Special envoy to Semypolsky and Bila Tsverkva,
Lost in the middle of snowy fields, on the edge of a forest, stands a large building made of wooden logs.
Semypolsky’s “Seven Fields” school seems straight out of a fairy tale.
Micro-confetti on the map of Ukraine, the small village is so isolated that the Russians did not cross it during their major offensive on Kiev in February 2022. It was thus spared from the massacres which hit the cities neighbors of Brovary and Boutcha.
Ex-Russian model, the hostess, Oksana Volzhyna experienced the crazy years which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet empire.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, she has distinguished herself by a bravery flirting with unconsciousness.
For the forty students in her establishment, this 50-year-old short-haired blonde, with a slender and athletic figure, is a fairy: she went to save them in Oleshky, opposite Kherson, behind the Russian lines, the snatching with their parents from the clutches of the occupiers, or from Bakhmout, a few meters from enemy positions, under deluges of bombs, where no Ukrainian soldier or rescuer went anymore.
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