A truce at any price is impossible, Ukrainian widows say
“Just say thank you” is what many Ukrainians have already heard from occupying Russian soldiers. Svitlana Poltavska says this is what Russian soldiers told her as they came to her house amid beatings and searches: “Say thank you we are not touching your children. Yet.”
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“Just say thank you” is what many Ukrainians have already heard from occupying Russian soldiers. Svitlana Poltavska says this is what Russian soldiers told her as they came to her house amid beatings and searches: “Say thank you we are not touching your children. Yet.”
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/03/05/a-truce-at-any-price-is-impossible-ukrainian-widows-say
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00:00These women are getting together every weekend in an art space for the project
00:05She's Alive. But it is not their love to art which unites them, it is their loss.
00:11All of them lost their loved men in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:30Svetlana lost her husband in early days of the invasion and stayed under Russian occupation
00:59for months with two small children.
01:29They tried to take the children away, but there was a search.
01:36They heard everything, but they didn't see anything.
01:41No, it is impossible to reconcile for any price, because the price is already set.
01:46The price is the life of our men, the life of our sons.
01:50There will never be forgiveness. I always say that it was not us who came to them,
01:54they came to our house and began to kill us at home.
01:58Vita Kharchuk is drawing her son, the defender of Mariupol, and she says all that's left is his dreams.
02:28These women have paid the highest price, and their loss cannot be forgotten now for a ceasefire at any price, they say.