The images of a girl slipping on an icy sidewalk in Kiev (Ukraine) and getting up to try again, over and over again, go a long way.
The video from a video surveillance camera on Andreyevski Spusk street in the Ukrainian capital, showing his fight against the weather conditions, has become very popular on Twitter in the last week.
And more than one has been reflected in its inexhaustible battle.
Each in their own way.
"We are all the girl, the frozen sidewalk is 2020," some users commented on Twitter.
He fell 40 times on frozen cobblestones.
CCTV footage captured in Kyiv, Ukraine yesterday shows people struggling to walk downhill due to ice covering the street in the city center.
Over 4,000 sweepers were deployed to remove the ice from the city streets.
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Images recorded yesterday in Kiev, Ukraine, showing people having difficulty walking uphill because of the ice that covered the streets of the city center.
More than 4,000 street sweepers were mobilized to remove the ice from the city streets.
The protagonist of the video is called María M. and she is nine years old.
He is in third grade at a school in Kiev and loves learning to do aerobatics and play the piano.
Last Friday, when he left choir and crafts class, where he makes stuffed toys, he found the streets frozen by the freezing rain that hit the Ukrainian capital hard.
Without squatting down, María, or Masha, the diminutive by which everyone knows her, tries to move along the slippery cobblestones to walk the small path where she had to meet one of her three brothers to return home together, says her mother, Inna M., on the phone to
Verne
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Some copies of the video have exceeded tens of thousands of interactions in less than a week.
In the video of just over a minute you can see how the girl, wearing leather boots, a purple backpack and a pink hat, repeatedly tries to climb over the curb of Andreyevski Spusk and falls to the ground.
And he repeats it.
And he turns face down again.
And he tries on all fours.
Persistent.
Beside him many passersby skilfully glide across the frozen pavement.
"Masha is a very positive and lively girl. She always smiles and faces all complications with a smile. She is very persistent. If the teacher tells her that you have to read a text five times that is what she will do," Inna laughs. he prefers not to have his last name published.
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Masha, in a photo posted by her mother on Instagram.
"We were very surprised to learn that this video had spread all over the world. Now many people are writing to Masha. Everyone admires her perseverance and wishes her luck. Some even say that Masha will be mayor of Kiev!" mother.
"They say they want to use these images as a motivational video. Although there are of course others who write to me on Instagram to tell me that I have to buy other boots, or why was the girl going on foot and not in transport," says Inna, who She comments with amusement that little Masha does not know Spain but that she would be delighted to visit the country.
The girl says that thanks to her aerobatics classes she knows "how to fall" and that she left the adventure with just a few bruises.
Freezing rain wreaked havoc over the weekend in the Ukrainian capital and emergency services were overwhelmed by warnings of falls, visits for bruises and broken bones.
Some took advantage of the weather phenomenon to take out their skates and slide down the sidewalks and the road.
More than 150 towns and villages across the country were without power for hours due to the storms.
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The streets of Kiev have frozen so much that you could literally skate on ice.
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