The military invasion started by the Russian Federation against sovereign Ukraine on the February 24 in 2022 has changed life dramatically including its cultural and creative side. In conditions when more and more Ukrainians are making a decision to give up Russian language as an understandable and symbolic gesture, Russian-speaking Ukrainian literature has to rethink itself. The main goal of this paper is to reveal the evolution of the image of war before and after the 24th of February in creative work by Es Soya in the context of current events and to analyse how old texts were enriched with new connotations. Es Soya (a pen-name of Eugene Stepaniuk) is a Russian-speaking Ukrainian poet-bitnik born in Odessa in 1992 who nowadays temporarily lives in Paris. He has always been well-known for his extremely intimate intonation in love poetry and lyrical performances with musicians. Moreover, earlier the image of war has not appeared in Soya's pieces of writing very often but after the beginning of the full scale Russian invasion in 2022 even his old texts are characterised with new symbolic meaning.