Northeast & East-Center Ukraine artists, furries, and stories on FurAffinity

Links to the other 'regional focus' Journals:
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10264842/ -- Kyiv region Ukraine artists, furries, and stories on FurAffinity
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10246683/ -- NE & East-Center Ukraine artists, furries, and stories on FurAffinity <-- this Journal <you are here>
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10225029/ -- Kharkiv/Kharkov region artists, furries, and stories on FurAffinity
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10203165/ -- Donbas/Donbass region artists, furries, and stories on FurAffinity <-- area of greatest need
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10230885/ -- Southern Ukraine region artists, furries, and stories on FurAffinity <-- also an area of great need
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10255501/ -- Central & Western Ukraine artists, furries, and stories on FurAffinity
_{the order is simply geographic in a clockwise circle from north to east to south to west, it is not based on need (Donbas and Southern Ukraine are the areas of greatest need)}

If you are listed in this Journal and you want your line/listing/text changed, please post a Comment or send me a Note. If you are not listed in this Journal but would like to be, please post a Comment below requesting to be added (if your account was created in 2022 or has less than 30 Watchers, be prepared to 'prove' you are a real Ukrainian by contacting someone on the list who has more than 49 Watchers and convincing them that you are a Ukrainian from this region and getting them to post a Reply to your Comment that supports you or requests for you to be added).

The previous three 'regional focus' Journals for Kharkiv, Donbas, and Southern Ukraine focused on the heavily Russophone East and South of Ukraine (see map 1 or 2 from this Wikipedia article regarding the Russian language in Ukraine) because they were where most of the active fighting was by May/June 2022. The predominately Ukrainian-speaking West and Central regions of Ukraine have been comparatively safe from ground attacks during the war* with Russia (so far), although they suffer from ballistic/cruise missile attacks as well as an influx of refugees, unemployment, rising food prices, scarcity of gasoline and other effects from the war* being fought on the ground in the Donbas, Eastern and Southern Ukraine. This Journal will focus on the East-Center region where the Russian and Ukrainian languages have roughly equal prevalence, excluding most of Kyiv, which has many more than 30 FA members and deserves its own Journal (the Chernihiv, Sumy, eastern Kyiv, Poltava, Cherkasy and eastern Dnipropetrovsk oblasts). Other than the big cities of the NE region (Chernihiv and Sumy) that are near Belarus and Russia that were heavily damaged in February/March and some villages that were overrun by the Russian military on its drive towards Kyiv in February and March of 2022, much of this area does not have active fighting as of May/June 2022 but is threatened or 'just behind' the regions where active fighting is taking place.
_{*or "special military operation" if you prefer that phrase or are legally required to use it (on threat of up to 15 years in a gulag)}

These 'regional focus' Journals seem to be most effective when they have about 30 people. Since I haven't been able to find that many FA members from just Northeast (NE) Ukraine and trying to cover Kyiv here would add too many (over 50), I am expanding this Journal to cover the entire East-Center region (essentially the remaining area east of the Dnipro river that was not covered in one of the first three Journals). This division is somewhat arbitrary but it is trying to make a group of the areas that would be in serious danger if the fighting expanded, or might be in danger if this happens again in 2, 5, or 10 years. Unlike the big Journal of Ukrainian artists who need assistance/help at https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10138995/ these 'regional focus' Journals are for everyone who is/was from that region/area of Ukraine (including people who are in good financial condition and non-artists). This Journal is a work in progress and will be updated over the next few days and weeks. Please post a Comment or send me a Note if you want to be added or want your listing/text changed.


ALERTS & REQUESTS: (updated 21 July, 2023)
There does not seem to be a popular 🇺🇦 FA member (with 999+ Watchers) up in Chernihiv or Sumy to try to help out the newer members (in those damaged cities) -- maybe some FA member in Kyiv or even Lviv will volunteer to do it. [added 19 June... still waiting 19 July]
 Tailel's mother was just killed in a missile attack in the Chernihiv region, see https://www.furaffinity.net/journal...../#jid:10630059 <-- 21 July 2023
UArt is a new (as of 6 Sept) collaborative 'art store' account to help showcase artists from Ukraine
Rishinoya saw the 14 January Russian missile strike on a Dnipro apartment building, see her account of it at https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10443906/ (by Rishinoya) <-- she saw it happen!

GREATEST NEEDS: (circa 14 Nov)
Most of the 'greatest needs' are people who are either still in or refugees from Kharkiv, Donbas, and Southern Ukraine, so see those links.
M.a.o needs help with medicine and medical tests, see https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10378559/ (donations or commissions needed) [11 Nov]
Castycom and F43filipp are refugees from other regions where conditions are WORSE
^{(Greatest needs listings automatically expire one month after listing unless renewed by a request in a Comment or someone is from a destroyed/occupied area)}

NEEDS: (circa 19 July)
groodger & michi-nii & Forswoen_6 <and others> lost his/her/their job (or lives on commissions) and could use commissions
YunnyLynx need commissions [added 19 July] needs money for university [24 August]
whisperingstone needs commissions or donations, see https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10268544/
F43filipp is looking for a job and could use some aid/assistance (or a commission) [added 12 July]
ugh_del just lost their lodging space recently and has no job except art [added 27 June]

Good news, these people have been helped: M.a.o needed money for medicine, see here [added 4 July & succeeded by 9 July, see here]

Internally-Displaced People (IDP) now living in this region:
F43filipp (fled from the Donbas to Poltava) , Castycom (fled from the Kharkiv region to Poltava) , Somhp (fled from the Donbas to Dnipropetrovsk)
^{(These FA members fled from somewhere else in Ukraine where the conditions were WORSE!)}

NE & EAST-CENTER UKRAINE artists/furries list:

(with a quote copied {or translated} from somewhere on FA, [or a summary]... which may be out of date)
_{If anyone would like to be added or deleted from the list below or wants the quote/summary changed please post a Comment or send me a Note.}

Key to the symbols:
<sub>ᵒ = might still be in their city/oblast/region (need to check <or> they want to be vague about their current location)
* = still in their city or oblast [as of May 2022]
☦ = dead (none that we know of yet, thankfully) ; F(☦) = a Family member died in the war ; f(☦) = a good friend died in the war
Ⓢ = now somewhere safe/safer
ⓒ = takes commissions
℗ = has a Patreon (and probably takes commissions too) [the symbol also has a link to their Pateron account]
Ⓑ = has a BuyMeACoffee
Ⓚ = has a Ko-Fi
[W:#] = how many Watchers on FA when added to the list (to help direct aid and attention to less well-known members)
✔ = has replied to me
✔✔ = has replied to me & has linked to or 'boosted' this Journal [every ✔ after the first also has a link to where they 'boosted']</sub>

Northeast Ukraine

This region includes the border between Ukraine and Belarus/Russia that is east of the Dnipro river and north of Kharkiv oblast and the Donbass (Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts). The major cities of Chernihiv and Sumy suffered heavy damage in the first couple months of the Russian invasion, while the fate of the towns and villages varied a lot - with some being occupied and others being bypassed or left alone. The Russian army withdrew from this region in early April 2022 and by May/June the only internationally reported attacks in the area is regular cross-border shelling from Russia into the Sumy region.

-- NE region (Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts, & Kyiv oblast east of the Dnipro) --
Chernihiv/Chernihivshchyna oblast:
_{[Total population is just less than 1 million and it has the lowest population density in the country. On 5 April 2022 Governor of Chernihiv Oblast Vyacheslav Chaus stated that the Russian military has left Chernihiv Oblast]}

Chernihiv/Chernigov/Черні́гів/Черни́гов city (heavily damaged in March, 2022):
-- FA members (3) --
 HateuKesh* ⓒ [W:29] ("Hello, I'm Sasha and I'm from Chernihiv. I have been here since the start of hostilities. It was scary to find out that the shells flew near my place of residence and look at these destructions, because they could fly regardless of the location of important objects, but simply at the houses where people live. Now the situation is quieter, the fighting has moved to more eastern regions, but the air sirens continue, and this has a very bad effect on the nervous system.") from a Note ✔
 saykaruma* ⓒ [W:15] ("Hello, my name is Liza, I'm from Ukraine. I spent the last month in an occupied settlement in the Chernihiv region. Only a couple of days ago I was able to return home to Chernihiv. 70% of this city is destroyed.") see 1 & 2 ✔
 Tailel* ℗ [W:21] ("Hello everyone!~ I'm from Ukraine, the hero city of Chernihiv!") from Profile page and see here ✔✔

Other city/town/village:
-- FA members (1) --
 YunnyLynx* ℗Ⓑ [W:638] (is in Chernihiv oblast) ("I'm from Koryukivka <a small town which is ~270km from the capital>, and from beginning of war this town wasn't affected (not at all, russian troops appeared there for a few times, but fortunately no shooting/blasts/etc)") ✔✔

Sumy/Sumska/Sumshchyna/Сумська́ oblast:
_{[Total population is just more than 1 million. On 8 April 2022 Governor of Sumy Oblast Dmytro Zhyvytskyi stated that all Russians troops had left Sumy Oblast.]}

Sumy/Суми city (UA controlled, heavily damaged in March, 2022; still has occasional cross-border shelling from Russia in June):
-- FA members (1) --
 M.a.o* ⓒ [W:31] (is in Sumy) ("I live in Ukraine, in a small town near the Russian border. I graduated from art school. I had dreams... But now I'm not sure of tomorrow. I can't plan more than a month ahead anyway. But I keep doing what I love. The drawing, I mean. And I will be really grateful to everyone, who will support me and my work.") see here & "This is my first art raffle" ✔

Kyiv oblast: (just the part east of the Dnipro river possibly including the city of Brovary/Brovari but not Kyiv)
_{<this section is still in work - contact me if you are from Brovary (Brovari) or Kyiv oblast east of the Dnipro>}

Brovary/Brovari city:
_{https://www.furaffinity.net/search/.....rovary|Brovari (a suburb of Kyvi to the east, almost ended up like Bucha) <no results as of late June>}
-- FA members (1) --
 LeMaSᵒ ⓒ [W:1948] ("I am from Ukraine and today I woke up at 5 am not from the best sounds - I hope for your understanding") from here, see 1 2 3 ✔✔

Central Eastern Ukraine

This region includes the portion of Ukraine east of the Dnipro river but not bordering Russia, the Black Sea, or occupied territories. It is 'comparatively' safe by May/June 2022 except for ballastic and cruise missile attacks, which can happen anywhere in Ukraine (but seem to be particularly frequent in Odesa and Dnipro). It includes some areas that are west of the Dnipro river just to keep an oblast (political sub-division) that spans the river together in one place.

-- Central NE region (Poltava and Cherkasy Oblasts) --
Poltava oblast:
_{[Total population is under 1.4 million. The entire Poltava oblast is east of the Dnipro river but is comparatively 'safe' since it does not directly border Russia or the Donbas. It has not suffered direct ground attacks during the 2022 invasion.]}

Poltava city:
-- FA members (3) --
 Castycom* ⓒⒷ [W:255] ("In April he had to live his city in Kharkiv region because of frequent shelling. Now he lives in Poltava") from here ✔
 groodgerᵒ ⓒ [W:173] {"Greetings from Poltava.‎"} ("I'm from Ukraine and currently, I'm out of the job, please consider commissioning me.") & see this ✔
 F43filipp* ⓒ [W:16] [fled Lysychansk (Donbass), now in Poltava] ✔✔

Kremenchuk city (and nearby):
_{https://www.furaffinity.net/search/?q=Kremenchuk -- no search results in early June but by 27 June there were several artworks about a Russian missile strike on a shopping mall}
-- FA members (2) --
 ugh_del* ⓒ [W:566] "I’m Ukrainian. I’m currently pretty safe¹. Favs and watches are super appreciated!" see StandWithUkraine day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 42 50 ✔
¹written here on Feb 25, 2022; however things have changed after a Russian missile strike on a shopping mall on Jun 27.
 Darkside_Royaltyᵒ ⓜ [W:73] ("russia officially invaded my country (non-officially started 2014). Feel free to ask anything. I will answer as detailed as possible.") from here. ⓜ = helps manage other artists' commissions (see here for a description)

Cherkasy oblast:
_{[Total population is under 1.2 million. It has not suffered direct ground attacks during the 2022 invasion. Only a small part of the oblast is east of the Dnipro river, but this list will include anyone in the part of Cherkasy oblast that is west of the Dnipro river & Cherkasy city, just because this list is fairly small.]}

Cherkassy city:
[Cherkassy is on the comparatively safe west bank of the Dnipro river between Kyiv and Kremenchuk]

Uman' city: [no known FA members]
[Uman' is about halfway between Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovohrad Oblast) and Vinnytsia (Vinnytsia Oblast) ]

Other/unknown village/town:
-- FA members (1) --
 Almatea* ⓒ℗ [W:1646] [Almatea is from Cherkasy -- see here; in a reasonably safe location, far from Poland, has a horse, no horse carrier] 1 ✔

-- Central SE region (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast east of the Dnipro river) --
Dnipropetrovsk oblast: (only the eastern portion & Dnipro city for now) [no known FA members]
_{[Total population was ~3.14 million (2021 est.) before the war.]}

Pravlohrad city: (the major city in part of Dnipropetrovsk oblast that is east of the Dnipro) [no known FA members]

Dnipro city:
-- FA members (~15) --
 -Riska-* ⓒ [W:6114] ("I'm currently helping to provide refugees, soldiers and people in need with food, money, medicine, clothes and shelter
And if you want to take a part... you can purchase some of my current YCHs") from here on Feb 26 ✔
 Free-Opiumᵒ ℗ [W:5479] mentions being in Dnipro here https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10141073 [back on 24 June]
 NastyNatalie* ⓒ [W:2224] ("Let's f*ck Putin over together, and let's f*ck him over WITH BUNNY PORN.") from here
 Carota17* ℗ [W:2174] mentions being in Dnipro here and has posted a photo of her hometown. ✔
 SpiritAlpha* ℗ [W:1197] "Yeah I’m fine thank you. I’m safe in Dnipro and do everything I can for our country." from here & "I’m not in any urgent state, there are people in need more than I." from a Note ✔
 BlackFreeman* ⓒ [W:870] ("I'm staying safe and trying do my best for go on living and helping my country in this dark time.") ✔
 AlisonHolt^Ⓢ ⓒ [W:544] ("I continue to worry about my family that I stayed in the city of Dnipro.") from here
 covarddappy^Ⓢ ⓒⓀ [W:304] "Currently I am more sitting in twitter and in hiatus... but hope to return to fandom as soon as possible" ✔
 whisperingstone* ⓒ [W:217] "Now there is a war in my country and I stayed in my city Dnipro (the East of Ukraine). I don't have an opportunity to move to a more safe place right now, and I hope I won't have to do it." from here ✔✔✔
 Inferendi^Ⓢ ℗ [W:104] ("I am from Dnipro, this is the southeastern part of Ukraine. For a long time, our city was the most peaceful in this area, and even now it is still not so dangerous here. But there are bad things. We were bombed yesterday and today. The rockets flew into residential areas, kindergartens, factories... Luckily, there were almost no casualties. For now...") from here see story here ✔
 Forswoen_6* ⓒ [W:61] ("I'm from Ukraine. now I'm in the Dnipro. I lost my job because the clients left") see here ✔
 All619ᵒ ⓒⓀ [W:58] {"I am from the city of Dnipro. Fortunately, the area is quiet, but you don't know what to expect."} from here ✔
 gene^Ⓢ ⓒ [W:3] ("Ukrainian artist that needs support") ✔✔✔
 Somhp* ⓒ [W:2] ("I'm still in Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk, but my family remained in the Donetsk region and I want to help them leave") from here ✔
Navi_the_Faun* ⓒ [W:18] -- is from a village/town near Dnipro city (see below)

Kryvyi Rih/Krivoy Rog/Кривой Рог city (UA controlled, a 'front line' city)‎:
_{[Kryvyi Rih is sort of the southern analogue/equivalent of Kharkiv or Sumy, but does not get as much international news]}
-- FA members (6) --
<FA members in Kryvyi Rih are currently listed in https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10230885/ and are repeated here 'cuz it is a 'frontline' city>
 Saltamorᵒ ℗Ⓚ [W:1824] ("Украина, Кривой Рог") location on Twitter https://twitter.com/Saltamor , takes donations ✔✔
 The.Fool^Ⓢ ℗ [W:749] ("in Kryvyi Rig") from here [now safe in Canada, read her story here and more] <friend of michi-nii> [last contact 3 May]
 Hagalazka* ⓒⒷ [W:690] ("We're still staying in Kryvyi Rig") from here; currently running a raffle here (till June 22) ✔
--The_Kraken--^Ⓢ ⓒ [W:403] ("I lived in Ukraine, Krivoy Rog but now I'm in safe place in Portugal.") from FA Profile page ✔
opfelianᵒ ⓒ [W:183] {"Hello! Can I get on the list? City of Krivoy Rog!!"} from here ✔
michi-nii^Ⓢ ⓒ [W:84] "I am from central Ukraine, the city of Kryvyi Rih (near the Dnieper)" from a Note <friend of The.Fool> ✔

Other villages/towns/cities in southern Dnipropetrovsk:
-- FA members (1) --
Navi_the_Faun* ⓒ [W:18] [is from a smaller town in the south of the Dnipropetrovsk region that is within artillery range of Russian-controlled territory, but so far they do not shoot at her town] ✔

Unspecified or undisclosed area in the oblasts/regions covered above

-- FA members (1) --
Rishinoya* ⓒⒷⓀ [W:27] ("I from NE & East-Center! Every time I see how people try to help, tears of gratitude well up...") from a Note ✔

Other 'dangerous' areas of Ukraine

Undisclosed location in the 'dangerous' areas of Central Ukraine, or any 'dangerous' region in eastern or southern Ukraine:
_{[may also be from/in one of the neighboring oblasts or Eastern Ukraine (possibly even the Donbas), if they really don't want to give their exact location for whatever reason]}
This is also where icons/people may go until I have contacted them to find out exactly how/where/if they want to be listed (for instance if they've publicly stated that they are 'in a dangerous area of Ukraine')
-- FA members (0) --
<<none currently, but this section is a 'placeholder' for people who do not want to reveal their actual location>>


FA SEARCHES:
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/.....aine|Ukrainian <-- general search for Ukraine or Ukrainian things
Some searches specific to the northeast & east-center regions of Ukraine and its cities:
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/.....vka|Kremenchuk <a combined search for many NE and east-center oblasts & cities, excluding popular character names>
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/?q=Sumy [northeast]
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/.....ihiv|Chernigov [northeast]
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/.....kasy|Cherkassy [mid Dnipro river]
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/?q=Poltava [northeast-central] [4 results, all characters of that name]
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/?q=Konotop [1 result, a 'Darwin Award' nomination for a university student there]
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/?q=Dnipro
<no search results for these, as of June 2022>
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/.....rovary|Brovari (a suburb of Kyvi to the east, almost ended up like Bucha)
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/?q=Koryukivka (a town of ~12,000, northeast of Sumy)
https://www.furaffinity.net/search/.....s%20Kremenchuk (on the Dnipro river, south of Cherkasy) [on 27 June there were several artworks about the shopping mall bombing]


JOURNALISM:
Here are some assorted news articles about northeast and east-central Ukraine:
https://understandingwar.org/ <or> this <-- change the last day [a good source of war news]
This YouTube channel has some interesting analysis (Perun, 164k subscribers)
<this section is still in work> (if you are from the NE or East-Central regions then please suggest some informative news stories)


HOW YOU CAN HELP!:
see the section in the 'southern Ukraine' focus Journal (just above the Quotes): https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10230885/

You may link to my four Journals about artists/furries from East-Center Ukraine, Kharkiv, Donbas, and Southern Ukraine. You may copy any/all of them or translate them to Russian/Ukrainian or any other language. Please give any/all of them and/or the big Ukrainian artist support Journal an advertisement/repost/'signal boost' (post a link to them) if you want to.

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Quotes from some people on FurAffinity who are in/from northeast and east-central Ukraine

Here are some assorted separate quotes I have read (since I started working on this Journal) that were written by people currently in or from northeast and east-central Ukraine. I tried to focus on peoples' individual personal experiences and their expressed opinions. I am also trying to reflect the overall 'spirit' of the area/region. The people and their viewpoints vary and although the order is not random they should not be read as if they come from one person who was trying to tell a consistent story. Any appearance of a consistent story from their order was created by me and the order I chose for these separate quotes from different people from different towns/cities the area:

> "I'm from Ukraine and my native language is russian (i know it doesn't make sense)"
> "I saw your regional focus Journals before"
> "yes, sure, I'd like to be in the list!"
> "Yes, I can be included in the list, do I need to write something? unfortunately I don't know anyone on the site"
> "unfortunately I don't know any artists from my or Sumy region on FA."
> "I think we should not include us <in a city on the Dnipro river> yet, while everything is calm,"
> "Kinda dead because there is to much work I need to do, but I'm ok!"
> "From my experience only one russian person helped me at the beginning of the war"
> "Everybody gets tired of the news, but the problems do not disappear"
> "Okay, I've uploaded some photos."
> "I could help people, especially those who decided to go to Germany."
> "I sent messages to the new people - hopefully they will join our group) Also thank you - i created the group and there is already 7 members!"
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> "I'm really appreciate your work!"
> "I am very grateful to you for what you are doing!"
> "And thank you so much for helping ukrainian, it means a lot for us"
> "Дякую тобі за цю важку працю! І дякую за побажання"

_{People can claim their individual quotes if they want to, but do not need to admit/claim the quotes as theirs. If someone wants me to remove their quote or to move it somewhere else in the list of quotes, please send me a Note. I tried to "tell the story" that I thought I was reading from people in the region but the "story" I wrote is not the only story that can be told and I am sure some people will not agree with parts of it. If anyone else wants to put the quotes in a different order to "tell a different story" I will probably be amused to see it, however if you want to tell your own personal story it is probably better to do that in your own Journals or in the text under one of your own artworks and just include a link to that here.}

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_{P.S. Together the four 'regional focus' Journals I have completed so far cover 12 out of a total of 24 of Ukraine's oblasts (administrative regions). I may eventually try to make Journal(s) to highlight the other oblasts/regions that have been heavily affected by the war, including the city of Kyiv and its suburbs, all of which saw fighting or significant missile attacks in the first two months of the invasion. Kyiv definitely deserves its own list but I am hoping someone from the city will eventually undertake that effort. Ideally people from other regions would do something like this Journal for their own region. If you would like to help (or work on any of those) please send me a Note and it will be finished much sooner.}