States seeking to join the European Union (EU) must extensively harmonise their laws with the EU acquis. Ukraine applied for EU membership on the fifth day of Russia's full-scale military invasion in 2022, following years of legal approximation under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement 2014. Since June 2022, Ukraine has been an EU candidate state and continues to reform its legislation amid resistance to Russian aggression. In late 2022, a new Copyright Act was adopted, implementing some of the obligations under the Association Agreement, provisions of the more recent EU secondary law and occasionally the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) case law. This chapter places the recent developments into the context of the legacy of Ukrainian (copyright) history. Harmonisation with the acquis amid the resistance to Russian aggression becomes a catalyst of copyright recovery. The chapter emphasises the value of exploring the legacy of Ukrainian history beyond the mere Soviet past and aligning underlying values as a cornerstone of the recovery process.