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In Inhoulka, the courageous mayor stood firm against the Russian occupier: the story of the special envoy of Figaro

2022-08-08T15:50:22.818Z


REPORT - While the war has been raging for more than five months in Ukraine, the village of Inhulka experienced a lightning occupation by thousands of Russian soldiers for ten days, at the start of the conflict, in March.


Special Envoy to Inhoulka

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Imagine a peaceful isolated Ukrainian village of 2000 inhabitants, accessible by a stony road.

Overnight, nearly 3,000 Russian soldiers, hundreds of armored vehicles entered it, and they occupied it for ten days.

This is the traumatic past that still faces, four and a half months after the events, the mayor of Inhoulka, history teacher and school principal.

Married, two minor boys.

We are not in the martyr city of Boutcha or Irpin, but in a hamlet north of Mykolaiv, near the Bug estuary on the Black Sea.

At its head, an elected official revealed by the war, transformed into an anonymous resistance fighter, for the sole good of her constituents.

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The chosen one fears a repetition of events, possible reprisals.

She refuses to tell her story, before, finally, giving up...

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Source: lefigaro

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