Projects Funded

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

Project	Grantee
My Captivity	Yevhen Shybalov
A documentary book by a journalist and ex-POW, detailing his 7-month captivity experience in Russia.
Refugee's Diary	Oksana Shchur
This long-read essay is a journey into the mind of a new Ukrainian woman who has had to leave a life behind and start again in the European Union
Schrödinger's Cat: A Play	Lyuba Yakimchuk
A play about a Bucha woman returning to her home and encountering the Russian soldier who killed her husband.
Short Stories Collection “Hotel Tranquility,” Based on the Topic of the Russian War in Ukraine and Real Events	Roman Malynovskyi
Publishing a collection of 15 short stories that relate narratives drawn from real experiences related to the author by friends and eyewitnesses
Staying Within the War, a Topology of Experience	Iryna Kostyshyna
A series of essays engaging with the conceptual underpinnings of the war within a postcolonial intellectual framework.
The Language of War: Letters from Ukraine	Oleksandr Mykhed
A book of essays bearing witness to the destruction caused by Russia and chronicling Ukrainian resistance.
The New Ukrainian Wave	Daria Badior
Book of essays on post-2014 Ukrainian culture makers, detailing their challenges and the renaissance in the arts for an English-speaking audience
The Second Year of the War	Andrii Krasniashchykh
Documentary series capturing everyday life and the evolving mental landscapes of Ukrainians amidst the prolonged and changing war throughout 2023
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation
Those Behind Me	Iryna Tsilyk
An intimate and poetic documentary essay about generational trauma reflecting Ukraine’s past, present, and future.
Too Far to Be Known, Too Corporeal to Be Intangible	Olexii Kuchanskyi
Regular essays in English aiming to document challenges facing Ukrainian society as the war continues, focusing on bodies, images, & technosocial renderings of corporeality
Unwinding Empire: Rethinking History and Culture Through Ukraine	Daria Badior, Anastasiia Platonova
The Unwinding Empire project widens the conversation to rethink the relationship between Eastern and Western Europe after the current war

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women