Larissa Babij

Larissa Babij is a Ukrainian-American translator, writer, and Awareness Through Movement (Feldenkrais method) teacher based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her translations of Ukrainian artists–thinkers have appeared in Krytyka and The Evergreen Review. She is also a freelance interpreter between Ukrainian and English, specialising in movement/performance and military training. Her book A Kind of Refugee, based on her wartime dispatches on Substack, will be published by ibidem Press in 2024.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Victoria Amelina, Three Poems
Kateryna Iakovlenko, A Voice from Underground

Contact: larissa.babij@gmail.com

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Wartime Childhood

• Issue 4 (June 2025)

This issue explores the topic of wartime childhood. Through reportage, conversations, history, and art, it highlights the experiences of young people growing up in Ukraine today, and of the adults responsible for protecting these children from Russia’s genocidal policy. This unflinching look at the Ukrainian present poses urgent questions about our shared future.

Sasha Dovzhyk
Cover Image for ‘To fight for every child’: Advisor and Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights Daria Herasymchuk in Conversation

‘To fight for every child’: Advisor and Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights Daria Herasymchuk in Conversation

• Issue 4 (June 2025)

Daria Herasymchuk provides a comprehensive and sobering account of what Russia’s invasion is doing to children. Demonstrating resolve and resilience, she describes Ukraine’s efforts to ensure the safety of children at home and worldwide.

Svitlana Osipchuk, trans. by Daisy Gibbons
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