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"Kyiv city now lives like in a game of Russian roulette"

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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.

Kyiv city now lives like in a game of Russian roulette

"Kyiv city now lives like in a game of Russian roulette: in the relative probability that some missile or its fragments will hit your house.

Every day from bombings, from hypothermia, hunger, lack of drinking water and infections in the occupied cities small children die, same way like poor little Setsuko. There is a humanitarian catastrophe in Mariupol city, the impossibility of evacuating.

In my soul I correlate this train scene from ,,Grave of the fireflies,, with another one train scene from ,,Spirited Away,, which I drawn with great pleasure and good mood. a month ago? in some other past happy life?"

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