Svitlana Popova looks tired. She tells her story like a text repeated over and over again. This single mother of eight children, four of whom are dependent, says and repeats the things of the war: the terror when, only a month after the Russian attack of February 24, 2022, Russian troops invaded Novokairy, her village on the shore north of the Dnieper, one hour east of Kherson. How we had to survive, alone and unemployed, with so many mouths to feed. Queuing to bring back supplies from Vladimir Putin’s occupying army. The fear of missing out. The fear of dying. The fear of betraying too.
Svitlana keeps repeating it: she is a Ukrainian patriot. She never flinched when the military came knocking on her door to serve her their propaganda. So when, one day in October 2022, her 15-year-old daughter came panicking and rushed her
Source : Nouvelobs
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