Posted on 08/28/2022 1:20:40 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Four-year-old Elizaveta Dmytrieva grinned as she pushed her stroller along the street in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. It was nearly five months into the war, but the city where her family had fled from Kyiv seemed safe enough. Her mother took an Instagram video as “Liza,” who was born with Down syndrome, led the way in a moment of delighted independence.
Barely an hour later, the little girl was dead, her mother severely injured. And the image of her black and pink stroller, flipped on its side and spattered with blood, would become symbolic of the gruesome toll Russia’s invasion has inflicted on even the youngest Ukrainians.
What Iryna Dmytrieva remembers, reliving the horror of that July morning in her first interview since leaving the hospital, is a deafening noise overhead that she thought was a plane. She looked up to see a “massive” missile and immediately crouched down to try to shield her child.
“There wasn’t time to do anything,” Iryna told The Washington Post. “It was over in a flash.”
As her injuries slowly heal, she keeps replaying those final moments with Liza. The two were going from one appointment to another, and Iryna is thankful she had securely strapped her daughter into the stroller at that point because they were rushing. Otherwise, she says, “Who knows where she would have ended up?”
Her decision meant the family had an intact body they could grieve and bury — unlike the many other bodies blown apart that day.
“She was my life,” Iryna said of Liza. “What Russia took from me cannot be forgiven. All my plans are destroyed.”
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THIS is what the Putinistas around here are supporting...
All the earmarks of another of your transparently sleazy false flags.
Now show the myriad Russian Ukrainian children who were killed by the Ukrainian militias who bombed and shot them in the Donbas for 8 years. The pics are available, if you cared to look for them instead of promoting the globalists’ side of this tragedy.
The fact is that this is Biden’s War. He’s fully responsible for it.
For all your globalist warmongering needs, turn to George Soros. (also sponsored by Pfizer)
*MAGA First/Anti-War/Anti-Globalist Ping*
If you want on or off this list, please let me know.
Was anticipating a Chicago drive-by as I read through the headline.
+1
Its amazing that every FReeper cannot say that it is wrong to invade neighboring countries for expansion.
Used to be people on FreeRepublic disdained propaganda and made an effort not to disseminate fake news. Even if this story was true it’s an appeal to emotion, your less sophisticated “brain”, and serves only to gin up hatred against one side. Baby milk factories and empty incubators make me think this is just more bs.
You run out of propaganda today? This story didn’t get enough attention a few weeks ago?
-Putin’s Russia attacked and annexed Chechnya.
-Putin’s Russia attacked and annexed Georgia.
-Putin’s Russia attacked and annexed Crimea.
-Putin’s Russia attacked and is attempting to annex Ukraine.
-Putin’s Russia attacked and annexed Donetsk.
-Putin’s Russia attacked and annexed Lugansk.
Putin’s Russia says Moldova comes after Ukraine, followed by the Baltic nations.
Putin is a madman committed to restoring the fallen Russian empire.
We know for a fact its not the Nazi filled Nazi Regime in Ukraine that is doing any ‘saving’ or ‘rescuing’ of Ukraine or Ukrainians given how they killing their own citizens Nazi style.
Don’t be afraid of the truth cause it will set you Nazi supporting idiots free.
‘Ukraine War Perspective: Journalist John Mark Dougan’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAinEFF9f5M&t=132s
‘I took a LIBERAL, ANTI WAR Protester to see the truth in Donbass, and THIS Happened!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OysQ7yQl_o
Tribunals are coming and the truth will be revealed about this Ukrainian Nazi regime. Bet.
amazing that every FReeper cannot say that it is wrong to invade neighboring countries for expansion.
Well we now have freepers who support north korea, iran and china. This place is like DU with outdated graphics.
They know. They don't care. To too many on the right, the U.S. and rest of the world just froze when Biden took over. Any rationalization to justify standing still until the next Republican Messiah is in the White House works for them.
Interesting that the Washington Compost Prog Socialist Democrat Party Propaganda Arm couldn’t find any children in the 14,000 Russians that the Uke Nazis murdered in Donetsk since the 2014 Maidan Coup.
Because maybe there aren’t any, Comrade Patriot?
war is horrible, but so are the streets of our major cities where weekend shooting sprees kill and wound dozens of innocents constantly - there is never a truce.
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