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  Amid Putin’s increased missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and Trump’s suggestion that he might walk away from the Ukraine-Russia ceasefire effort, we don’t hear much about what Ukrainians are saying. Our media doesn’t cover it, beyond a brief mention of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Easter message. Russia has regularly exported its cultural and military narratives as interesting and exotic pieces for Western digestion, but up to now there's been little mainstream consciousness-building of the Ukrainian narrative here. Now that is starting to change. Former Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba discusses Ukrainian strategic solutions in conversations with political scientists and thinkers on an ongoing basis. In an ad hoc role as influencer of the world’s perspective on Ukraine, Kuleba works on de-imperializing the popular perception of it. Award-winning novelist Serhiy Zhadan is a member of the Ukrainian army while his translated novels continue to reac...