OLIA FREIMUT
Insights from exile...
“DOES Putin kill children, mum?” asked my daughter, who is four. “Yes, honey,” I said. “Then why did God let him be born?” she asked.
Such a grown-up question from a little girl – and one that is too hard to answer. Perhaps, I think, I have been lying to my kids when I’ve told them that good always wins over evil. A tyrant has an uncontrollable power and nothing, it seems, can stop it.
Yuriy Glodan is the father of three-month-old Kira who along with her mother and grandmother died when their apartment in Odessa was shelled. “My world was destroyed by a Russian missile.we were so happy when Kira was born. I can’t believe my daughter and wife are not here anymore.”
Nothing can salveyuriy’s grief. But he sees a message to the world in it. “I hope our story will help end this war.”
Yes, honey, Putin kills
children. Some 263 kids have died, according to the office of the Attorney General. And that is only the official data.
These are occupiers who murder entire families and burn their bodies to hide their crimes.
In Kharkiv, five-month-old Mihasyk died in his father’s arms when Russian troops attacked with howitzers.
Two-year-old Carolina died with her parents under the shelling of Mariupol’s drama theatre.
Twelve-year-old Veronika was trying to escape the shootings in Chernihiv. She tried to run. Her head was torn off. She died in front of her mother.
How can the parents go on after the murders of their children?yes, honey, Putin kills children.the deaths can never be forgotten, forgiven or understood.
But the children’s suffering must make us stronger and give us the power to unite as a world and stop the war.