebrated Ukrainian writer and translator, he turned instead to fundraising, logistics, and delivering used cars to the front for soldiers' needs. Yet somewhere between non-stop volunteer work and battling with exhaustion that comes from it, he began to see that even literature — words, sentences, imagination — could also serve Ukraine's cause, albeit in a less immediate way. His volunteer work led him to write a book of

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