The Ethical Pact in Russophone Wartime Writing investigates the importance of ethical relativity in war narratives, and how ethics, notions of guilt or innocence, responsibility or culpability, are discursive appendages that often obscure the more nuanced relationships between culture and state power during times of war. Questions of how Russophone writers have conveyed the “truth” of wartime experiences strike with renewed resonance after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s reliance on false narratives and distortions of history to justify his illegal invasion of Ukraine since 2014 have necessitated both academic and artistic resistance to set the record straight. This imperative motivates the final chapter of The Ethical Pact that focuses on Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine and the relationship between present day Russophone writing cultures and Russian militarism. Ultimately, The Ethical Pact explores what it means for there to be an ethics of narrativizing Russian war, of what it means to tell “true” stories about war, even as notions of truth are radically altered by political, cultural, and ethical contexts.