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Bullets were still ripping into the car when Diana Yemelyanova rolled out and crawled to the grassy kerb. She saw her mother, Irina, hit in the stomach. I wanted to bandage mum, so I lifted her jacket, Yemelyanova, 20, told The Times. And her whole side was torn up, her guts fell out. There was nothing to bandage.
They tried to crawl to safety under a hail of fire, but Irina couldnt make it. Reaching sparse cover by the side of the road, the student called back to her mother. I love you very, very much, Irina gasped in reply. Then she fell silent.
Yemelyanovas husband, Oleksandr, grabbed his wifes hand and dragged her away. Back in the car, his 15-year-old brother was lying motionless, blood running from his mouth and a fist-sized hole in his back. The family had run into three Russian tanks as they tried on March 9 to escape their home town of Chernihiv, a city of 285,000 people besieged by Kremlin forces since the start of the invasion more than a month ago. As one tank bore down on their shot-up vehicle, Yemelyanova and her husband had to sprint across an open field to escape. I still dont know how we broke away from them, she said. We must have been helped by areas of bog, some were waist-deep.
Reaching the next field, she looked down at her foot and found she was missing two toes. Somehow, she kept going for three kilometres. I was in shock, I dont know how else to describe it. They ran to the nearest Ukrainian position. I didnt feel the pain, it was like a dream. Only when I realised we were safe, it all hit me. Its a catastrophe. I didnt know and I still dont know how to live without my mama
Chernihiv was beautiful, she said of her home town, which is more than 1,300 years old. Elaborate golden-domed monasteries and churches with green slate roofs, echoing with the song of Orthodox prayer, used to bring in thousands of tourists every year. Its a historic city, we have more than 15 churches and historical monuments. Now it is being levelled. Forty per cent of our houses have already been reduced to dust.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cc7d0e2c-aec5-11ec-8b8c-0207c0fd6104?shareToken=da3f2a28e263dc81ffdc733cfcf2b264
They tried to crawl to safety under a hail of fire, but Irina couldnt make it. Reaching sparse cover by the side of the road, the student called back to her mother. I love you very, very much, Irina gasped in reply. Then she fell silent.
Yemelyanovas husband, Oleksandr, grabbed his wifes hand and dragged her away. Back in the car, his 15-year-old brother was lying motionless, blood running from his mouth and a fist-sized hole in his back. The family had run into three Russian tanks as they tried on March 9 to escape their home town of Chernihiv, a city of 285,000 people besieged by Kremlin forces since the start of the invasion more than a month ago. As one tank bore down on their shot-up vehicle, Yemelyanova and her husband had to sprint across an open field to escape. I still dont know how we broke away from them, she said. We must have been helped by areas of bog, some were waist-deep.
Reaching the next field, she looked down at her foot and found she was missing two toes. Somehow, she kept going for three kilometres. I was in shock, I dont know how else to describe it. They ran to the nearest Ukrainian position. I didnt feel the pain, it was like a dream. Only when I realised we were safe, it all hit me. Its a catastrophe. I didnt know and I still dont know how to live without my mama
Chernihiv was beautiful, she said of her home town, which is more than 1,300 years old. Elaborate golden-domed monasteries and churches with green slate roofs, echoing with the song of Orthodox prayer, used to bring in thousands of tourists every year. Its a historic city, we have more than 15 churches and historical monuments. Now it is being levelled. Forty per cent of our houses have already been reduced to dust.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cc7d0e2c-aec5-11ec-8b8c-0207c0fd6104?shareToken=da3f2a28e263dc81ffdc733cfcf2b264
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I lost my mother and my toes but I kept running (Original Post)
BeyondGeography
Mar 2022
OP
"But aren't you concerned Putin will do something worse if you say that?" sez the hack journalist...
Hekate
Mar 2022
#4
"We can't antagonize him! It could make him angry!!" sez my idiot coworker. nt
Torchlight
Mar 2022
#9
Carlitos Brigante
(26,746 posts)1. K & Fuckin' R nt
dchill
(40,146 posts)2. This man cannot be allowed to stay in power.
Just sayin'.
brer cat
(26,033 posts)3. It cannot be said enough.
He has to go.
Hekate
(94,218 posts)4. "But aren't you concerned Putin will do something worse if you say that?" sez the hack journalist...
to President Biden.
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
dchill
(40,146 posts)5. He has already given himself the "right" to use...
... chemical weapons in Ukraine. What makes anybody think he won't use anything else? Regardless of what NATO does... or doesn't do.
Hekate
(94,218 posts)6. Exactly my point
Torchlight
(4,234 posts)9. "We can't antagonize him! It could make him angry!!" sez my idiot coworker. nt
Blue Owl
(54,423 posts)7. If you passively support Putin....
If you choose to criticize those who say he must be removed from power
.
Then FUCK YOU.
You are enabling the monster who tore this womans family and foot apart she is lucky to have escaped she was this close to being a casualty of Putins bloodbath.
If you vote for the GOP, you vote for Putin.
calimary
(83,904 posts)12. Absolutely THIS!
Duppers
(28,223 posts)13. Bravo !!
MustLoveBeagles
(12,376 posts)14. This
MontanaMama
(23,952 posts)10. Putin cannot remain in power.
I said it and so did my President. Not walking it back either.
niyad
(119,182 posts)11. Heartsick KNR