We are all witnessing the horror of the war in Ukraine. Like many of you, we feel heartbroken and powerless. Although everything might seem insignificant compared to what is happening, we wanted to pay a small tribute to the heroic people of Ukraine through the images and voices of our PhotoVogue community.
We have more than 6,000 Ukrainian artists in PhotoVogue; Ukraine is a country with incredible vision and creativity. Art unifies us and brings us together. Over the next week, we will be rolling out the artists’ photographs accompanied by their words about the experience of the war.
War, Day 20. Russia launched a massive invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
My name is Yasha. I’m 23. I’m Ukrainian: born, live, create, work, feel, love…here, in Kyiv, Ukraine. And it’s very painful for me to see what the Russian and Belarusian troops under Putin are doing now in my country. Occupiers came here and made their own rules. They are inhumanely destroying cities and architectural landmarks; bombing houses and districts; killing civilians, children, and whole families (even in times of evacuation); not complying with the rules of peace agreements (about green humanitarian corridors); doing dangerous fighting on the grounds of nuclear power plants (which is unsafe for all of Europe and beyond), brazenly brainwashing their Russian citizens; and they continue doing all these things. They think they’re liberating us. But this isn’t true. We have a good, promising country that is developing at its own pace and we had a great life here…before this.
For the first days of the war I was in Kyiv with my family. I remember it all started early in the morning. And it was something. On that day, the roads were already clogged, people with suitcases walked anxiously through the streets. I heard explosions and felt them under my feet. I saw how worried my mother was, I saw the eyes of my frightened younger sister. The next night some fragments of a downed shell hit the house near the school where my sister studies. The house burned down and of course this is not the only case in Kyiv and Ukraine. Some cities are already off the face of the Earth (like Kharkiv, Mariupol…)
I never read the news like I do now. My every morning, day, and evening consists of this during this period. I worry about my acquaintances, colleagues, and friends. Every day I ask how everyone is doing. Someone went to the west, someone went to relatives in the villages, someone stayed in Kyiv.
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