Women’s Visions of War: Poetic and Visual Testimonies of the Russian-Ukrainian War Our joint presentation examines the intermedial dialogue between poetry and visual art in Ukrainian women’s representations of the Russian-Ukrainian war. It focuses mostly on the poetic works of a contemporary Ukrainian writer Olha Derkachova and the visual art of modern Ukrainian artists Sophiia Sirenko and Iryna Chmelyk. We believe that their creative voices form a shared aesthetic response to wartime experience. Their works reflect the power of women to support, inspire, and preserve memory in times of uncertainty provoked by the war. They show how artistic expression may become both a personal testimony and a collective act of endurance. Through the frameworks of intermediality, gender studies, and cultural memory, the study explores how verbal and visual forms interact to convey trauma and resilience. It highlights how different modes of artistic expression correspond to the formation of the whole picture of a country affected by war. For example, Derkachova’s poetry captures the emotional texture of daily life during war. It focuses on human connection and the fragile balance between fear and hope. Sirenko’s artworks complement this vision through symbolic imagery of the female body where each image becomes a repository of memory, while Chmelyk’s collection of graphic portraits creates the visual narrative of remembrance and respect. Together, these artistic languages construct an alternative narrative of war that moves beyond destruction toward the preservation of meaning. The interplay of poetry and painting reveals how women’s creativity redefines war witnessing, turning aesthetic practice into an act of resistance. The presentation combines close reading and visual analysis with projected images and short readings from the poems. It demonstrates that Ukrainian women artists and poets are not only capable of documenting the present, but they also shape a space of cultural resilience where art safeguards memory and identity. In this intermedial exchange, words and images merge into a powerful testimony of strength and solidarity.