The Kremlin marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by trotting out children from the devastated city of Mariupol during a Moscow propaganda concert so the kids could …
But it was also the Russians who left the children motherless – their mom, a blogger named Olga, was killed by shrapnel from an April 2022 explosion while she ran out for cigarettes, The Guardian reported. She was buried near a hospital.
Russian children huddle around Yuri Gagarin, a Russian soldier, to “thank” him for saving them from Mariupol.Anna Naumenko, a black haired 15-year-old girl who was sent onstage to thank the Russian invaders during a propaganda concert last week in Moscow.Former neighbors from Mariupol were shocked and disgusted at the twisted display of Russian patriotism, which featured a group of Ukrainian kids hugging the soldier.
He pointed out one child, a boy named Kostya, and said they’d spent the first month of the war living in the same shelter. The former resident reportedly stepped over dead bodies with Kostya’s father when they searched a bread factory for food and brought water back from a pump. Bombs killed or wounded eight neighbors across the street, she said. And food was so rare that she and three others were forced to share a single chocolate bar – it was the only thing they ate in days, the outlet said.
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