Director Katya Tsaryk and The Hardkiss frontwoman Yulia Sanina, along with her husband Val Bebko, are not just industry colleagues. They are godfathers. That is, the level of trust should be maximum. But everything fell apart back in 2021, Ukr.Media reports.
Katya then directed a huge concert for Independence Day. The Hardkiss refused to participate because they chose another project. Work situation? Absolutely.
Tsarik says that she was not triggered by the fact itself. She was affected by the form. Instead of a human phone call, Sanina and Bebko switched to the mode of cold corporate correspondence. They communicated with the godmother purely as with a hired contractor.
“This story dates back to 2021, to Independence Day. I had no questions for them as a band. They had the right to refuse, and I have no resentment for the fact that they refused to participate in the Independence Day concert. I am resentful that in that situation there was a form to provide information as artists and as a friend, when you call and say: “The situation is like this, this is important for us, how can we do it so that no one quarrels.” In that situation, they communicated with me as with a director, not as with a friend,” Tsaryk is direct, explaining the point very well.
And then the second act of this story happened, after February 24, 2022. This is the period when we all massively checked who was writing to whom “how are you?”. Katya stayed in Ukraine. Yulia and Val went abroad. And according to the director, there was complete silence. No check-in. Classic guesting, only at the level of people who were once practically family.
Tsarik summarizes this as bluntly as possible, and it sounds like a diagnosis for many broken relationships in our time:
“I think Yulia and Val don't understand why I'm offended. They probably think it's because of their refusal. The situation here is a little different. Not to mention the fact that when the war started, and during these years, no one asked me, being not in Ukraine, how we were doing here, knowing that we were in Ukraine. Here is a situation where it seems like no one did anything bad to each other, but communication ended,” Katya commented.
It turns out a kind of paradox. You can not quarrel, not throw accusations, but simply shift the tone of the conversation from “friendly” to “working” once, and then simply disappear from the radar. A quiet ending without drama, but with silence for five years.
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