Ukraine. Rynok square in Lviv woke up with 109 empty strollers arranged in a row. In the background, the smell of bombing, the smoke of war. This is the denunciation of activists and the mayor of Lviv Andri Sadovy. «They are the symbol of the life of those children who became angels, who now protect the sky above Ukraine, in place of the decided actions of the world. This is the terrible price of the war that Ukraine is paying today, ”Mayor Andri Sadovy wrote on social media. “To adults around the world: protect Ukrainian children and give them a future, asking the governments of other countries to close the sky above Ukraine”.
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Irena knows that square well. It is the one in which she grew up, the same one in which she walked with her son of her until twenty days ago. Today Irena looks at her from her cell phone, in her mother’s house in Rome, together with her 7-year-old son Maxim. “We left Lviv on the first day of the bombing”, says Irena, as she takes a slice of donut for her son. We meet her at a welcome party organized bySalvamamme association in Trastevere. There are bags full of games and basic necessities. There are clowns blowing up balloons, jugglers and a long table laden with sweets, fruit juices and flyers with the useful numbers of the associations that are working to assist women and children arriving from Ukraine.
“I only took a suitcase with my clothes and Maxim’s. Two heavy shirts and a pair of trousers. We have nothing else. We left quickly because I was afraid they would hit our house too at any moment. We went out and saw military planes passing overhead. I took Maxim and we ran away“. Irena arrived twenty kilometers from the border by car. “Men can’t leave the country and so my husband had to go back. We found out at that moment. It was night. Maxim and I found ourselves forced to continue on foot and walked for six hours before reaching the border ».
In Poland, Irena and her son slept one night as guests of friends and the next morning they boarded the bus that took them to Rome. “Here is my mother, now we live with her but our life is not here.” Maxim started school in Rome, Irena is following an Italian course to learn the language but her constant thought is Lviv. “There is the shop where I worked as a manager, there are my loved ones, my friends. Our life”.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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