This book has come out of the art project Icons on Lids of Ammunition Boxes initiated and led
by Sofiia (Sonya) Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. Painted on fragments of empty cartridge
containers brought back from the front the icons are silent witnesses to Russia's covert war
against Ukraine in the Donets Basin in 2014-2021. At the same time they are testimony to the
victory of life over death - not only in symbolic but also in real terms. Since the spring of
2015 the project was a volunteer initiative whose revenues support the Pirogov First Volunteer
Mobile Hospital. This unit provided medical assistance to military personnel and civilians in
the Anti-Terrorist Operation Joint Forces Operation zone. The contributors to the book
include Volodymyr Rafeyenko Hennadiy Druzenko Archimandrite Kyrylo Hovorun George Weigel
and Zoya Chegusova.