This timeline is created to tell people about Ukraine's heroic resistance against full-scale russian aggression. February 24, 2022 is the day it all began... Strap in
Lesia Pik
January 1, 2023
2023 — When I was a child, I found a rabbit's foot on my grandmother's balcony. ‘What an abomination’ I thought to myself. But when I asked my grandmother, she said it’s “for good luck”. No one in our family was a hunter, so I don't know where it came from and where it disappeared to. In general, I am against giving some parts of the body magical properties, but I remembered this story when I heard that 2023 is the year of the rabbit. This new year might also be difficult — so maybe this painted paw will bring us happiness and victory. I hope to see you all this year, in a free Ukraine!
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
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Jullia Lyshanets
January 1, 2023
Let the Armed Forces in 2023 bring us more dead orcz and victory for our country 🇺🇦. And no matter how difficult the past year was, never forget to tell the children of the future what we experienced in 2022. This is our story, a true story that our next generations need to know. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!
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Irina Kostyshina
January 5, 2023
Wish for 2023 — ever since Ukraine's counteroffensive started, I would almost cry every day seeing footage of people from the liberated territories greeting Ukrainian soldiers. Some of them were family members and some not, but anyway, I want so much for all who are at the front line to go back unharmed and the victory to happen sooner
Artist
Irina Kostyshina is an artist & graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. She works mainly in editorial illustration and also as a comic artist, combining digital and traditional media in her works. Since the full-scale Russian invasion, Irina has focused on creating war-related illustrations and educational work on her Instagram feed to tell the truth about Ukraine.
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Jullia Lyshanets
January 9, 2023
Bakhmut today is a hellish city where shelling does not stop for more than a minute. The fighting does not stop, day or night. The occupiers are shelling the city with aircraft, artillery and tanks, killing the inhabitants and all the living things that are left there. Yesterday, near Bakhmut, the border guards occupied a stronghold of the occupiers, they pushed them back with a surprise attack when they did not expect it, so... Bakhmut is Ukraine! Bakhmut stands!
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Lesia Pik
January 14, 2023
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
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Nina Teafornina
January 15, 2023
14.01.23 Yesterday a residential building in Dnipro was hit by a russian missle, after another mass missle attack. A whole section of the building is gone. There are 75 injured and 25 dead, and the rescue operation is still ongoing. I have no words left to express my grief and anger.
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Daria Lucyshyna
January 16, 2023
Dozens of Ukrainian civilians are trapped under the rubble after the #russian attack on my hometown #Dnipro. The missile hit a big residential block on a holiday, when people were mostly at home. It's reported that residents sent texts from their destroyed flats to help locate them, and every now and then the rescuers stop working to identify the voices from under the ruins
Artist
Daria Lutsyshyna is an artist born in Dnipro, living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. Daria creates illustrations, posters, and graphic design. During the full-scale Russian invasion, she focused on illustrating war-related texts, news, her own experience of war, and reflections on its nature and consequences. She believes art is not "outside of politics" and artists and their work matter and can make a difference.
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Irina Zarubina
January 17, 2023
Blackout, view from my kitchen in Kharkiv. Silence and darkness, only once in a while an ambulance shines its headlights into the dark windows.
Artist
Irina Zarubina is an illustrator who was forced to leave her native Kharkiv Ukraine at the beginning of the war moving to another safer city. She illustrated children's magazines and books now she mainly works with illustrations for websites, articles, and clothes.
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Jullia Lyshanets
January 20, 2023
Every day shelling and casualties, every day people die somewhere, every day someone loses their home, their heart. There were happy people in every house. They built a life. They dreamed and created plans. They loved, gave birth to children, rejoiced in their grandchildren. Whether it was in Dnipro, or in Mariupol, or in Bakhmut, or in Borodyanka, or in Kherson, or anywhere else, there were happy lives! And then the occupier crushed this happy life in one day and left behind ruins.
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Jullia Lyshanets
January 22, 2023
In 1919, during the war, when we were attacked from all sides, Ukrainians united into one nation. This union became important for the people, because it laid the foundations of our identity, our “UNITY”. Then our people from different corners realized that they have everything in common: history, language, identity. In 2022, they wanted to destroy our identity, but we were united again by our UNITY! From Kharkiv to Lviv, from Odesa to Kyiv - the people united for the sake of the integrity of the free state, for the sake of restoring unity with the occupied territories. Unity is us! Unity is the goal of Victory!
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Julia Zinchenko
January 23, 2023
Day and night, there is a constant struggle for our freedom, our future. Know your roots so you can soar, but be yourself. Know your identity, know who you are, what your language is. What was 120 years ago, what transpired since 2014, and what is now. Initially, the illustration was only about language, but it is about everything, everything is so connected. If you lose the memory of who you are, the traditions of your country - you will lose your culture. I am very pleased that now we hear a lot about our history, self-awareness, culture and traditions.
Artist
Yulia Zinchenko is an illustrator from Kyiv. She draws both digitally and traditionally. When the full-scale war began, she started to paint on the subject of the war in Ukraine in order to convey the events and feelings to the world, and to keep Ukraine’s struggle at the forefront of world news. In the past, she loved to draw her dog the most. She would like to work on illustrations for books and is always open to interesting projects.
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Lesia Pik
January 25, 2023
Artist
Lesia is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine. She started drawing 8 years ago after a bad leg injury put her previous career on hold. After leaving Odesa in April 2022, Lesia continues to paint and visualize Ukraine and the invasion. “Drawing for me is a hobby, a job, and a way to reflect. Every time another terrible event happens, I think to myself — again? How can this get any worse? And then I sit down and draw and cry... This is my way of surviving this grief because no one can be aloof. I believe in our Armed Forces, and our victory!”
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Daria Lucyshyna
January 26, 2023
Artist
Daria Lutsyshyna is an artist born in Dnipro, living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine. Daria creates illustrations, posters, and graphic design. During the full-scale Russian invasion, she focused on illustrating war-related texts, news, her own experience of war, and reflections on its nature and consequences. She believes art is not "outside of politics" and artists and their work matter and can make a difference.
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Russia still represents a clear and present danger to all democracies and peace-loving countries in the world. It wages war by bombing hospitals, homes and schools.
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