ah, thanks for your comment - getting feedback from others is always very valuable to me 💚🧡

aaaaaaaah this is brilliant!!

Thank you for your reaction and feedback. I'm really glad this got some attention💞

And also, of course, about the rats who live here too — mine always joined me in the hallway during the night attacks. I’m so grateful they turned out to be such tough little girls and didn’t get too scared by the sounds of explosions.

I tend to paint for these events about personal things rather than general themes, so I’m glad if this helps you see a little more of what daily life in Ukraine is like these days.

whether there’s any news about how many missiles or drones are flying toward our city, and whether there have been any horrible hits.

Thank you if you’ve read this far.

The broom, dustpan, and the fuse box you can see in the drawing — those are very typical items you’ll find in a Ukrainian shared hallway. As for the neighbours, this is the image that came to mind: a little rat without a phone asking the sleepy me, “anything on the news?” — meaning

That’s when we all step out into the shared hallway — because of the so-called “three-wall rule”, it’s considered safer there than staying in the bathroom or anywhere else inside the flat.

Usually we just sit on chairs or a bench.

By the third year of war, your body gets too exhausted to react to every single air raid siren at night, so I only wake up when the explosions are strong enough.

Hmm… over the past three years I’ve moved between several apartments, and somehow I’ve met almost all my neighbours not with a friendly pie (I’m not very sociable when I’m living somewhere temporarily, lol), but in the hallway at night — during missile attacks.

I don’t think this drawing will reach a big audience, but since the current event is about rats, I made something personal — and I’d like to explain it a little for those outside Ukraine.