She had lost her mother two weeks after birth, and a few weeks ago she also lost her father. But, finally, little Kira, 12, was able to hug her grandfather again, who searched for her for a long time and is the only family member she has left. On 11 March, the little girl was […]
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Ukraine, thus the country protects its cultural heritage from war
Almost seventy days of war in Ukraine. Over two months. He continues the offensive in the Donbass and continues the Ukrainian civil, military and political resistance. The resistance of weapons but also of the founding places of Ukrainian culture. Like the Potocki Palace, home of the Borys Voznytsky National Gallery, in Lviv. Right now the […]
Congo, stories from the forgotten conflict
Abijawa is 24 years old and the eyes of a grown woman. Sitting on the ground, she holds her baby on her lap and talks about the war. The one that bleeds her country, there Democratic Republic of Congo for over twenty years. Hundreds of armed groups in the eastern part of the country terrorize […]
Ukraine, Ivan Vavassori is alive
“Ivan is alive, he’s in the hospital”. Pietro Vavassori confirmed that his son was reported missing for a few days in Ukraine. Ivan Vavassori, 30, former footballer, adopted son of Alessandra Sgarellathe entrepreneur kidnapped in 1998 by the ‘Ndrangheta, enlisted weeks ago as a volunteer alongside the Ukrainian army. It was feared that he was […]
Russian mother repudiates son opposed to war in Ukraine: “You are a traitor”
When the Russian military invaded Ukraine, his friends, under the bombs, sent him photos and videos documenting what was happening. Jean-Michel Shcherbak, Russian actor and model in his thirties, horrified, did not hesitate to share on social networks (on Instagram he has almost 27 thousand followers) those dramatic testimoniesand to openly take sides against those […]
Ukraine, an agreement for children on the run is signed in Sicily
Two months of war in Ukraine. Sixty days in which they arrived in Italy alone at least 1,764 children and adolescents fleeing the conflict. This is confirmed by the data from the Ministry of the Interior as of 13 April last. A huge number if for a moment we stop to think that each of […]
Ukraine, Marina arrived in Italy thanks to the Red Cross, maybe she will walk again
Marina is 14 years old and a few months before the outbreak of the war in her country, Ukraine, her life had already been turned upside down. From a trivial accident, as she tells herself. A fall from the second floor of her house that resulted in a spinal injury. Since that day, Marina, big […]
Iryna Guley: “The war took my emotions away”
“We have been through many shocks: the beginning of the war, then bombings, explosions, sirens, the tragedies of Bucha, Mariupol, of the many cities from which we receive shocking news every day. With everything we have been through we have become hard on emotions ». Iryna Guley is a Ukrainian journalist of the television channel […]
The nails, the music and the other ways in which the Russians support Ukraine
Almost everything comes through social media, but the gestures are real. These are the forms of protest that reach us from Russia, they are all gestures of support for Ukraine. The last is a manicure. They are the nails with the yellow and blue colors of the flag Ukraine combined with two other colors: on […]
Ukraine, collecting signatures to help Kira hug her grandfather again
He asked his grandfather for help: “Please, don’t let them take me to Russia.” Kira, a 12-year-old girl, was in her house in Mariupol with the dad Eugene, former captain of the Ukrainian national water polo teamand his partner (her mom died when she was born), when the house was bombed. Kira has fled to […]