As an aspiring singer, Kseniia regularly performed with a cover band at a pub near her home in Kyiv in 2011. One night she spotted Andriy, who had come to enjoy a drink and check out the live music. “I knew one of the members of the band,” he says. “After the gig, we were all invited back to her house for an after party.” It was there that he and Kseniia got chatting.
“I discovered he worked for an IT distribution company,” she says. “We started talking about religion and politics. I think I wanted to show off how smart I was.” Andriy noticed she had a great energy. “I admired how passionate she was,” he says. Although they hit it off, they were both in relationships at the time. “There was nothing romantic between us then,” she says.
