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War in Ukraine: Olga, in the footsteps of her prisoner husband in Russia

2023-01-11T18:56:19.499Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE – The young woman took refuge in Switzerland, leaving her military husband at the heart of the fighting. Like many Ukrainian women, she lost contact with him.


By Théophile Simon and Marie Parvex (

La Tribune de Genève

)

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After months of anguish, Olga Strelchenko received a message this Wednesday morning.

It is a chat on Telegram which announces to him that “

the guys saw her husband in a remand center in Kamishyn in the Volgograd region

”, in Russia, and that they would have received warm clothes.

She doesn't know anything else, but he would be alive.

And that's already a lot.

Since May 18, Olga has had no direct contact with Levgen.

She tells, in the living room of a pastor who helped her to settle on the heights of Rolle (VD), last March.

In the distance, Lake Geneva is misty and peaceful.

He was in the underground of the factory and I heard the bombs

Olga Strelchenko

It's very difficult for me to be here warm, with food and help, away from the bombs, when I don't know if my husband has anything to eat, if he is sick or tortured.

Levgen is a professional soldier, he is part of the national guard.

»

He was among the defenders of the Azovstal Metallurgical Plant during the Siege of Mariupol.

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Source: lefigaro

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