He had Down syndrome and was on his way to the speech therapist is one of the 23 dead in the attack on Vinnytsia: “Mom doesn’t know yet”
“Mamma, I’m in heaven, I’m a cloud. Looking at the white world from above. There are a lot of weird kids here, the ones who couldn’t save themselves. ‘ In the Facebook Remembrance Prayer, friends and family concocted a heartbreaking farewell hymn. Liza was four, sneakers as white as her pants, her hair neatly combed back, and she smiled Thursday morning as she pushed the pink stroller on her way to the speech therapist in Vinnytsia. She was a Ukrainian girl with Down syndrome, a lilac queen, whom her mother Irina Dmitrieva, 99,000 followers on Instagram, filmed and photographed every moment, showing her as a little star. A special normality, told in her posts since her birth: “Many told me not to give birth, but I present to you my little angel,” she reads.
Liza’s life ended early, under the blows of a Russian missile that landed where no one expected, on a building of offices and medical centers in a city in the center of Ukraine, far from the first and second lines, from the trenches and by the frictional war of the two armies in the South and the East.
Anti-aircraft sirens had sounded in the area. The children of the LogoClub center had had time to gather in the shelters, but mother and daughter, who are seen appearing together while chatting in a last video at 9.38 am, were unable to take shelter. The following frames are an unspeakable torment of death: the little girl on the ground, her body gutted, the cadaverous face. The stroller at the side stained with blood, in the background of the Jubilee shopping center, incinerated by the flames. The mother was transported to the hospital, seriously injured. You have had a limb amputated. And she always asks for Lise. She still does not know that the child is no longer there: «It is a terrible tragedy – comments the speech therapist Valeriia Korol, interviewed yesterday by the BBC -. As a mother myself, I don’t know how it is possible to give someone such news, I just don’t know. ‘
Another twenty-three people died in the Russian attack on Thursday, eight are still missing, ten serious in hospital. Death where the Kremlin propaganda says that “fascist” soldiers were lurking, discussing the arrival of new weapons. Yesterday, the Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement on the attack, not mentioning the death of the children. Rather, he claimed that Russia fired “high-precision” missiles and “hit” a meeting of Ukrainian military and foreign officials, who were discussing supplies. On the spot, however, international media reports do not show any clues confirming Moscow’s version. What was hit is a building called the Officers’ House on Victory Square, but the only military feature seems to be the name, which dates back to the Soviet era.
The story of Liza, of the LogoClub who ended up in the crosshairs of alleged “high-precision” Russian rockets and of other innocent young people such as Maksim Zharii, seven, who died with his mother Viktoriia, or of another boy still unnamed, who was waiting for him. uncle in a car and that he was charred, are some of the images we will always remember, of Putin’s war. «Liza was very cheerful, she loved coming to us. She was a very kind child. To her mother, she was the whole meaning of her life. She loved him madly. I can’t even imagine what a drama this is for the family », explains the doctor again. She that she runs the special needs center where Liza was to attend a meeting that morning, as she did most days. Mother and daughter had returned to Vinnytsia from Kiev shortly after the outbreak of the war. As a precaution, because they considered it safer. But no place is safer in Ukraine.
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