Olena Shoptenko spoke about her return to Kyiv and recalled how a drone was shot down in front of her eyes

The dancer is still trying to get used to the realities of the capital after living abroad.

Choreographer Olena Shoptenko a week ago she returned to Kyiv from Vienna, where she had lived since the beginning of the full-scale war.

The dancer’s return coincided with constant Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital, so at first Olena felt quite stressed. Moreover, in the first days in Ukraine, a drone was shot down right in front of her in the center of Kyiv.

“Being abroad with my son, living in two realities since the beginning of the war, my brain was very tired. Maybe that’s why, after arriving in Ukraine, the first few days I was in a dumb shock and couldn’t communicate with anyone. I just walked a lot in the streets of Kyiv and breathed in my native air. Immediately after my arrival, missile strikes began, which had not happened for a long time, and which are still going on. It caused alarm, but not fear and panic, which surprised me. Like the drone shot down in the center in front of my eyes.” – Olena shared.

According to Shoptenko, the Ukrainians gave her a new breath of fresh air and inspiration. Watching how they cope with adversity, the dancer herself felt inner strength.

“I felt from people warmth, courtesy, purposefulness, support, tangible inner strength and thirst for life and development, no matter what. This engraved steel rod, in everyone I met, instilled in me a sense of peace and security, in the country , in which it is still dangerous. That’s how interesting it is,” Shoptenko shared.

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