Ukraine, the story of the girl with the gun and the lollipop of the viral photo

She is holding a rifle and has a lollipop in her mouth, she is sitting on the windowsill of a smoke-blackened house and is clearly at war. It is not a photo taken by chance, it is a posed and deliberate photo, it is a photo of denunciation of the war in Ukraine. The title of the photo is “Girl with Candy” and was taken by the photographer Oleksii Kyrychenko. Immortalize the 9-year-old daughter. He himself said that the weapon was unloaded and that the girl held it in her hand only for the moment of the shot.

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However, this photo is a symbol because it tells that the war in Ukraine affects children before everyone else. The former president of the European Council, the Polish, also tweeted it Donald Tuskwith these words: “Now tell her that heavier sanctions would be too expensive for Europe.”

The war in Ukraine is showing more and more of the children’s drama: on the run (half of the refugees are minors), in hospitals, still in the bellies of mothers. She also saw him on the other side with children arrested in Moscow for bringing anti-war flowers.

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There are several photos in the series posted by the father on Facebook. The photographer wants shares. “It serves to draw attention to the Russian aggression in Ukraine”.

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