of america met with three maidan activists whose lives changed forever in november 2013, says lesya bakaletshe monument. they lined up and, as if receiving an order, they began to beat everyone in a row. yuliy terikhov was one of the students who came under the force of the berkut maidan on the night of november 29-30, 2000 , 14th year, when the euromaidan turned into a revolution. i didn't think that there would be so many of me, well, if the consequences of being beaten, it seemed under adrenaline, well, there were a couple, a couple of times, or three or five, but, i looked in mirror, there half the back was blue. independence square and the surrounding streets for yulia forever remained places of confrontation. he stops every few meters to tell that he was shot here. here he and his friends were going on an assault. one of the shocks of my brain happened right here. many berkut people just ran at us from above, hurling these stun grenades at us, i remember one morning i found a piece of this plastic grenade in my pocket, the jacket had holes, and it seems that it was that morning, so sme

lesya bakalets, voice of america. our next story is about a mother and daughter from mariupol, who survived the shelling for a month and barely made it out of the occupied city. now they live in the usa, do volunteer work and join the action in support of ukraine. and my colleague iryna shinkarenko found out that the family visited different cities in america, but above all they dream of returning to their hometown after the release, for security reasons we do not mention their surnames. here is a christmas tree near the drama theater, which is no longer there, near the drama theater we always had such a good time that it, like the ones lit up here in washington, we had such a thing in the center of the city. elena and her daughter miraculously managed to save photos from their favorite city, they deleted almost everything from their phones before the so-called filtering, which took place at russian checkpoints. the family fled mariupol after a month of living under occupation. well, our family lived in the primorsky

lesya bakalets will tell how the owner of branded clothing came to the aid of the wounded and why womenlled fairies, sew underwear from brightly colored fabric. this is an adaptive t-shirt that can be completely opened on both sides for convenience, on this side there are also velcro, you can put it under the injured person, open it, make a bandage and then close it again, craftswoman olga skidynets processes plain t-shirts nada. has been active for more than a year, sewing was her hobby before the war, now it is a way to thank the ukrainian military. it happens that an order comes from one of the hospitals, and it is necessary to sew, for example, 20 t-shirts, so i sew all the time, before the great war, families of bedridden and immobile patients knew more about adaptive clothing, but now the demand for such products has increased precisely among wounded soldiers, due to complex injuries they cannot. put on a regular t-shirt or pants. sometimes, they are given elizave devices and they have ordinary ones do not pass the sleeves, let's say, the arm, because there is a construction going

lesya bakalets. denis comes from kherson. last october, when the city was still occupied by the russians, his lyceum organized a forced trip of students to the so-called health camp in occupied livpatoria. the lyceum forged documents for going to the camp. and i was simply deported illegally. denis was then 17 years old. in the camp, he recalls, he and the children started right away to conduct political information. there was a head of security, a former ukrainian berkutov citizen, valery ostahov, he fled in 2014, switched to the russian side , he gathered us, said that russia is better, ukraine is bad, russia will seize all the territories of ukraine, that ukrainians are slaves, the camp was supposed to last for two weeks , but denis stayed in the parish for four months. i stayed until the second of february, because i am a student, and all students began to be sent to study on the occupied peninsula, i was sent to kev, where the boy was supervised by the staff of the local college, who constantly offered him to change his