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After years of struggling to make a living as musicians in Ukraine, Yevgen Dovbysh and Anna Vikhrova felt they had finally built a stable life. They were husband-and-wife artists in the Odesa Philharmonic he plays the cello, she the violin sharing a love for Bach partitas and the music from Star Wars. They lived in an apartment on the banks of the Black Sea with their eight-year-old daughter, Daryna.
“I don’t have a gun, but I have my cello,” a musician says as he joins the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, which is made up of refugees who fled the war and artists who stayed behind.
particular conversation a lot more lately. i just moved two days ago. three days ago. a lot more russians coming in. yeah. and why are people leaving? why are they leaving? because they re scared. reporter: we met about a half dozen such people here but one stood out. alisa kuznetsova left russia with her husband just a few days after the war began. you couldn t take it anymore after this invasion. yes. it was, like, additional trigger. i just had to leave. reporter: the 33-year-old has long been a member of russia s opposition in favor of democracy, she says, not putin. this is her being arrested in 2016 while she was working as an independent poll watcher in her hometown in russia. she says pro-putin authorities accused her of vague elections violations and held her in detention until voting ended. but the invasion was the final straw. she could no longer live in russia. now in georgia, she wants everyone to know what side she s