The ‘little girl with candy’ goes around the world. A photo of a 9-year-old Ukrainian girl, a lollipop in her mouth, a double-barreled shotgun in her hands.
Sitting on the windowsill of a building shaken by Russian fire: a symbol of childhood denied in the country invaded by Moscow, but with an expression of defiance, not terror, as if to tell the pride of the Ukrainian people even at such an early age .
The photo, taken by the girl’s father, Oleksii Kyrychenko, and posted on facebook under the title ‘Girl with candy’ precisely to “bring the world’s attention to Russian aggression”, bounces on social media after it was taken up by Donald Tusk , former president of the European Council.
“Please don’t tell her that tougher sanctions would be too expensive for Europe!” is the message with which the Polish politician accompanies his post, referring to the fears of some economic sectors for an escalation of sanctions.
Brown hair braided with a ribbon that has the red-blue colors of the Ukrainian flag, the right leg stretched along the sill and the gaze turned outward, like a soldier on guard, a soldier of only 9 years who does not he seems quite terrified. Although ‘built’, the photo is so strong that it becomes ‘viral’ in a few hours. The retweets of Tusk’s post alone are close to 5,000, on facebook dad Oleksii exceeds 200 shares. A photo-icon of the tragedy of children, displaced persons, deprived of school, killed by bombing, even struck at birth in pediatric hospitals such as in Mariupol, and of a resistance that does not intend to bend.
Source: Ansa
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