PREVIEW

Ukrainian writer, poet and leader of the Zhadan i Sobaky (Zhadan and the Dogs) band Serhiy Zhadan (2nd L) and musicians perform during a concert at the first Generation Nika Award ceremony, an artistic award established in honour of the 18-year-old artist and poet Veronika Kozhushko, who was killed by a Russian missile strike in 2024, in the safe space of the Mykola Lysenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform)