Elizabeth is to escape from the shelter “In Kiev under the bombs, now I’m going to Vienna”
by Pierfrancesco Curzi
Kiev under Russian bombs and missiles, the escape, but with a happy ending for the representative of the Ukrainian Chamber of Crafts. Elizabeth Miroshnichenko the day before yesterday in Ukraine managed, in a daring way, to cross the border with Hungary: “I left the country, now my destination is Austria and Vienna”. With these words Elizabeth confirmed the success of her evacuation from the battered capital. The previous day, she always via text message, she had written “we are on the road to Vienna” and she had attached two hearts, one blue and one yellow, like the flag of her country. So far so good, but the last two weeks have been terrible for her and her family.
The Pug had written about Elizabeth Miroshnichenko in the very first days of the Ukrainian crisis, when the Russian military attack had targeted Kiev. Its story had been reported by Lucia Trenta, director of the Cna of Ancona and municipal councilor, given that in recent years the Ancona association worked strictly with the Avevagian Chamber of Arts in Kiev for a series of projects. Practically live in those days the laroshnichenko had left us the bombs under the fear of living, the anxiety of the sirens to prepare an attack within and escape into the possibility. In the following days we always kept in touch with her for updates, especially on the possibility of fleeing abroad: “Do not forget us _ wrote the manager of the Artisan Chamber of Ukraine on 3 March _, even when the attention will fail stay close. We hope to defeat this terrible tragedy “.
Then the update of the attacks and the escape preparations: “I am still in Kiev, but I will make every effort to evacuate myself, my family and my two dogs from Kiev _ it was March 7 _. The situation is getting more and more difficult. However we are preparing, the options of are L’viv..), Chernivtsi or Uzhgorod “. Every day of fear and for three days Elizabeth remained silent, then on Thursday a peremptory message: “We are there, all right, we are trying to get moving, between today and tomorrow morning I will update you on our movements. However we are very close to a solution, we hope. Things change quickly, we must be careful and take advantage of the truces, cease-fires and humanitarian corridors “. Now finally, with things done, the announcement of having crossed the Hungarian border and the imminent arrival in the Austrian capital. Elizabeth Miroshnichenko had told us the sad story of Iryna Tsvila, an artisan in the jewelery sector and reservist of the Ukrainian army since 2014, who went to the front and died with her husband on the third day of the war, on February 26, near the capital. Happy for the news of the good result of the evacuation from Kiev of the director of the Ukrainian Chamber of Crafts is finally Lucia Trenta: “I am happy to know that my friend Elizabeth is out of Ukraine in war, safe and sound, in a friendly country _ says the manager of the internationalization sector of Cna Ancona and group leader in the municipal council _. You know well that I am at your complete disposal if you need or need any kind of assistance and support later on. Of course I wish you to be able to return as soon as possible in his nation in peace “.