my name is yaroslav semenenko.slav semenenko is one of four heroes of the play, mariupol, war diaries and the tree of life. he is a paralympian. at the age of 9, he suffered a serious electric shock, as a result of which he lost both hands. yaroslav and his wife spent three weeks in occupied mariupol, practically without water and food under shelling and bombing. his memories were included in the script of the play written by the american theater director virlyana tkach. the work began after virlyana's meeting with the author of the war diaries project and cultural activist daria kolomiets. she told me that she had several diaries from mariupol, because i was just interested in that, she brought them to me and we started translating them. it's been a year since our city was shot. while working on the performance, virlyana, based on eyewitnesses' accounts, began stringing poems by serhiy zhadan, as well as by victoria amelino and the poetess who died in kramatorsk as a result of a russian rocket attack. the performa