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Oleksandra Kostetska, widow of a fallen Ukrainian soldier Kostyantyn Miroshnichenko, did a photoshoot with the same photographer who took their pictures as a couple.
"I will show you my new reality. As a widow. Igor Yefimov, you started photographing us as a couple at the beginning of our relationship, now you have taken the end for me. Mirosh [Kostyantyn's military call sign] taught me a lot, now the last lesson is to live without him and remain strong. But it's hard without his warmth/smile/laughter/hugs/bedtime talks, and my favorite, running my fingers across his cheeks and stroking his beard. I love, but now I am not loved".
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I recommend reading the entire letter, but here are a couple excerpts:
From UNITED24Media:
Will never forget how long the 2-metre walk from my bed to the window in the morning of 24.02.2022 felt as I was desperately trying to persuade myself that the booming, earth-shaking sound was just an unusually vicious thunder, and simultaneously thinking 'what if I pull the curtains open and there is no rain?' I pulled the curtains open, and there was no rain. No thunder clouds. Just the faces of neighbours also woken up by the missile explosions looking out of the window. That's when I understood that the war began.
Here's a reminder that Ukraine still needs donations badly to fight off the invasion.
United 24 and Come Back Alive are both verified charities that support the Ukrainian military. They offer various options, for example, collecting money for medical equipment, humanitarian demining and rebuilding Ukraine if someone doesn't feel comfortable donating towards weapons.
Today is the Orthodox Easter, so I wish happy holidays to everyone celebrating! Unfortunately, russia keeps shelling and sending missiles and drones all over Ukraine, trying to kill as many civilians as possible before the 9th of May. As Europe spends the 8th of May remembering all victims of the WW2, russia has turned the 9th of May into a huge twisted celebration of "victory", even claiming that they can repeat the tragedies if they choose to. Parades, demonstrations and parties are held on that day, turning the horrifying war into the celebration of weaponry and violence. You can guess why russians are trying to kill as many Ukrainians as possible before that date, to show off their violence not only to themselves but to the whole world, reminding everyone that they do have the strength to cause tragedies without being punished for it.
Today we went to the church, even though we are not a religious family. It's a tradition to go to church in the early morning and get splashed in our faces with holy water by a priest. We bake Easter cakes, named "paskas", paint eggs, named "krashankas" or "pysankas", and take these delicious treats, plus other food, in decorated baskets to the church. There everything gets splashed with holy water and everyone happily returns home to celebrate! We meet up with our relatives every year, so for the preparation we have to clean our apartment, cook various dishes and prepare the cakes.
This plus exams plus going to the hospital after university to get vitamin shots to deal with mental illness, is probably the reason why I got weak in my health. We have been warned to expect big air raids in the next few days, and I have been unlucky to catch a virus and fall apart in the middle of the celebration with a 38.8 degree fever. I dread to get a message telling us about russian missile carrying planes getting off. I would have to go to the cold subway with fever, which is a fate better than worrying about the missile danger at home and hearing explosions outside my window. Horrifying how our lives turned into this. But I am thankful to be alive
The War in Ukraine didn’t “magically go away”
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Here’s your daily reminder that the war in Ukraine is STILL GOING ON, and hasn’t stopped. And that people are being KILLED. Our own family lost family friends on the frontlines.
russia has been trying to exterminate Ukrainians for centuries. All the Czar’s suppression, the Soviets making a man-made famine that killed MILLIONS - Holodomor, the start of the war in 2014..
But now on the cusp of life and death of a nation, culture, and people, everyone is ignoring us because Israel is throwing a tantrum with the United States to back it. America just forgot about Ukraine as soon as their poor poor Israel needed some help smashing 'the worthless arabs' to make more room for 'the good christians/jews'.
The Palestine situation is very bad but can we not ignore the bloody conflict in my home country that has been going on since 2014, with full our war for over two years? I’ve met some people who didn’t know it was still going on, and it really broke me.
Just a few weeks ago my mom got a call that one of her oldest colleagues, a surgeon working on the front lines, had been killed by the russians. She was crying so hard. And then I meet people who don’t know the war is still going on and I want to scream.
Please don’t let this die. Please don’t forget us. We need your support.
Слава Україні, Героїв слава. (Slava Ukrayini, Heroyim slava)
Glory to Ukraine, glory to the Heroes.