Ukraine art dealers race back to Kyiv to save artworks from warpath

In Kyiv, an art collector-turned-civil defense fighter helps roll up art for safekeeping. Photo: Oleksandr Shcheluschenko

Katia Vozianova had gotten out.

The minute Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kyiv-based art dealer had packed a small suitcase, a hairdryer, and a single, framed watercolor and headed to the border with Romania. For the next week she volunteered by shuttling medicine and supplies from Romania into Ukraine, spending nights camped out with seven others in a friend’s apartment in Chernivtsi, a Ukrainian city about 45 minutes from Romania.