Translated by Tatiana Rudyak

I am an artist from Ukraine. 10 days after the war started we left Kyiv, under bombardment, getting the first random train, with huge difficulties There were 17 people in a single compartment. The whole corridor of the train car, all the entryways and platforms were filled with people and pets in their crates and carriers… Light blocking, sounds of explosions, people were crestfallen, cats, dogs and parrots were also silent. I was drawing the whole way.

That is how the series “Evacuation. Kyiv-Lviv Train” and the series “Here They Go” came to be.