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Volodymyr Voyt

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Upon leaving his Kyiv home for relative safety in Lviv, Voyt was unable to bring any of his 15 banduras, traditiona­l Ukrainian stringed instrument­s that resemble lutes. “We had just two small bags and one small bag with food for the train,” he says of the 10-hour journey, during which alarms frequently sounded, causing the train to shut off its lights and travel in eerie darkness. Voyt, 42; his wife; and their 2-year-old daughter are safe at his mother-in-law’s house, but he was unable to play music until a friend loaned him the bandura in this photo. “First week, I couldn’t hear any music,” he says. “We ate, but no appetite. After we move here, I understood the music is my life. I must play.”

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