Photo Of Ukrainian Baby With Family Details Written On Her Back Shows How Bad The Situation Is
In the photo shared by Instagram user Sasha Makoviy (@aleksandra.mako) a toddler can be seen with her name, family and contact details written on her back. From the photo, it appears that the toddler, Vira Makoviy is the daughter of Sasha Makoviy, who had posted the image.
A photo has gone viral on social media showing the horrors of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In the photo shared by Instagram user Sasha Makoviy (@aleksandra.mako) a toddler can be seen with her name, family and contact details written on her back.
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A mother's pain
From the photo, it appears that the toddler, Vira Makoviy is the daughter of Sasha Makoviy, who had posted the image.
According to a Google translate version of the caption of her post, Sasha had written this on her daughter's back on the first day of the war.
"I signed it with my hands trembling very much. But why tell you? You already know what it's like to wake up to the deafening and powerful sounds of explosions that can be heard for tens of kilometers. I was shaking for the first hours like you," she wrote.
"In case something happened to us, and someone would pick her up as a survivor. Or if she is lost, which, according to my logic, could only happen with my blackout. Then even a crazy thought flashed through my mind "why didn't I tattoo her with this information?," she wrote.
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In a safer place now
According to her, the family did not have to go through the ordeal she feared and is now in a safer place.
"And I still can't bring myself to put this scrambled paper in the second photo out of my overalls pocket. Although now we are where it is safe," she wrote.
Ukrainian journalist Anastasiia Lapatina who also shared the image on Twitter wrote: "Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas."
Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas. pic.twitter.com/sK26wnBOWj
¡ª Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) April 4, 2022
The war on Ukraine's children
The children of Ukraine are one of the biggest victims of Putin's war on their country.
According to Ukraine officials, at least 165 children have been killed in Russian aggression so far.
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On Monday the United Nations said that more than 4.2 million Ukrainian refugees have now fled the country since the Russian invasion began.
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said 4,215,047 Ukrainians had fled the country since the war began on February 24 ¡ª a figure up 38,646 on the numbers for Sunday.
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According to UNICEF, more than two million children have been forced to flee Ukraine due to the war.
Children make up half of all refugees from the war in Ukraine, according to UNICEF and UNHCR. More than 1.1 million children have arrived in Poland, with hundreds of thousands also arriving in Romania, Moldova, Hungary Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
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