Bonsai and Bombs
This is a record of private twitter conversations between two men (composer, Dmytro Morykit and a Ukrainian in Kyiv) who met on social media (Twitter) after Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022. Introduction Initially interacting through public posts, private messages began and built up. Twitter (now X) does not store all conversations so by the time we decided to make the conversations public, all interaction before January 2024 had been removed. For obvious reasons, our Ukrainian friend has been anonymised for the purpose of this post, but Dmytro is a well-known and active member of the Ukrainian community in Scotland and beyond. Although Dmytro is British, his father was Ukrainian and his mother Italian. Both came to the UK immediately after WWII. As a young boy, Dmytro has many memories of his father, Teodor’s, trauma and knew that his Grandparents, Uncles and Aunts were either still in Ukraine or had been killed by German or Russian armies...