Separation from 4-year-old daughter Alice on Mother’s Day during evacuation from Azovstal Steelworks in Mariupol. It’s the story of Victoria Obidina, a military doctor who treated fighters barricaded in the steelworks until two days ago when she was evacuated from the steelworks that became the stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol.
The story of Victoria and her little girl has surfaced on Ukrainian social networks, where followers are calling for the woman’s release using the hashtag “returnAlissimama”. The capture by military units was reported by the Azov regiment: “Victoria remained in a filtration camp on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic, while yesterday her daughter arrived at her destination in Zaporizhia and was entrusted to a Ukrainian family. . At the moment it is not known where the mother is,” Azov wrote. The doctor is probably at a filtration camp in Mangush now.
Alice and Victoria are not unknown faces, they had appeared in a video showing the refugees in the Azovstal tunnels in recent days, when an agreement had not yet been reached between Moscow, Kyiv and international institutions to evacuate the thousand or so civilians to evacuate the shelters. anti-nuclear agents of the steel mill. In the pictures, the little girl is holding her booklet, a squirrel on the striped sweater, and is answering questions with her eyes downcast: “What do you mean by those who see you? I want to be evacuated. Where are you now? In an air raid shelter? . Do you like it here? I want to go back to my house. Who do you want to greet? My grandmother Sveta.” Then she finally looked up shyly and covered her face with her hands.
The Municipality of Mariupol had intervened on social media by posting the video and a comment: “The Russian world wants to kill Alice at the age of four. She is in Mariupol. For a month and a half her home was an air raid shelter at the Azovstal plant “The mother is a military doctor. She saves the wounded. If she and her daughter are captured, there is no possibility of decent treatment. And what does Alice want? Home! All children are equal . We call on the world community to do this.” Stop genocide and save people”.
Now Alice is safe, but in a home and with a family that is not hers.
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