Tattoo marathon raises money for army as Kyiv begins to reawaken
Every Saturday for the past seven weeks, a tattoo marathon has been inking customers, with funds raised being donated to Ukraine forces who have been fighting Russian troops since Moscow invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
The initiative has raised $9,134, said the man who started it, 34-year-old Sasha Filipchenko, a native of the Crimea peninsula which Russia has occupied since 2014.
“We will keep doing this until the end of the war,” Filipchenko, who has lived in Kyiv for the past five years, told Reuters. “Maybe we will bring it back for victory day.”
On a typical Saturday, 50 to 70 punters get tattoos from a group of 15 artists.
“Why not try?,” 37-year-old Ukrainian-Brazilian tattoo artist Zhylson Buakela said.
“We did it for a week or two and it’s already the seventh week now… As long as we can take some capital and give it to the army, I think it’s the best you can do,” he said.
![Tattoo artist Yulia Timasheva, 18, inks a tattoo of a mythical beast inspired by Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko, at a weekly tattoo marathon held to raise funds for the military.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/ukraine-crisis_tattoos-10.jpg?w=1024)
![Myroslava Arnautova, 18, poses with her first tattoo at a weekly tattoo marathon held to raise funds for the military, amid Russia's invasion, in Podil, Kyiv, Ukraine May 21, 2022.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/ukraine-crisis_tattoos-5.jpg?w=1024)
The tattoo marathon takes place in Kyiv’s trendy Podil district, a pre-war hipster hub which is showing signs of revival.
Myroslava Arnautova, 18, came to get her first ever tattoo. She decided to get a sketch of a bird originally drawn by the 85-year-old Ukrainian artist Lyubov Panchenko, who was killed during fighting in the Kyiv region town of Bucha in April.
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