People around the world have been calling for peace since the start of the Ukraine-Russian war. Nataliia Bondarenko works for the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and is a native of Ukraine who came to the United States as the war started. Bondarenko joined Jeff Hamlin to reflect on four years since the war started.

On March 8 at 3:00 PM, at Moeser Auditorium (UNC–Chapel Hill), we present the Ukrainian Lullaby Concert, developed in collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute.

In North Carolina, Ukrainian women — most of them refugees — wrote lullabies for their children. They wrote about leaving home, fear, love, and new life in the middle of war.

These are not just songs. They are personal stories — told in t ...