Russian Shelling Halts Ukrainian Evacuation Effort 3/18/2022.
A video of a Ukrainian girl in a bomb shelter has gone viral after viewers were moved
by her rendition of the song “Let it Go” from Disney’s popular animated film, Frozen.
The video has been viewed over 3 million times on Twitter and showed the young
girl singing the Ukrainian version to a group of families sheltering from danger.
The person recording the performance also filmed the reactions of the other people around the room. Those in the bunker can be seen smiling and recording the girl’s singing for themselves.
The video was first posted on March 3 on Facebook by Marta Smekhova, according
to a Mail Online report. In her Facebook post, Smekhova detailed her encounter with
the girl singing in the Kyiv bomb shelter.
She said that the name of the girl singing was Amelia and she had dreams of singing to large audiences on a big stage.
побачивши в одному з київських бомбосховищ, як діти малюють яскраві малюнки у напівтемряві, я, звичайно, не змогла мовчки пройти повз… зупинилася,…
Smekhova wrote in the Facebook post, according to a Google Translate.
“Seeing in one of the Kyiv bomb [shelters], how children draw bright pictures in half-darkness, I of course, couldn’t silently pass by…,”
“[I] stopped, praised, offered to do a little exhibition to somehow decorate this not so happy place.”
Smekhova said that as she spoke to the children in the shelter, Amelia was particularly talkative and said she loved to sing.
Smekhova encouraged Amelia to perform to those in the shelter despite the loudness of the room.
“Everyone put their business aside and listened to a song by this girl who was just
beaming light,” she wrote in the post.
“Video made with the permission of the girl’s mother, [I] promised that many people will see [them], Amelia really wanted this.
“I showed this video to people in different cities of Ukraine, it was seen
by foreigners in different parts of the world. Amelia, your singing left no one indifferent.”
She closed her message with a plea to the Russians to reconsider their invasion of their country.
“Look, Russians, against whom you are fighting. Only a coward can fight against civilians. [Taking] away childhood from defenseless children,” she wrote.
The video has been overwhelmingly praised online by social media users since it began
to go viral. Actress Idina Menzel, who played Elsa, the character who performs the song in the film Frozen, also acknowledged Amelia’s efforts.
“We see you, we really, really see you,” Menzel wrote on her Twitter page.
(1) Idina Menzel on Twitter: “We see you. We really, really see you. ” / Twitter
Other social media users noted how moving the performance was despite the difficult situation facing Ukrainians.
“The gut-wrenching visuals of children hiding in bomb shelters is all too similar
to us here in Israel. Watch this little Ukrainian girl singing “Let it go” in a shelter,”
Jerusalem Post journalist Emily Schrader tweeted.
(2) Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר on Twitter: #Ukraine️ #CloseTheSkyUkraine https://t.co/8BlZCqXO6S” / Twitter
“A video of a Ukrainian little girl singing “Let it go” in a shelter is shared by millions today,” comic book creator Badiucao tweeted. “It’s sad, beautiful, and also inspiring hope. I used the footage to make an image to show the whole shelter.”
(3) 巴丢草 Badiucao on Twitter: “1. A video of an Ukrainian little girl singing “Let it go”
in a shelter is shared by millions today. Its sad, beautiful and also inspiring HOPE. I used the footage to make a image to show the whole shelter. The video is in the following thread. #StandWithUkraine️ https://t.co/B9gEEHS9R5″ / Twitter
“#WarDay 12.” The courage of the children in the shelters is mind-blowing.
Let it go lyrics inspire the whole shelter. I’m in tears at the unfairness,”
Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko wrote on twitter.
(4) Lesia Vasylenko on Twitter: “#WarDay #12 The courage of the children in the shelters is mind blowing. Let it go lyrics inspire the whole shelter. I’m in tearsat the unfairness. https://t.co/pmSm6sqFGG” / Twitter
Fighting in Kyiv is raging on and the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said he expects
support from countries all around the world. He insisted Ukraine does not want to
go back to the USSR and said Ukraine would continue to fight Russia for the
“Whole modern world.”
Related video: ‘They’re arriving with nothing,’ Ukrainian refugees pour into Poland
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NBC News reporter Ellison Barber was briefly interrupted by a sweet Ukrainian child while filming a segment about life in refugee camps. Barber — who is on location in Poland — was reporting about the current Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her Sunday Focus segment highlighted the 1.5 million refugees who have left loved ones behind after fleeing to neighboring countries like Poland, Hungary, and Romania for safety.
“We’ve spoken to some people here today who told us they left now because they were trying to really wait until the very last minute,” Barber said in a clip that also aired on MSNBC. “They did not want to go.”
She explained, “But then, as they talked to their family members, friends outside of Ukraine, they convinced them to take their children and come somewhere safe to Poland until they can go back.”
The camera then panned to refugees gathering necessities from tents. There were also boxes full of food and other supplies on the ground. Barber said that the Polish government has organized some of the support but many volunteers are responsible for refugees receiving help.
As she reported what the Polish government asked volunteers to send, a young girl stepped into the camera frame. “This is one of our friends we’ve been playing soccer
with all morning,” Barber shared after patting the child on the head.
The child tossed the ball in the air a few times and smiled at the camera.
While Barber continued to walk with the girl around the camp, she added “Try to find organized groups, volunteer aides and send money that way because they are trying at
this point to not just have an immediate of things, but kind of have a more organized, structured approach to where things go from here.”
Barber gestured toward the child and explained that many families, including women and children, are seeking assistance in the camps and “desperately hoping they can go home.”
When the girl was shown one final time, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing said, “Amid that desperation, it is joyful to see a child who is smiling and at least having a little fun.” Jansing told Barber, “I’ll let you go back and play a little more soccer.”
Barber posted the video of the adorable interaction on Twitter and called it, “the best interruption of a live shot I’ve ever had.” “And play more soccer, we did!” Barber caption a follow-up tweet of her playing with the child.
Along with Poland, other European countries such as Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Slovakia have been accepting Ukrainian refugees.
Ukrainians are fleeing increased violence in the region as Russian troops have been trying to overtake the capital city of Kyiv. Multiple airstrikes have been unleashed on Ukraine and some of those who have not left the country have been forced to retreat underground for shelter.
NYT photographer captures chilling image of 4 Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian strike
Dylan Stableford· Senior Writer Mon, March 7, 2022, 9:44 AM
A Ukrainian learned his family had died after seeing viral photos:
‘I lost everyone and lost the meaning of life’.
Mother shown dead on the street alongside her children in horror
Ukraine photo was a Silicon Valley worker (msn.com)
Mother killed with children while fleeing Ukraine identified as Silicon Valley employee.
Lynsey Addario on the mortar strike that killed a mother and her two children in Ukraine.
The New York Times on Monday published at the top of its front page a chilling photo of 4 Ukrainian civilians, including two children, who were killed by Russian mortar fire as they were attempting to flee.
According to Lynsey Addario, the New York Times photographer who took the photo,
the image shows Ukrainian soldiers trying to save a man, who is lying on the pavement moments after being hit by a mortar while trying to evacuate the town of Irpin, just west
of the capital, Kyiv, on Sunday. Three other people — a woman, her teenage son and her daughter — lie dead behind him. The man later died.
Their luggage was left scattered about, along with a “green carrying case for a small dog that was barking,” Addario reported.
“We witnessed the Russian military bracket their mortars directly onto the civilian pedestrian path, where men, women, children, the elderly, ill and handicapped streamed out of Irpin,” Addario added in a post on Instagram. “I’ve witnessed many horrors in the past twenty years of covering war, but the intentional targeting of children and women is pure evil.”
The top of the front page of Monday’s New York Times.
Lynsey Addario photography
Ukrainian mother killed with her children identified as employee of Palo Alto startup.
People in Irpin have been using a battered bridge, which had been intentionally blown up by Ukrainian forces to slow the Russian advance, to cross into the relative safety of Kyiv.
According to the Times, only a dozen or so Ukrainian soldiers were in the immediate area of the bridge on Sunday. They were not fighting but instead “helping carry civilians’ luggage and children.”
Irpin Mayor Oleksandr Markushin said that at least eight civilians were killed along
the route over the weekend. He said Russian forces were intentionally targeting civilians.
“This is not an army. These are animals,” Markushin said on CNN. “They are killing civilians. They are shelling our city, our residential buildings. They are firing on ambulances. This is just a. Monstrosity. They are animals. They are not people.”
Other photographers in the area captured similar scenes of panicked Ukrainians desperately trying to escape heavy Russian shelling along the evacuation route.
Residents look for cover as they try to escape from the town of Irpin, Ukraine, on Sunday
after heavy shelling on the only escape route used by locals. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
In other cities, Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery fire and airstrikes had prevented residents from making agreed-to evacuations. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of sabotaging the effort.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken saiid that he was aware of the reports of Russians targeting Ukrainian civilians, and that the United States is monitoring Russians for possible war crimes.
“We’ve seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, which would constitute a war crime,” Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “They’re very credible. And we’re documenting everything.”
The body of a person killed by Russian shelling lies covered in the street in Irpin on Sunday. (AP Photo/Diego Herrera Carcedo)
Ukraine says Russian forces are shelling a humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol it promised not to attack (msn.com)
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