Ukrainian poet and serviceman Maksym Kryvtsov killed in action

Ukrainian poet and soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Maksym Kryvtsov, call sign Dali, died at the forefront.

His mother Nadiia Kryvtsova reported this news.

Maksym Kryvtsov came from Rivne. He was 33 years old. He took part in the Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv in 2013-2014.

From 2014, he fought in eastern Ukraine as a volunteer with the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, and later in the National Guard of Ukraine.

After his demobilisation in 2019, Maksym Kryvtsov began working at the YARMIZ Centre for Readaptation and Rehabilitation for Military Personnel and the Veteran Hub, a support network for military personnel and their families.

With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, the serviceman joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Maksym Kryvtsov was a poet. In an interview with gazeta.ua, he said that he had started writing poetry when he was a teenager. In the autumn of 2023, he published the collection Virshi z biinytsi (Poems from the Battle Hole), which was included in the list of the best Ukrainian books of 2023 according to PEN Ukraine.

Earlier, Svidomi told how the Soviet government had destroyed the Ukrainian intelligentsia long before writers, poets and artists could become world geniuses. The Ukrainian culture of the last century did not have the opportunity to stand alongside the best of world art.

Persecution and murder affected the development of Ukrainian culture at that time, as the creative process was interrupted several times and slowed down in its development.

Today, Ukrainian artists continue to die on the frontline, as a result of Russian shelling or in occupation. We wrote about some of them in the article The (Un)forgotten Executed Renaissance of the Present.