A Fictional War (Which the West Can’t Win)

In Lesia’s three-in-one poem A Fictional War, two voices speak in separated monologues but are also integrated and juxtaposed. The poem confronts the battle of narratives (lived, reported experience versus Russian lies) that rage alongside and form a critical part of the war and brutal violence in Ukraine.

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