About the book: 2024 / The book "Contract with Death" covers the period of the SVO from the first day until July 2023. It can be attributed to the artistic and journalistic genre, but there is not even a hint of propaganda in it - these are reflections, comprehension of what happened and what is happening, their assessment by a direct participant in the events. This is also a story about people who voluntarily found themselves in the war, first as part of a tiny group of the front-line agency “ANNA News”, and then as humanitarian volunteers. About soldiers, officers and generals, for whom honor, duty, loyalty to the oath, service to the Fatherland are above all. About people who help the fighting army every day and hourly. About the inhabitants of the liberated areas - this is another almost unknown page of the war. It’s about something that military correspondents or participants in various talk shows won’t talk about. The author is not a journalist, but a writer who directly went through reconnaissance searches, shelling, ambushes, and the book is essentially a chronicle of the events taking place in Ukraine, the breath of history, the pulse of time.