This project explores one of the most subtle yet powerful forms of protest that emerged in Ukraine following the Russian invasion in 2022. The idea for this project came to me during a trip to eastern Ukraine when I noticed a handmade road sign—a drawing of a woman raising half her arm, accompanied by the words: "F**k you, not Ukraine." As it turned out, dozens of such signs appeared across the country, both in frontline regions and far from the combat zones.

Together with other fellow citizens, I stand in lines and flee the city, sleep in basements and listen to explosions, build barricades and throw Molotov cocktails, unload humanitarian aid and live in schools, train to shoot and impose tourniquets, liberate cities and bury the dead together, we cry and laugh at the same time.

I came to the Maidan on November 21, 2013, witnessed the bloody crackdown on activists, saw what happened after the shootings of the Heavenly Hundred, and was wounded twice in clashes.