Today marks exactly three years since Putin launched his most recent war of aggression against Ukraine. The war is senseless – all wars may be said to be senseless, but this one takes the cake. According to the Kyiv Independent, Ukraine has lost roughly 46,000 troops since the invasion began. Russia has lost just shy of 900,000 among those killed and wounded. The number of Ukrainians injured – including civilians – runs into the hundreds of thousands, not to mention the kidnappings, rape and torture victims, and other atrocities perpetrated by the Russians on innocent Ukrainian citizens. May this war end soon, and may it end with justice for Ukraine. Слава Україні! Slava Ukraini!

Below are a few poems I wrote an published during the first months of the war. I repost them here by way of solidarity with Ukraine and its people, as well as those standing with Ukraine on the right side of history.