Ukraine Art Dealers Race Back to Kyiv to Save Artworks From Warpath
Two gallerists returned to the Ukrainian capital in mid-March to get as many paintings and drawings out of the city as they can.
An art collector-turned-civil defense fighter helps roll up art for safekeeping.
Source: Oleksandr Shcheluschenko
Katia Vozianova had gotten out.
The minute Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kyiv-based art dealer had packed a small suitcase, a hairdryer, and a single, framed watercolor and headed to the border with Romania. For the next week she volunteered by shuttling medicine and supplies from Romania into Ukraine, spending nights camped out with seven others in a friend’s apartment in Chernivtsi, a Ukrainian city about 45 minutes from Romania.