Report from Ukraine by Bennett Murray.
Yuri Fedorenko was asleep in his Kyiv apartment on the morning of 24 February, when he was woken up by a telephone call. Having slept through the first Russian bombardments of his city, the 27-year-old artist was confused when his friend told him that Kyiv was under attack.
Fedorenko was incredulous at first. ‘He said, today you have the day off, because we have war,’ he recalled.
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