War in Ukraine: Sister Nadia works in Prague and is afraid of her father-in-law
Nadija works as a nurse at the General University Hospital in Prague. WITH husband and daughter have lived here since 1999, The Czechia is their home, although according to her, leaving their homeland was not easy.
Now Nadija has tears in her eyes whenever she has to talk about what is happening in Ukraine now. Although she comes from Transcarpathian Ukraine, an area near the Slovak border where the fighting has not yet arrived, she says that her whole family is in shock.
“I can’t even talk about it, I immediately have increased pressure. I don’t have parents anymore, but the husband has a father of almost eighty, the attack came on his birthday. We’d like to take Daddy here, but as the saying goes, “You won’t transplant an old tree.” Daddy said he’d stay until the last minute and see each other. Actually, I don’t even know how we could get him here across the border,“Nadija thinks.
Nadija: We didn’t sleep on the first day of the attack
Describing, how the whole family did not sleep on the first day of the attack and now they are still watching the news, hoping to finally learn something positive. “They negotiated a so-called peace and fired anyway. When it came to peace, for example in the Arab states, there was a ceasefire, but perhaps they shot even more, we are constantly shocked, “the woman confides.
That Vladimir Putin eventually to Ukraine will attack, she said she wasn’t expecting. “Although he proved to be an arrogant leader, he constantly armed himself, while Ukraine did not. When you listen to him, he threatens almost everyone, arrogance emanates from him, but that he really spins – perhaps it surprised everyone,“Says Nadija.
At the same time, he adds that the problem is that that Ukraine wants to be independent, democratic and join the West. And she says that seems to bother Putin. “AGAINST Russia is not a democracy, “Says Nadia and continues:” Not all Russians are for war, they are protesting. But when you look at footage from other protests, so only in Russia are dDemonstrations are suppressed and participants are beating. “
The Russians trust Putin
In Ukraine, in addition to her father-in-law, Nadia has two brothers who have a family. They are scared and the men are waiting to be drafted into the army. “I spoke to my friend yesterday and spoke completely differently than the first day the war broke out. I’m afraid the locals are losing hopeNadija thinks, explaining: “The whole world is helping, but if someone helps, they think it is aid arrives in Ukraine immediately. It’s not this way. And I hope that the Ukrainians do not lose hope that anyone will help them. “
Nadia has a cousin in Russia. “It simply came to our notice then. She trusts her leader. He even tells me: What is Ukraine? Nothing. And I answer her: You grew up there. She wasn’t talked to her, “says Nadija sadly. According to her, not all Russians are against the war in Ukraine. “But they did not know democracy, unlike us. All you have to do is look at the news – everything is one big lie, “the nurse describes the atmosphere in Russia.
Czechs as brothers
He has words of praise for President Volodymyr Zelenský. And not just for him, but also for the Czech Republic, the Czech nation and the Czech government.
“The Russians have always said they are our brothers. They never were. We always tried be higher than us. But the Czech nation helpshe approaches it fraternally and I look at footage from the Czech Republic, I think, my God, it’s not possible, really – like our brothers, “he says.
The Nadija family sends financial donations to Ukraine, and they also watched a concert for Ukraine. She mentions when as a nurse sees photos of children born in shelters or crying when Russians shoot schools and kindergartens and pronounces the word “genocide.”
Message for Putin and Ukraine
“I want to show Putin to stop to set the boundaries as they were and to make life as it should be in that vast Russia. In remote villages, for example, he made asphalt roads to take care of his country and not suppress demonstrations. It is democracy, people have a right to their opinion, “he sends a message to the Russian president.
“And I want to tell the Ukrainian people that I support them terribly, I keep my fingers crossed,” Nadija concludes, adding in her native language: “Glory to Ukraine and glory to Ukrainian heroes.”