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By way of continuing the interview of a year ago, which ended with these words from Father Ihor Rantsya, Vicar of the Ukrainian Cathedral of Saint Vladimir the Great in Paris:
Art is involved in all this. Our prayer, the Byzantine prayer, is always a sort of art. There are always Icons, and that is an art – painting. There is also the art of singing – religious hymns, and often these two kinds of art accompany our soldiers. They carry the Icon before them, and they have those melodies in their heads. It is a spiritual method of resistance. We need to mention and speak of the consciousness of our soldiers, of our people: they are on their own territory, to protect it. It seems to me that art always accompanies the spirituality of Ukrainians.