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Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia’s war on Ukraine in 2022 Ukrainian literature and culture reacted with a number of novels, poems, art works that documented the ongoing war. Ukrainian war literature became a tool of communicating the war reality of war in 21^st century to the world, which is confirmed with multitudinous translations into foreign languages. It also revealed the phenomenon of “discovering” (according to Oksana Zabuzhko) Ukrainian culture that shares the war trauma in the European cultural sphere. This paper investigates the way of revealing the reality of war in novels of contemporary Ukrainian writers such as Oleksand Mykhed, Andriy Liubka, and Andriy Kokotiukha. It also analyzes the peculiarity of exposing the war atrocities and reflects the trauma narration during Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.