The moving video of the cellist playing among the rubble in Kharkiv to raise awareness

“My name is Denys Karachevtsev, I am a cellist and a citizen of Kharkiv.” So begins the introductory message that young musician Denys Karachevtsev spread on social media to accompany a video where he is seen in his city, Kharkiv, playing the cello among the buildings destroyed by Russian bombing. The purpose of the initiative is to raise awareness in order to raise funds for humanitarian purposes and to initiate the reconstruction of damaged architecture.

“I love my heroic city that is now struggling to survive the war,” Karachevtsev writes. “I deeply believe that we can help it. I believe that we can restore and rebuild our city and our country when the war ends. I am launching my project in the streets of Kharkiv to raise funds for humanitarian purposes and for the restoration of the city’s architecture. Let’s unite to make our city live together again!” Karachevtsev’s video, shot by photographer Oleksandr Osipov, has already toured the world and has been published by countless newspapers around the globe.

Karachevtsev was born 30 years ago in Kharkiv, studied music in Kiev and played in several orchestras around the world. After the war began, he decided to stay in Kharkiv with the idea of making a contribution in his own way to the Ukrainian cause. While waiting for the conflict to end, however, it is already possible to help. For now, there are no collections for reconstruction yet, because the urgency is to help those who are suffering under the shelling, so Karachevtsev circulated the web address of Kharkiv Help, an organization of local volunteers who collect food and medicine for people and animals in Kharkiv and buy clothes for soldiers and all those engaged in defending the city. And in the coming days Karachevtsev’s cello will probably continue to resonate in the streets of the large Ukrainian city.

The moving video of the cellist playing among the rubble in Kharkiv to raise awareness

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