"Lena is pregnant and leaves with the hope of waiting out the war in Lviv"

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.

Lena is pregnant and leaves with the hope of waiting out the war in Lviv

36th day of the war
with a few words about evacuation. None of my family left Kyiv during the war, but I can imagine how deafeningly scary it is when you suddenly find yourself at the train station with a small bag in your hand, in which there are your passport, some food and maybe pair of socks and no return ticket.

March 10, 2022. My friends, newlyweds Sergiy and Lena say goodbye at the railway station in Kyiv. Lena is pregnant and leaves with the hope of waiting out the war in Lviv. Her husband leaves for the front line. Sergiy is a very peace-loving calm man, he is big fan of tea culture and writes essays on oriental studies. The last thing Sergiy wants to do is fight, but he has no choice today, if he wants his former life back, like all of us.

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