The environmental narrative about Ukraine has for decades been dominated by the single event of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster. However, interdisciplinary research in environmental humanities offers a more nuanced history of how nature and the environment have been conceived of, depicted, and treated in Ukraine under the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, as well as post-independence—that is to say, from 1991 to the present. This talk draws on examples from Ukrainian modernist literature and contemporary life-writing, not only to bring awareness to the immediate environmental consequences of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, but also to contemplate long term strategies for addressing the global climate crisis in the age of the Anthropocene.