(ANSA) – ANCONA, APRIL 25 – “What does ‘liberation’ mean for us? It means having the opportunity to say what we want, to live as we want, to speak our language, to have our identity that Russia wants to take away from us. Below the Soviet Union Ukrainian books were forbidden in schools and in the country it was possible to speak only in Russian: we don’t want to go back to that historical phase, we want our culture “. She tells ANSA Yevheniia Stoianova, a 22-year-old Ukrainian, who lives in Ancona where she is attending a master’s degree at the Marche Polytechnic University. A reflection, her, that comes on the day in which in Italy the liberation of the country from Nazi-fascism is remembered.
“There is no such party here, but I think it is important to know history in order to understand what happened and not to make the mistakes of the past: a lesson that Russia should learn” observes the student.
“I hope that the war in Ukraine will end soon – he adds – it will take some time, but I am sure we will win, because our people do not agree to return to Russian control, we want our identity and we will not give in”.
Meanwhile, for the young woman’s family, the Orthodox Easter just passed was sad due to the conflict. Her parents live in Voznesensk, a city in the south of the country, 80 kilometers from Mykolaiv, where the bombings are happening relentlessly. “My family is afraid – she explains – the bombings are daily and they are especially afraid of the missiles that in recent days have also flown over the nuclear power plant.
The siren sounds three or four times a night, but they no longer sleep in the bunker because it is not life there, they have arranged to sleep in the corridor of the house, the safest part of the house. In the meantime – he concludes – they hope that all this will end soon “. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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