My grandpa’s town has been recently attacked by the russian military again. I watched clouds of black smoke rise above the alley where I biked every day to the lake on summers. Grandpa was so proud to have built this town and its power plant. At nights the plant roared. It was scary and magical.

How I signed an email as a Ukrainian: 🫠

This distinguished Odesan gentleman wishes all a quiet Friday.

This Kharkiv cat is a spirit of autumn and a great yoga instructor.

This Kharkiv cat has all the energy you need for the day.

I wonder why do the russian people always speak so loudly in transport in Europe? It is an ever irritating agent, as if they claim this supposedly shared space as well. Or maybe it is me ever irritated that they have a cart blanche on killing us and being so present in EU at the same time.

These Kharkiv cats are your spirits of past, present, and future.

Guess which culture this exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum Dundee belongs to? Hint, not Ukrainian. Yet, there are always connections between women, preservation of traditions and embroidery.

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We have talked about arcades with students today. No one could recall the most famous arcade in Kharkiv - known today as Kids’ World. The construction started in 1914, but WW1 changed the plans. By 1925 when the arcade was completed, trade and flaneurs weren’t on the agenda and👇

Ukrainian paints are conquering art shops of Edinburgh.

A reader sent me this photo, and that’s exactly the vibe I put into this book. Thank you ❤️.

Join our book talk at School V, University of St Andrews, on 10 years of art and activism in Kharkiv @standrewshist.bsky.social @energy-ethics.bsky.social @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

Kharkiv streets follow me in the dreams. A friend suggested putting a fireplace in my apartment, when all the energy is destroyed. It’s absolutely illegal. But so is for the russians to destroy our homes.

This Kharkiv cat works in movies and didn’t want to be photographed so that we didn’t steal his soul. Wise.

While russian military are threatening Kharkiv with another ridiculous sounding weapon (‘oreshnik’🥴🌰), here’s a chilling Kharkiv cat doppleganger of @number10cat.bsky.social.

This Kharkiv cat is Friday business planner.

This Kharkiv kittler wishes all an energetic week.

❗️russia struck a kindergarten in Kharkiv, children are injured "A hit on a private kindergarten in the Kholodnogirskyi district, children are injured. There is a fire at the strike site," writes the city mayor Ihor Terekhov. 😡

Sometimes traveling to Europe as a Ukrainian, I feel like that rabbit from an antique shop.

Four russian guided bombs fall on private Kharkiv houses. It is a green neighbourhood, my parents’. Quiet streets, shops and parks. Just like the area in Vienna where I walk serenely. Otto Wagner’s church in the setting sun. Five hours before explosions in Kharkiv.

Taking a picture in a Berlin Photo Booth at night was a good was to start our reading tour of Kharkiv is a Dream. @buchmesse.de 19.10, 16:00 H4.1 F93; Vienna 20.10 ZSI 12:30; Graz 21.10 Ziegel 19:00; St Andrews University 29.10 16:00.

Kharkiv is a Dream: Searching for the City, 16:00 @buchmesse.de A Talk with Hjørdis Clemensen, Viktoriia Grivina, Vasylysa Schogoleva. Moderating: Ganna Gnedkova Meeting point: Frankfurt Bookfair, Halle 4.1 stand F93 @ibidem11 @goetheinstitut Ukraine.

This Kharkiv cat is a medieval witch.

Come to our presentation of Kharkiv is a dream at 16:00 on 19.10! @ibidem @buchmesse.de #Kharkiv @kharkivisadream.bsky.social

This Kharkiv cat invites you to a Kharkiv book reading in Berlin today.

Friends in Berlin, come to our first presentation of the book, Kharkiv is a Dream. Tomorrow at 6pm!

This Kharkiv cat controls the quality of pizza.

This Kharkiv cat is an autumn holidays decorator.

My friend was at a workshop in Netherlands and saw Europeans who didn’t know about the Russian war on Ukraine. Two of them have never heard of Mariupol and Kakhovka dam. These young people live with blindness to the war that is rolling closer to them every day. I wonder why.

This gorgeous Kharkiv cat wishes all a quiet weekend.

A 1930s residential house, “the Medic”, designed by Viktor Estrovych in Kharkiv was originally built for the employees of the health committee. Has elements of Ukrainian Moderne style.

This is your support Kharkiv kitty for Friday.

This Kharkiv cat is a university dean.

This Kharkiv cat is a king of Moskalivka neighbourhood.

Explosions, explosions, endless explosions in Kharkiv. The world is silent, silent, silent, complicit.

This Kharkiv cat is a Monday mood investigator.

This Kharkiv cat is looking into future and says that supporting Ukrainian armed forces now is cheaper than hiding from russian drones and bombs later.

russian department: we are not at all like other russian departments, we are good and progressive, and support you “all affected by war”. Also russian department: promotes part time jobs at russian media 🫠. How little they care about Ukrainians dying under bombs.

A pretty Kharkiv Kitler for your soul.

This Kharkiv cat has a serious talk.

This Kharkiv cat wishes all an inquisitive week.

“But it’s difficult to hold grudge in heart, when there is so much beauty in the world”.

In the morning russian shaheed drone hit another historical building in Kharkiv. A bookshop nearby is one I always dropped by walking the neighbourhood.

The legacy of Bruno Schulz is sensed everywhere in Drohobych. From a plate on the place he was shot by a Nazi officer, to a humorous word play at a local shoe store - Bruno Shoes. I have never seen such a literary place. Ivan Franko, Mitzkevich, Stefanyk, Schulz.

An old food store building in the Moskalivka neighbourhood in Kharkiv.

Read about the last chapter of our book:

Chapter 3. 2013, Hjordis: Kharkiv came across as a fairly rough and unpolished place when I first visited. The particularly huge square in the very center, the huge buildings surrounding it, and the wide roads with lots of traffic gave an impression of toughness. But then, when I 👇

This Kharkiv cat is an architect.

This Kharkiv cat comes from luxury.