Variety: Staff at Ukraine’s top studio, Film.UA, didn’t think much of the abandoned bomb shelter on site. A vestige from past conflicts, the sealed shelter remained unused next to the company’s extensive wardrobe department for years. But at the outbreak of war, the space was hurriedly reopened to host at least 90 Ukrainians taking cover from Russian air raids.
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I can only imagine what these people living in Ukraine are going through right now. I went to Ukraine last summer and while there visited numerous cities including Odessa, Kiev, and Lviv. I have so many Ukrainian friends that I made during my trip there and it absolutely breaks my heart to see the news coming from Ukraine. I truly thought that warfare and cruelty of this kind were coming to an end, but I guess I was wrong. I even remember going to the breakaway state of Transnistria, which is a non-recognized independent Communist state in Moldova, and upon leaving was greeted by a line of trenches and military earthworks to enter Ukraine and Odesa. This area is now a full-scale battlefront, but then I truly still thought that the war in Donbas was a faraway thing that couldn’t truly intensity or affect western Ukraine. What hurt the most was seeing on the news a housing complex blocks from where my friend and I stayed having been hit by a missile. I knew this area very well and it pains me to see what is happening to not just the city of Kiev but the civilian areas of it as well. I miss Ukraine so much and will definitely be visiting again when the war there subsides, but I fear this war will permanently change the country as a whole.
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