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Wars are turbulent phenomena that fundamentally transform nation states, or state-society-complexes (SSC), their ideological wiring and institutions. Social relations change: between classes, sexes/genders, national identity/ies, ethnicities, culture(s); make societies more resilient and/or more fragile. In this paper I discuss transformations in Ukraine’s SSC since late 2013 until now, the full scale Russo-Ukrainian (neo)colonial genocidal war that began in Feb 2022. I study effects that those many ruptures had on the balance of power between classes, sexes/genders, and ethnic groups, their nature, political economy and culture in the context of the (neo)colonial genocidal invasion and the inevitable reckoning with history. I inevitably draw from a mix of disciplines by a mix of methods: analysing sociological surveys, anthropological studies, journalistic investigations, relevant ministries’ activity, and economic statistics data, by tracking changes in legislation and the State Property Fund activity. In addition, I deploy discourse analysis around the notion of national identity to show the prevalence of its civic form and the changing positioning of the ethnonationalist one. I conclude by discussing the resultant shape of Ukraine’s SSC, the avenues of evolution open for it in the current Reconstruction Plan (unveiled Lugano 07.2022), limitations/dangers for future stability inbuilt in its design, and ways of overcoming those.