Roman is a trained violinist who signed up to fight Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. He takes out his violin and plays for half an hour once or twice a week and says music distracts him from the war and the possibility of dying.
Originally published at – https://www.rferl.org/a/music-takes-your-mind-off-war-and-death-ukrainian-violinist-plays-in-the-trenches/31045277.html

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