A Ukrainian student living in Chicago shares her perspective on the Russian invasion of her homeland. | unlistenmusic
Courtesy of Lisa Korneichuk
Right now my family are in Kyiv, and my uncle and his family and his young children are in Kharkiv, a city that is under very heavy shelling and missile attacks. These attacks are happening in civilian areas. Kyiv is surrounded by small suburban towns, and all of them are suffering very heavily. Many of them are almost completely destroyed. People there are on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, and this happens not only in these big cities, but around all of Ukraine.
” the same as they did in Donbas in 2014. But people protest against this every day. I think this is an eloquent example of Ukrainian stances on this. After that, the LGBTQ+ organizations got more exposure and established mass demonstrations in Ukrainian cities. They happened in many cities, where it was just unthinkable before. Many new art and cultural platforms opened after 2014, both governmental and artist-run. Ukraine stated its desire to join the European countries, to join the democracies, to join some sort of basic idea of how the contemporary society should work based on the values of law and freedom.
I was thinking today that I’ve actually learned a lot about the world in these past couple of weeks. The way the world has responded to the war is very insightful. I see how capitalism works in war, I see how lobbying works in this context, how countries can state some values and never follow them. I see how both the far right and the far left can take the same position of “These are two empires [the U.S. and Russia] fighting each other.” This is bullshit.
In the West, it’s hard to explain that when you are talking about Ukrainian topics, you have to invite Ukrainians to speak. You have to amplify Ukrainian voices. There is research that suggests that 70 percent of the Russian population supports this war or actively approves of the actions of their government, but I often see how art institutions, cultural institutions, and schools invite Russian speakers to talk about the events while Ukrainians are missed.
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