"His mother couldn’t t evacuate in time"

Yuliya Tveritina – Academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, master of linear painting, graphic artist, and illustrator. Julia is from Kyiv. For many years she has been living and working in Suzhou (China). From the first days of the war the artist began to keep an art diary of the war.

May 10, Bucha. My friend Igor, together with his mother, admires the blooming trees in the garden near their ruined house. He returned to Bucha from Cologne (where he lives and works) as soon as it became possible, but his mother couldn’t t evacuate in time and spent a very stressful days - 27th of them she sat closed in the basement, along with other residents.

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