Natisa sings song of hope after horror of fleeing war-torn Kyiv with young son

A UKRAINIAN pop singer is releasing a single about her harrowing experience fleeing Kyiv with her young son. 

- Jaymi McCann

Natisa Gogol, 34, who is now working with the same team as Julian Lennon, says her song, A Wind of Hope, is about believing in “better things”. 

Her life was shattered when she awoke on February 24, the day Russia invaded, to the sound of rockets and explosions, and knew instantly that she had to get her son Platon, then seven, out of the country.

She collected the barest of essentials and left shortly before a shell landed nearby, smashing every window in her home and destroying her neighbourhood.

The mother and son survived the long and difficult journey to the Polish border before settling in Prague.