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Kateryna Lykhohliad, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Iryna Novitska and Olena Rybka, chaired by Tetyana Teren

Occupation diaries. In memory of Volodymyr Vakulenko

Lviv BookForum 2023, 

Presentation of the book by Volodymyr Vakulenko-K. I'm turning..., which included the occupation diary the writer kept in February-March 2022 and his selected poems. The book will be published by Vivat publishing house.

Diary of Volodymyr Vakulenko-K. – painful and truthful records that contained his thoughts and observations from the beginning of the full-scale invasion and during the occupation of Izyum and his native village of Kapitolivka in the Kharkiv region. Until the abduction by the Rashists, the inevitability of which he was aware, as well as the fact that he had little chance of survival - because he is Ukrainian because he is a volunteer, and activist because he has dignity. The day before the abduction, Volodymyr buried the diary under a cherry tree in his yard, telling his father: "When ours come, give it to them." What is it like to live under occupation? What do people become? What opens before the eyes and in the heart?

Kateryna Lykhohliad, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Iryna Novitska and Olena Rybka, chaired by Tetyana Teren