^VUA is generally a mess when it comes to the language. The magazine itself is in Russian, they write in Ukrainian (and English) on their instagram account, and their covers are in English. There's been a renaissance of sorts of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine since Maidan and the war started a few years ago. You see a lot of movement toward using Ukrainian in music, movies, on tv, print, etc. Some of it because of recent laws and some because it's kind of in vogue (pun intended). But, of course, from a business standpoint, you risk losing a big chunk of your audience if you go from Russian to Ukrainian. So I can see why for VUA it's kind of a compromise to have the cover page in English.
I do like the cover. It's not as striking as I think they intended it to be, but it's pretty.