High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volodymyr Sosyura (Ukrainian: ) (born January 6, 1898 in Debaltseve, in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate (today Donbas region) of the Russian Empire - died January 8, 1965 in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian lyric poet.Sosyura fought in Petliura's Ukrainian People's Army during the winter of 1918 to the autumn of 1919, before being taken prisoner by Denikin's Volunteer Army. He was sentenced to death, but managed to escape. Later, after the UPR was overrun, he joined the Red Army