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On the front, some Ukrainian battalions were able to cross paths with a group of musicians, who travel to the soldiers to support them and make them forget, even briefly, the brutality of the fighting.
In Ukraine, a group of musicians travels through military battalions and carefully guards the insignia of those in front of whom they have played, sometimes in incredible conditions. Ten months already that they are on tour closer to the front. That morning, they have an appointment with artillerymen from Bakhmout. Nicholas is the founder of this traveling troupe. “Russians are cursed: even when they are dead, they don’t go to heaven, they go back to Russia“, he sings in front of the soldiers.
“The Scent of Civilian Life”
“It relaxes us, we forget the fights [pendant] a moment. It’s a real breath of fresh air, a bit like the scent of civilian life“, says, smiling, one of them. Inna Ischenko plays the bandoura, the oldest instrument in Ukraine. “At first, I was afraid to go to the front. I played for the first time in the military hospital in Kiev, in front of the wounded, and when I saw the eyes of the soldiers before and after playing, I understood that it was important“, she says.
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