I'm horrified and don't understand how this could happen. I hardly understand my place in this whole situation. I do not support war. This should never have happened.
I did not vote for Putin, he has been in power for as long as I can remember. In recent years, I have been busy with survival and my main concern was to keep family members and friends from committing suicide. There were five attempts in three years. The only thing I barely make a living from is art. It seems like madness to continue drawing as if nothing had happened. But if I stop, my family will quickly find themselves homeless. And perhaps this is the reason why the Russians allowed what is happening. The authorities provided us with learned helplessness from childhood and poverty, so that our thoughts were occupied only with them. I am ashamed of the actions of my country, I am scared for the Ukrainians and I do not understand what to do.