Two Ukrainian artists and a Russian-born and educated philosophy pupil raised in Odesa, son of a distinguished modern artist, have been killed on the frontlines whereas combating for Ukraine in latest days and weeks. The most recent deaths come because the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion approaches subsequent month.
Timofey Anufriev, 21, was a member of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), a unit made up of Russian nationals combating alongside Ukrainian forces. The RVC, in an Instagram put up on 6 January saying his demise, described him as a hero.
“The battle started throughout his first 12 months at college in St. Petersburg, the place he studied philosophy and deliberate to grow to be a public thinker,” the put up learn. “He was disgusted by the truth that lots of his friends in Russia pretended that nothing was occurring. Due to this fact, he determined to go away Russia after which be part of the Russian Volunteer Corps.”
Anufriev, who glided by the identify Aeneas from Greek mythology, “made a selection dictated by honour,” and served as a stormtrooper, “probably the most harmful job within the battle”, the put up continued.
The RVC stated he had been awarded the medal For Help to Navy Intelligence of Ukraine. “He lived and died like a real knight and poet, within the rays of fiery glory!,” the organisation stated.
Anufriev’s father, Sergei Anufriev, who was from a household of Odesa artists, turned a key determine within the Moscow Conceptual motion within the Eighties. He co-founded Medical Hermeneutics Inspection with Pavel Pepperstein and Yuri Leiderman, who can also be from Odesa. Extra not too long ago the elder Anufriev and his spouse, the curator Katya Chalaya, raised funds for drones for the Ukrainian navy at an exhibition in Odesa in Could 2025.
Lana Chornohorska, 27, a left-wing journalist and artist identified for her anarchist and LGBTQ+ activism joined the Ukrainian navy as a volunteer and have become a drone operator. Chornohorska was killed on 1 January in southern Ukraine. A memorial ceremony in Kyiv honoring her on 6 January drew a big crowd.
Photographer and artist Yurii Kostyshyn, 48, was killed in motion in December. He joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2015, following Russia’s unlawful annexation of Crimea and incursion into japanese Ukraine.
After the full-scale invasion he was concerned in protection operations across the nation, from Kyiv to Donetsk, utilizing his cellphone digicam to file photos each of his fellow combatants and of the encircling nature. His works had been proven each in Ukraine and overseas.
Olena Herasymyuk, a author and fight medic who was associates with Kostyshyn, wrote in a Fb put up: “Thanks for creating magnificence the place others are afraid even to show their empty heads. Our pack has been orphaned immediately. By one Artist. By one Human Being. By one Warrior.”
