Since the first days of a full-scale war, the Russians have been shelling the Kharkiv region with all possible types of weapons . The artist Hamlet Zinkovsky told how the city lives under constant enemy attacks.
Hamlet Zinkovsky became the hero of the new issue of the Ukrainian Witness project. In the video, the artist not only showed his new mural on the only wall of the building that survived the shelling, but also told how Kharkov lives during a full-scale war.
“Time hears us” – a new symbolic mural in Kharkiv
Hamlet Zinkovsky is a Ukrainian artist whose works decorate houses not only in Kharkiv, but also in Berdyansk, Mariupol, Odessa, Ternopil and other cities of Ukraine. In May, the man returned to his hometown and created a new symbolic mural in the form of the inscription “Time hears us”.
This is one of the first works that I created in May, when I returned to Kharkov… A friend invited me to join his battalion and I returned to the city. What I draw is a small part of my work in the unit, the artist shared.
According to Hamlet Zinkovsky, this mural is open for interpretation. Everyone in these words will find some meaning, the artist decided not to explain what idea he originally put into the inscription.
Mural in Kharkov/Facebook photo of Hamlet Zinkovsky
It is also symbolic that the mural is located on one of the under enemy shelling of the streets. The mural of Hamlet Zinkovsky symbolically found a place among the ruins, “because Kharkov is stronger than death.”
Mural on a broken house in Kharkov/Photo screenshot from the video
And to the question of journalists, how many died in this house, the artist replied: “Even one death is already **. A person I knew personally died here. Statistics do not work here.”
How Kharkov lives during the war
In addition to the new mural, the video shows destroyed buildings in the central part of the city and a rocket stuck in the asphalt on Freedom Square. The video was shot by journalists in August 2022.
Attention! The video contains obscene language.
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