Ukrainian Artist Margarita Polovinko Dies at 31 in Combat with Russia

Ukrainian artist Margarita Polovinko, whose drawings and photography excavated her post-Soviet reality and later, the Russian invasion, died at age 31 while serving as a combat medic. Her death was announced on April 8 by her sister, who wrote in an Instagram post, “Margarita died defending Ukraine.”Margarita Polovinko was born on March 24, 1994, in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in central Ukraine, and the cultural peripherality of her time and place informed her early artistic preo