Russia’s war against Ukraine is the best-documented war in the history of the world. The book Dialogues on War is an archive record of how opinions about Ukraine and its power have been changing during the first year of the full-scale invasion. The thoughts and positions of intellectuals from all over the world, the gradual justification of their agency, the creation of an international language “about us and the war” and the process of gaining agency with each subsequent answer about Ukraine and Ukrainian without the prism of the occupier’s imperial gaze. How do we talk to the world about Ukrainian in our own terminology, within the framework of our history?