Zinaida Korneva, a charming 97-year-old Russian veteran of World War II, has a message for her American comrades. 'Support your doctors.'
with a walker around his garden in Bedfordshire last month to raise money for the United Kingdom's National Health Service. The former soldier raised more than 30 million British pounds for health care workers on the front lines of his country's virus outbreak.
"Hello Tom. I learned about your story. You are a strong person and a real soldier," she said in the clip posted to YouTube."Together, we defeated fascism in 1945, and now, together, we are fighting this virus." Retired British Army Captain Tom Moore, 99, poses as he continued to raise money for health workers, by attempting to walk the length of his garden one hundred times before his 100th birthday this month, Marston Moretaine, Britain, April 15, 2020.
Zinaida Korneva is pictured in a photo taken when she was serving in the Soviet Union's anti-aircraft forces during World War II.
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