The War in Our Country and on Our Phones
From the first day of the full-scale war, we receive messages. From different relatives, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, from parents across the border, from Russia. And mostly it feels like “living in parallel worlds.”
Some of them are against the war, they go to anti-war rallies, or spread the information, and speak the truth.
It means a lot, thank you!
It means a lot, thank you!
But most of the people, people from neutral accounts about art that we were subscribed to, our relatives, our acquaintances - ignore or start to blame Ukrainians. They justify a full-scale invasion, sometimes clearly sometimes in a veiled and dramatic way. Someone even gloats over the deaths of Ukrainians. This is another type of pain for us, for our friends from Crimea and Donetsk, whose families are there and do not believe in the tanks that we see outside of the window.
There is a war in Ukraine for 8 years. The war was unleashed by Russia and these eight years we lived here with it. Some of us had to flee and escape from territories occupied in 2014. Others initiated projects to help front-line regions. Someone was expelled from their homes but continued to speak, support, and spread information.
We sketched a few statements from this online battle, what we and our friends hear these days, what we read in the comments of peaceful social media accounts on culture.
