The Quintessence of War

A mixture of chemical elements forms armour steel.

A mixture of pain and will of modern Ukrainian society forms a victorious energy.

One that has transformed everyone’s ordinary world into a military reality.

Life became about the here and now. The notion of “before” is already history.

This forged energy will change us all.

And the bulky, deadly military machinery of the aggressor takes on the plasticity of form after meeting the courage of Kyiv’s defenders.

A puddle of molten tank armour on a forest road, 42 kilometres from the heart of old Kyiv, becomes a monument to this memory.

Where there was fire, a trace remains.

Where there was aggression, reflection will remain.