A charity exhibition of paintings by volunteer and artist Diana Podolianchuk was organised as part of the “People for the Future” project of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, aimed at supporting the children of captured, missing and deceased defenders.
The initiative, supported by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, involves a series of charity exhibitions of paintings by the artist.
Diana Podolianchuk’s thematic exhibition includes 33 works created during the period of the full-scale russian invasion.
The artworks will be exhibited in different cities of Ukraine, including in the regional offices of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
Each painting has a QR code that will help visitors to the exhibition make a charitable donation to the educational and motivational programme to support Ukrainian children, whose parents were killed in action with the russian occupiers or are in enemy captivity.
Among the presented works, the series of paintings dedicated to the DIU Special Forces units ‘Kraken’, ‘Artan’, ‘Shaman’, ‘Tymur’ and ‘Legion’ are noteworthy.
“In many ways, I was inspired by our special forces,” said Diana Podolianchuk, whose foundation provided aid to the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine for about UAH 20 million in 2023.
During the presentation of the exhibition in Kyiv, Special Forces intelligence personnel expressed their gratitude to the volunteer for her help and left their signatures on the paintings, which will later be auctioned off at a charity auction.
“Behind each of this picture is an important component of further action: the mobilising society to help the Ukrainian army, raising the issue of protecting our prisoners of war, raising the issue of the rank and heroism of the DIU Special Forces,” Andrii Yusov, a representative of Ukraine’s military intelligence noted.
The charity exhibition of Diana Podolianchuk’s paintings for the “People of the Future” project will be open in Lviv on December 15, 2023, at the Palace of Arts.