Confession of the woman who lives in Tirana: Ukraine does not forgive Putin's killing of children

Russian missile attack on Monday morning (21.03) on military training grounds in the town of Rivne, Western Ukraine, brought Irina Romanova to Tirana, difficult hours of anxiety, fear and hope. Rivne is home to her mother, who has decided to stay there, even at the cost of life. The Russian missiles fell several miles away from my mother's home area, the Irina I called, as soon as you read the news of the Russian missile attack in her hometown.

Just a week ago in Rivne, about 160 km of bordering Poland, 20 civilians were killed and the Russian missiles destroyed the local TV tower, built 55 years ago.

Life of People and Children Blowed Up

Irina experiences war in her homeland more by talking to her mother and relatives in her homeland than by TV news and chronics.

Vulnerability, human life and children blown up by shellings, destroyed infrastructure, mass graves, residences, ruined hospital schools. Women and children who walk out of their sight to save lives. But my mother won't leave. When I tell him to come to Tirana, he answers that I don't leave my country and my people in this terrible war and crisis” says Irina for DW.

According to UN data since the beginning of Russian aggression, last month on February 24th, and so far around 12 million people and 2 million within Ukraine have been bombed by 43 health care facilities.

The Russian aggression has brought us together against Putin. We are all on the battlefield, regardless of our social position. We are a nation that has not attacked anyone who has protected his land to the very end of the blood. There are two different things: hand over the city and conquer it. We never forgive Puti's murder of Ukraine's children. We have fought against Nazism, now we fight Putin. Kiev, even if it falls, will never be occupied” says of DW, Irina Romanova.

Irina, 35, has completed her studies in Ukraine for environmental engineers. The scholarship he won for qualifications in Scotland changed his life. There he falls in love with a boy from Albania, marries and decides to live and work in Tirana, where he has been living for 11 years now.

Russia historically genocide against Ukraine,

With a clear Albanian, Irina tells the DW of her family's history in Ukraine.

“Vis from a family that has survived the persecution of the communist regime. My grandfather was Russian and my grandmother was from Ukraine. Grandpa, born in the outskirts of Moscow, fought against the Nazi occupation in World War II, was severely injured and lost sight. But in the days of Stalin and the Communist dictators who followed him, my father's family was persecuted on the charge that he had cooperated with the Nazis, since my Gypsy grandmother was alive! ”

Irina stresses that “Russia has historically intended to invade and keep Ukraine under control. In the time of the former Soviet Union, Ukrainians were treated as second-class citizens and denied national identity. Just on the verge of aggression Putin declared that “Ukraine has never had its authentic nationality. ”

When wheat production fell in 1932 in the former Soviet Union because of collectiveization, which caused the deep famine crisis, 1932-1933, four million ethnic Ukrainians died of starvation. The extermination crisis in Ukraine was hidden from Stalin and those who came after him for 90 years. Just three years ago, in 2019, she was recognised by 16 countries, the U.S.A. and the Vatican as <x0). / DW/Ukraina doesn't give Putin the killing of Ukrainian children does not give Putin children's murder