#Kyiv

With winter coming, Russia has been increasing its attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, leaving cities without essential services like heat, water, or electricity. Despite these harsh challenges, children’s clubs in Ukraine are adapting to the outages, utilizing charging stations and generators.

In an interview for UNITED24 Media, photographer Yelena Yemchuk reveals that she returned to Kyiv with no intention of taking pictures—but an organic encounter with memory, muse, and the momentum of women staying behind in wartime, gave rise to the project Mnemosyne. Her first exhibit in Ukraine, it is currently on display at  The Naked Room gallery in Kyiv.

Russia hammered Kyiv in the early hours of November 25 with a coordinated barrage of Kalibrs, Kinzhals, and Shahed drones, leaving multiple apartment blocks in flames and killing at least seven people and injuring 21, including children.

From smashing a 2,000-year-old Han dynasty urn to carpeting the vast halls of the Tate Modern with millions of ceramic sunflower seeds, the career of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been defined by large-scale statements. The very established artist, who started off as a dissident not only in China but in the art world itself, talks to us about his time in Ukraine.