For two weeks Kharkiv’s Vera Lytochenko has been raising the spirits of her 11 bomb-shelter mates – and of 40,000 others listening on social media
A gentle tune from a violin played by a musician who has been called Ukraine’s “cellar violinist” is a lullaby for a child sheltered in the dark basement of an block of flats in the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Vera Lytochenko has become an internet icon of resilience as images of the concert violinist playing in the basement bomb shelter have inspired an international audience via social media.
