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"When she approached the outskirts of Kyiv it suddenly seemed to her that the city was on fire"
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.
April 5(?) 2022. My friend Maria from Kyiv, at the beginning of the war, hiding in her country house in the small Demidov village. After more than a month staying in basement, her baby daughter fell ill and needed good medical care. Maria walked almost 40 km on one side of the road, because the way hadn’t been cleared of mines and traps yet and it was impossible to drive a car. when she approached the outskirts of Kyiv it suddenly seemed to her that the city was on fire, although it was only a reflection of the setting sun in the surviving windows .
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