Alex Lidagovsky, a Ukrainian sculptor who fled to UK when his studio was destroyed, has been granted membership into the prestigious Royal Society of British Artists. The 63-year-old artist left Kyiv with his wife, Dasha Nepochatova, 16-year-old stepdaughter and his pets, following Putin’s announcement of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022. In an interview with the PA news agency, Lidagovsky, now settled in London, revealed that his friends had sent him images of his bombed studio. “Now, because I’m so far away from my country and it looks like I live another life, I try not to think abo…