This Kharkiv cat is waiting for its stir fry with shrimps.

A sketch at Nafta coffee in Kharkiv, sign: “Coffee shop. Morning. After explosions. Quiet, as if its how it should be.”

I love how the employees of Kharkiv museum of natural history find new ways to protect the pagan Polovets idols - babas. Babas stood on hilly graves of Scythians and Polovtsians all over the Wild Field. Luhansk university had a very rich collection prior occupation too.

This Kharkiv cat is hard to see, and yet he sees everyone from his balcony.

This Kharkiv cat has seen too many Ukrainian football games.

In 2014 hordes of creative people from occupied Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea fled to free cities, and Kharkiv was lucky to become new home for many of them. Art squat Autonomia down the street from this house hosted displaced talents, “artsifying” the neighbourhood till 2018.

Deoccupation Store is a new project between Kharkiv’s restaurant owners and farmers of the deoccupied villages in Kharkiv region, aimed to bring their produce to the city dweller, and raise awareness of the need in mutual support.

This Kharkiv cat is accumulating warmth on your car tops to be able to produce energy in winter.