In a woman’s life, the story of the war of Ukraine lasts 3 years

Since the husband was arrested by the Russians, Olha Kurtmallieva did his best to accelerate his return. He organized rallies to support the prisoners of war, acknowledged with government officials and read the book to understand the psychological trauman that was likely to live.

Although in the remission of a rare cancer, he runs out of that time, perhaps, perhaps and maybe for Ukraine.

Ms. Kurtmalliyeva, 25 and the rest of Ukraine will pass a stage on Monday, the country will reach Az Man: The The third anniversary From the full-scale occupation of Russia. Initially, Russian leaders and even some American officials assumed that Kiev will hold the capital of the Russian troops in a few days.

This did not happen. And now, as Ms Kurtmallieva, Holded and Exhausted Mrs. Kurtmallieva, this anniversary was able to be the most violent ally of the United States apathetic Toward Russia.

Ms Kurtmallieva’s story is the story of this war: an occupying, battle, loss, a stalemate, a life in limbo. He needs more chemotherapy to strengthen his remission. Now the 31-year-old husband is still in captivity.

“I can now sit and start crying, and I said this was very difficult and very painful,” Kurtmallieva said at the last meeting. “But I understand that I didn’t have another choice and there is still no. I just need to go and live the life I live or be bad.”

There are many ways to measure the price of a three-year war. You can do this with numbers: Evaluating more than 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers and 150,000 RussianMany dies in the wildly battles on their legs along the 600 mile line; say 13000 Although the real number is higher, he confirmed its civilian loss; much more 61.000 Ms. Kurtmallieva’s husband, a sea of ​​Ukrainians, a sea, which is dead or hidden, as a sea of ​​a sea, which has more than 1,000 in Mariupol in April 2022.

New shorthand: “Double widows”, only one husband is war, but for those who lost two. “Triple amputes” to describe those who lost three limbs in a mortar or drone.

You can also measure this war with people who have been forced to leave behind: a Gardener, Abandoned in east of melitopol; An animal forgotten on the edge of Mariupol 9-year-old He told the blasts to the soundtrack; Blue velvet balls were hanged on each New Year’s holiday, Azov, in a southern city of AZOV in Mariupol. All went.

Despite the fact that the past is haunted, we are waiting for Ms Kurtmalliev about everything he lost. When doctors say that he was remission in the last May, it’s self-present: Maltipoo Puppy. He said he was lucky, said, he could bring a little from it.

Ms. Kurtmallieva, his hometown, his hometown, received six months after the Russian forces. Now live in a small studio apartment in Kiev, it is great enough for a queen-sized bed, chairs and lucky. A painted brick wall, white white, with a photo of almost three dozen, mainly after his cancer diagnosis, and one of the others and others, the other and kissing, husbands and kisses, the other are decorated with their kisses. Shows several wedding days.

During the corner, Ms Kurtmallieva protects the level of memorials that concentrates Berdiansk’s highlights: sea, port, Ferris wheel, beacon.

The Easter Church was introduced to his husband and married in 2017, and after the age of 18, and the end of the Seashurists who supported the east of Ukraine; He did not want his future children to fight.

In the fall of 2021, when he was 21 years old, Ms Kurtmallieva was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin Limfoma after feeling a hard piece in his neck. There was a chemotherapy treatment in the nearby Mariupol city, but then there was a small shot.

After 22 February 2022, his husband surprised him in his apartments in Berdians. He said something did not feel that something would happen, but it didn’t say. He thought he looked tired. After two hours, he returned to his unit in the 36th Sea Brigade.

This was the last time Ms Kurtmallieva said he had said his husband and smile. Two days later the Russians occupied.

The husband besieged in the city of Mariupol, which is once or twice a week, but the calls lasted only once or two minutes. Sometimes he sent text messages if he only had a period to show that he was alive.

On March 27, he sent a picture behind a vehicle. “Well, darling, be strong there,” he said. “I love you.”

“You, my dear, you are the best of you,” he replied. “Be strong, my love.”

On that day, Russian tanks entered Berdiansk. Then he did not hear anything. About two weeks later, Mr Kurtmalliev’s steel plant in Mariupol, Ms Kurtmallieva did not know this right now.

A month later, Ms. Kurtmallieva received a letter from a Russian trial detention center. His hands were so shocked, he knocked down the bottom of the letter. It was short: “My love, your husband writes to you. I am well and I’m doing well. I love you. I hope we see each other soon. Your, Ruslan.”

Six months were trapped in Berdiansk. No cemo, there is no doctor, no more news about Ruslan.

He was the last thing in the mind of his health as he did to Kiev. It was almost angry, he organizes protests for war prisoners, scans telegram channels that reflect the videos of prisoners every morning. Feeling running and sick, finally went to the doctor. Cancer has passed into 4 stages.

Again needed the penemo. This time he brought 29-year-old Inna Turova, 29-year-old Inna Turova, who had prisoners in a few months. Ms. Turova lost his brother after a plane carrying the plane 65 Prisoners of War Head to a replacement was somehow shot.

“I do not know how I feel for him, but I know that he is the strongest person I love,” he is the strongest person who struggled for his love. ” “He is waiting for the one he chosen. We are waiting for him to return him back and hold his hand.”

Ms. Kurtmallieva said that there was nothing about his husband’s future, nothing about his forecast. He keeps a book – “a warrior, always a warrior: navigating the passage home from the battle” – next to his bed. He knows that his husband is released or that it would not be an easy time. He knows that he will need a solitary time, and it knows that it cannot understand that he has the right to make his choices.

But he knows what he will do: Although he was a studio apartment in Kiev, he will bring him home and hold it.

Oleksandra mykolyyshyn and Dzvinka Pinchuk Contributing report.