She had managed to save her son
Olena fought and treated the wounded to the end. As the fighting in the streets of the port city, the center of this war, intensified, Sergeant Kushnir had taken steps to rescue his young son through one of Mariupol’s few and fragile humanitarian corridors. But then she came back, although she had already lost her husband in the fighting in the first days of the Russian occupation.
Defense of Mariupol was the only option
“Don’t pity me, I’m a doctor, a fighter, I’m Ukrainian, I’m doing my duty,” she said to a friend a few days before her death in a chat reported today by Mariupol, who also published a video appeal Sergeant for ” Shake the West”. In the video, shot in a secret shelter and targeted by Russian propaganda, which was celebrating her death on its channels, Olena appeared in military uniform and urged to allow the evacuation of Mariupol “to give the population the opportunity to bring medicine and to remove the many wounded and to give the dead a dignified burial”.
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Olena also described the total destruction of the city and the humanitarian catastrophe of those who, as a result of the siege, are left without food, water and an opportunity to feed themselves: “In Mariupol there are still people, they are in the basements, they are underground, they need everything. . If you don’t want to save Mariupol, then please save its citizens! We don’t want to be heroes and martyrs, you can’t say you didn’t know because you knew and could act,” was one of his appeals. Private Kushnir reported on the war from February 24 on his Facebook page. “I’m in hell but that’s okay,” Olena wrote in early March, already on the hottest front. The last post is on Mariupol. “My city is dead. Always and forever,” he wrote on April 10.
