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On this Ash Wednesday, Days Of Ash is released as a self-contained collection of five new songs and a selected poem - American Obituary, The Tears Of Things, Song Of The Future, Wildpeace, One Life At A Time and Yours Eternally (ft. Ed Sheeran & Taras Topolia). This new EP is a response to current events, inspired by the many extraordinary and courageous people fighting on the frontlines of freedom. Four of the five tracks are about individuals – a mother, a father, a teenage girl whose lives were brutally cut short - and a soldier who’d rather be singing but is ready to die for the freedom of his country. Days of Ash EP available now. Listen here: u2.komi.io

Announcing the 2026 gift for U2.com subscribers. The bundle includes the Days of Ash six track CD (the only physical version of the EP), the 52 page print edition of Propaganda, and one of seven limited edition posters. Available for new subscribers and fans who re-subscribe. Visit U2.com for more information: u2.com/subscribe

“I would like to emphasise that the soldiers whose lives are shown in the video are ordinary people who did not plan to combine their lives with the army. But they have to sacrifice everything today, in order to have a future in which they and their children can live freely again and have the right to freedom of personal choice. I now see my mission as witnessing these stories and bringing them to the world.” - Ilya Mikhaylus, Ukrainian cinematographer and filmmaker Yours Eternally documentary short film now available on YouTube:  U2.lnk.to/yourseternally Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda: u2.komi.io

A young woman trains for combat, with the poise of an athlete. Alina Shukh is 26. She once threw the javelin for her country but is now on the front line of the battle to save Ukraine from the Russian invasion. Her colleague is wounded. As Alina radios for help, a mortar shell lands nearby. The explosion makes her flinch, momentarily, but she carries on. All of this is seen in the documentary short film inspired by the band's new song Yours Eternally. Yours Eternally documentary short film now available on YouTube: U2.lnk.to/yourseternally Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda: u2.komi.io

Photography by director Ilya Mikhaylus on location of Khartiya Corps — for the “Yours Eternally” documentary short film. Ilya Mikhaylus, director Pyotr Verzilov, producer - @gruppa_voina Khartiya Corps - @khartiiabrygada Yours Eternally documentary short film now available on YouTube. U2.lnk.to/yourseternally Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda. u2.komi.io

Today, on the 4th anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian cinematographer, filmmaker and member of the Khartiya corps Ilya Mikhaylus releases a 4½-minute documentary short film inspired by U2’s “Yours Eternally” from their Days of Ash EP, released last week. The film was shot during the Winter of 2025 while Mikhaylus and his crew were embedded alongside the @khartiiabrygada in Ukraine. It captures the extraordinary daily lives of Alina and her fellow soldiers fighting on the frontlines of the war. Yours Eternally documentary short film now available on YouTube: U2.lnk.to/yourseternally Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda: u2.komi.io

Yours Eternally sees Bono and The Edge joined on vocals by Ukrainian musician-turned-soldier Taras Topolia, as well as Ed Sheeran. In the spring of 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bono and The Edge traveled to Kyiv to busk in a metro station at the invitation of President Zelensky. A couple of days prior to that, Ed connected @TarasTopolia, and by extension his band @antytila_offic, with Bono. Bono, Taras and The Edge met for the first time on that subway platform and have been friends ever since. Taras is the inspiration for ‘Yours Eternally’, a song written in the form of a letter from a soldier on active duty with a bold, mischievous spirit to match Ukraine’s. Tomorrow, on the 4th anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a 4 1/2-minute film documenting the lives of Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines that uses Yours Eternally as a soundtrack will be released. Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda here: u2.komi.io

One Life At A Time is written for Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian father of three, nonviolent activist and English teacher, who was shot and killed in his village in the West Bank by Israeli settler Yinon Levi on July 28th, 2025. Awdah was a consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, made by Palestinians and Israelis. At the time of his death, one of the directors, Basel Adra, spoke of the slaughter of his friend and the experience of Palestinians being erased “one life at a time.” U2 took that line and turned it around to suggest that a peaceful resolution will be wrought, one life at a time.  Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda here: u2.komi.io

The Days of Ash EP includes Wildpeace - a poem by Israeli author and poet Yehuda Amichai – narrated by Nigerian artist Adeola of Les Amazones d'Afrique, with music by U2 and Jacknife Lee. Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda here: u2.komi.io

Song of the Future honors the schoolgirl uprising in Iran and the life of 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh, one of thousands of Iranian schoolgirls who took to the streets as part of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in 2022. These protests were sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in Tehran on 16th September that year from injuries sustained following her arrest by the so-called ‘morality police’ for not wearing a hijab in accordance with government standards. Seven days later, Sarina was beaten by the Iranian security forces and died from her injuries, the regime claiming she killed herself. The song aims to capture Sarina’s free spirit, the promise and hope of her short life. Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda here: u2.komi.io

The Tears Of Things borrows its title from a book by Franciscan friar Richard Rohr, which examines, through the writings of the Jewish prophets, how one can live compassionately in a time of violence and despair. The song imagines a conversation between Michelangelo’s David and his creator… where the young man with the sling and five smooth stones refuses the idea that he has to become Goliath to defeat him... he’s also revealed as having heart shaped pupils half a millennia before the heart shaped emoji, which puzzles visitors at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy, to this day. Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda here: u2.komi.io

American Obituary speaks to the shocking event the world witnessed in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 7th, 2026 where Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a peaceful protestor, was shot and killed at almost point-blank range by ICE, an arm of her own government. This unarmed mother of three was then described as a “domestic terrorist” by an administration who will not withdraw the description even though they know it’s not true or mount a proper enquiry into what happened for the sake of everyone involved. Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda here: u2.komi.io

U2 Days of Ash EP is accompanied by the return of ‘Propaganda’, a one-off digital zine, published forty years after the first edition of U2’s original fan magazine was issued in the spring of 1986. ‘Propaganda’ was always about much more than the band, born out of the punk-era D.I.Y. zine culture that embraced attitude, ideas and dialogue. In the spirit of those early issues, this special publication of ‘Propaganda’ titled ‘U2 - Days Of Ash: Six Postcards From The Present… Wish We Weren’t Here’ explores the human stories that inspired the tracks on the Days of Ash EP. Days of Ash EP available now. Read Propaganda here: propaganda.u2.com

On this Ash Wednesday, Days Of Ash is released as a self-contained collection of five new songs and a selected poem - American Obituary, The Tears Of Things, Song Of The Future, Wildpeace, One Life At A Time and Yours Eternally (ft. Ed Sheeran & Taras Topolia). This new EP is a response to current events, inspired by the many extraordinary and courageous people fighting on the frontlines of freedom. Four of the five tracks are about individuals – a mother, a father, a teenage girl whose lives were brutally cut short - and a soldier who’d rather be singing but is ready to die for the freedom of his country. Days of Ash EP available now. Listen here: u2.komi.io