DANYLIW RESEARCH SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE

Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s Wa

(Polity, 2025)

This is the first book about the environmental impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine. The devastation of biodiversity and ecosystems across Ukraine has been immeasurable, long-lasting and its consequences stretch beyond national borders. Forests and fields have been burned to the ground. The book is a  form of the episteme of death, a product of grief, an attempt to document and understand the violence, but also a gesture of love towards lands, waters and skies of Ukraine, and all the creatures that make them alive. ​

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Darya Tsymbaliuk is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago (US).