Yelyzaveta Bolotova

Yelyzaveta Bolotova is a Kyiv-based translator working between English and Ukrainian. She translates into English full-time, helping map the cyber underground. Her freelance work is in literary translation, game localisation, and film. Among other things, she has worked on the novels The World and All That It Holds and Ruination, the games Oxygen Not Included and Layers of Fear, translated into Ukrainian, and the documentary series Gone with the Water.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Marko Cheremshyna, The Village Is Trembling

Contact: yelizaveta.bolotova@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
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‘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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