Alyona Alyona
While many Ukrainian women fled the country to seek safety, Savranenko – who goes by the artist name Alyona Alyona – decided to stay.
“I felt like I was needed here, because there are people here who can’t go abroad,” the 30-year-old tells me over Zoom from her flat in Kyiv.
Although if she had kids her decision would have been different: “then I would’ve left Ukraine because my only goal would be to protect their lives.”