Thus, her name was Iryna Filkina, she was to celebrate her 53rd birthday on April 1.
But everyone, from neighbors to family friends, preferred to call her "Mama Ira."
Even the concierge of a hotel on the shores of the Black Sea, where she stayed for the first time two years ago, took to calling her that.
She was like that, Iryna, ready to welcome the whole world into her arms.
Her daughters often said to her:
"How can all these people, even strangers, love you as soon as they see you?"
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Iryna is one of the anonymous victims of Russian abuses in Ukraine.
However, everyone, or almost, has already seen his hand, the photo of which has become a symbol of the massacres of civilians perpetrated by the Russians in Boutcha, in the suburbs of kyiv.
The image already gives the impression of knowing her a little.
The sleeve of an electric blue coat, feminine, carefully painted fingernails, a little heart drawn on the middle finger.
A coquetry suspended in full flight, like an impulse of life...
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