23 Breathtaking Illustrations Inspired By The Horrors Of War Have Been Shared By A Ukrainian Artist
We have just one single home, and that is our planet. We ought to guard it and not destroy it. War is the most awful mistake.
The best answer to war is never to start it in the first place. War is horrible and affects the well-being and prosperity of countries.
The effects of war can cause more mortality and incapacity than any major sickness you can think of. War destroys nations and families and often scatters the advancement of the social and financial texture of countries.
The impacts of war include long-term physical and mental damage to both young and grown-ups. Most of all, war can cause death, and this is what Ukraine suffers from most.
A Ukrainian artist and illustrator named Olga Wilson wants to spread the message to all generations that war is the biggest mistake of humanity. He does this by sharing his "war notes," which he depicts through drawings.
His drawings are a "tribute to the victims of the war" and he wants to "save the memory of them and the horrors Ukrainian people have to endure". He shares his art on his Instagram account, which has over 30K followers, and also on his Twitter account.
According to the artist, "We all are connected. Our energies and souls are connected, so use your energy to create good, not evil." Below are some of his best works, which show that we should reject war and embrace peace.
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1. Animals are dying
Every living being is a sufferer of war. Animals in shelters and farms in occupied territories are massively dying from lack of food and water or after shelling. I watched a terrible video recorded in Borodyanka. Volunteers found only around 150 animals who survived out of 485.
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2. Lives are lost
Anastasia Yalanskaya's life ended on the 10th day of the war - March 4 in Bucha. Nastya and her two friends were shot by occupiers right in a car while returning from the dog shelter, where food for dogs was brought.
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3. Bucha
Bucha... Our hearts are shattered into thousands of pieces. The beautiful hand belongs to Iryna Folkina. We won't forget.
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4. Pregnant people lose their lives
14.03.22 there was information about the death of a pregnant woman in Mariupol after the missile hit the maternity hospital.
She had a separation of the right thigh, caesarean section doesn’t save her child... I would like to dedicate this small art to this mother and other women, who were forced to suffer from war.
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5. Bullets are flying around
In Mariupol, a Russian occupant shot in the face of an 11-year-old girl. The bullet passed through the jaw and injured the root of the tongue. Currently, Milena Uralova is in the hospital with her mother. She is recovering but is still very nervous and afraid of every sound. Milena dreamed of becoming a professional gymnast.
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6. Places are bombed
Historian, Jens-Kristian Wagner, published on his page on Twitter a note about the death of 96 y.o. Boris Romanchenko.
Boris Romanchenko was a prisoner in fascist concentration camps and survived Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen. But he didn't survive after a bomb shelling by the Russian army.
After the bombing of his apartment in Kharkiv, only his bones and ashes were found. In 2012, Boris Romanchenko read Buchenwald's oath "to create a new world where peace and freedom reign" during the celebration of the anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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7. Natalia loses her life
Train conductor Natalia Babicheva.
For two weeks, her evacuation train rescued people from all over Ukraine. It came under fire when it was going to Lyman to pick up a group of children. Natalia died of shrapnel. She was 48 years old. Her daughter says she wants to be as brave as her mother.
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8. Animals are tired
Patrolmen found a dog in a broken car in Bucha. The dog was so exhausted that he slept right on the broken glass.
The animal was taken to a veterinarian, and after that, one of the patrolmen took it to himself.
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9. People are captured
The head of the Luhansk regional military administration, Serhiy Haidai, made a short report.
On March 11, Russian occupiers fired from a tank at a nursing home in Kreminna. They put a panzer in front of the house and started firing. Those who lived till old age in this house - 56 people died on the spot. 15 people who survived were abducted by the occupiers and taken to the occupied territories.
10. No one knows what will happen next
I want to dedicate this small drawing to all of those, who start every morning by checking if their relatives and friends are still alive and safe and if their houses are still standing.
12. Sasha loses her arm
Sasha lost her arm when she, her stepfather and her mother came under fire trying to leave Gostomel.
Her biological father said: “Sasha is not a victim. Sasha is a hero. She is a symbol for me. She managed to survive, she had enough energy, and she had enough strength. Thanks also for your prayers. […] The child will grow up and start looking for information about herself. She will start reading about the events of this time. It will be hard for her.” Let’s try to make this world a happier place for children and their future.
12. And just like that, they're gone
On February 28, 2022, near Makariv village, a Russian fighting vehicle fired a burgundy Daewoo Lanos from a 30-mm cannon. An elderly couple was in that car…
13. People having to evacuate
On March 6 a family of mother, boy and girl died from mortar shelling near Irpin, while trying to reach evacuation buses. Father, Sergiy Perebyinis, recognized the tragedy from photographs in news.
A 26-year-old volunteer died as well while helping to carry a bag. Father gave an interview, which was published in The New York Times. In the year 2014, the Perebyinis family had already evacuated from Donetsk, which was occupied by Russian soldiers. A family moved to the Kyiv region to start a new life...
14. Children aren't spared
On the afternoon of 16 March, Russian aircraft dropped a super-powerful bomb on a drama theater in the center of Mariupol.
About a thousand residents were living there and were using it as a bomb shelter. Satellite images clearly show that in front and behind the building there were made big white signs in capital letters "CHILDREN" for aviation pilots to avoid this place.
15. People just want to live
Russian soldiers shot in a line of civil people, waiting for bread. 10 died on spot. Chernihiv, March 16, 2022.
16. They need all the help
From the very beginning of the war, we come across horrible stories about when children are left alone. What to do if a child is lost and you want to temporarily provide shelter? The Office of the President of Ukraine together with UNICEF and the Ministry of Social Policy has created a chatbot for a telegram: @dytyna_ne_sama_bot
It can be reached from abroad as well.
17. War is evil
On April 5 it was officially declared about the death of a boy Sasha. Many people joined to search for him, as they hoped to find him.
Sasha and his grandmother fled from the occupied Vyshhorod district. The boat capsized, and grandmother and other people in it died. A child was in a life jacket, but he couldn’t be found for a long time. Three weeks later, the body was found. Sasha's mother Anna wrote about that on her Instagram.
18. Amen...
On April 7, in the village of Motyzhyn, Bucha district, Kyiv region, the village head Olha Sukhenko, her husband Ihor and son Olexandr, who were killed by the Russian military, were buried.
Olga, her husband and her son were found tortured to death by the Russian military.
May their souls rest in peace…
19. Not one will be forgotten
In Chernihiv, a family of 5 people died due to an airstrike. March 17, 2022. Not a single family will be forgotten.
20. Protect lives
Grandpa protects the baby`s sleep in a refugee shelter in Zaporizhzhia.
21. Stop the killing
Russia fired missiles at the Kramatorsk railway station. According to the authorities of the region, as of 17:00, it is known about 50 were dead (5 children) and almost a hundred were wounded.
22. Everyone deserves to live
On 29 March around 08:45 AM Russian missile hit a nine-story administrative building of a regional state in Mykolaiv. More than 30 are recognized as dead so far.
23. Choose peace
Krasnobryzh Igor Vitaliyovych died defending his hometown Mariupol, where he was born and where he lived.
As individuals and nations in the twenty-first century, we must learn to evolve and not act from a place of force, but from a place of logic, diplomacy, agreement, and rationality. That is the primary objective of mankind.
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