A Ukrainian woman remembers February 24 with horror.
Legendary Ukrainian track and field athlete Olga Saladukha < I remembered how the war against Russia started for her.
“I'm running away from the” Russian measure “for the second time. that he wants to occupy Luhansk, Donetsk region and Crimea, so we immediately decided to go to Ukraine, because I was born in Ukraine, I defend the flag of this country, and no matter how much I was offered to move somewhere, I stayed in Ukraine. no matter how much we were trained, no matter how much information was in the media, until the last moment no one believed that Russia would take these actions.
These explosions, missiles … We woke up from how the missile We still live on the 22nd floor, fighters began to fly above us, tanks began to ride under us, from the window you could see how Gostomel was burning, you could see the “Russian peace” in all its glory. figured out what to do next. It was a shock. The child had to go somewhere to rest so that she would not see or hear it. Although, unfortunately, she saw and heard it, “Xsport.ua MP was quoted as saying.
The 38-year-old Donetsk native is the 2011 world champion and three-time European triple jump champion. It will be recalled that on February 24, Russian President Putin made an urgent statement about a special military operation in Ukraine, launching a large-scale invasion of Ukrainian cities.
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