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.

People on the subway escalator during another 4-6 hour air raid alert

From diary: people on the subway escalator during another 4-6 hour air raid alert, Kharkiv, spring 2023.

Yesterday the shell hit a residential building (residential buildingS, to be precise, in different cities) again. This is a “safe” territory behind the front line. We only vaguely, from photographs and distant news, imagine what happens in that places, where it’s “hot”... It happens too often to be able to get used to and adapt.