At this current point in time, your main focus will be to become really strong and skilled. You need to put a lot of hours daily (about 4-to-8) and start building projects in a consistent manner.
Not just rendering cool pictures, but do actual problem solving and research, showing the process. etc… (good to study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fPq1AF7v0E)
By the time 1 year passes and is 2024 you might have great mass of work to display and post online and figure out how to proceed.
Perhaps you might consider that getting employed might work as well (especially in Kiev, I see there are great companies, even Ubisoft – however this is a requirement to move on-site – which is a challenge if your are not from the area), or continouing as a freelancer.
The point is that if you are a freelancer, you are director + businessman + artist at the same time, so you have a lot of saying and you can control everything you do and how you work and in which projects you are interested to participate in. You have the benefit to declining job uninteresting offers, is not always expecting to work).
So as you can see working as a freelancer, is a very open-ended subject, you can do everything and nothing at the same time. Everything depends on some good people who are willing to pay you some money for some purpose.
So either you have an order to fulfill, a patreon to fund your project, an asset store link, an NFT, or you make Youtube tutorials, etc, etc… Everything goes in but still is a matter of chance, nobody knows what is going to happen.