“Worried”, “discouraged”, even “desperate” are heard. But always standing in the hope that “resisting is winning.” The 3.600 infinite kilometers that separate kyiv and Madrid do not move away the feelings of dejection that reach the Huge Ukrainian community in Spain. Here, in him Third anniversary of the beginning of the Russian invasionnobody sees an end close. Even less than it has ended by “Disappointed” citizens consulted by El HuffPost.
Everyone has their name and their story, but even thousands of kilometers from Russian aggression not everyone dares to reveal them. They do Yuri Chopicpresident of the Ukrainian community in Spain; The lawyer Liliya mykolayiv and the vice president of the NGOs we join hearts, Galane. They share a total “disenchantment” by the Prorrusa derives from Trump’s policy and a “pain” that does not stop growing after “three years of total war but more than 11 years of true warthat nobody forgets it. “
Olga does not weigh that “the news occurs with such speed that it is very difficult for us to perform an analysis; we are not analysts, we are volunteers.” “But we do accumulate feelings and feel hurt, right now It is as if they had hit us in the back. Because our country wants to attack two predators who want to take what is left, even the subsoil, “.
This report sees the light another February 24, as in which. This time, the objective is not that global analysis that the protagonists themselves claim not to be able to do, but a microphone open to the feelings of a part of the more than 300,000 Ukrainian citizens residing in Spain. With many of them, Yuri Chopic tries. His testimony serves as a speaker of anonymous confessions. You can speak plural and do so by stating that “Trump’s latest movements have disappointed us and They leave us chemically“.
“We thought Trump would bow more to our side, but we are realizing that it is the other way around. Beyond the differences with his ideology, In him we saw that strong leaderwith a personality Able to face Putin As others do not dare, but We are no longer seeing that figure That moves by a true peace, “Liliya laments.
Trump’s latest movements have disappointed us and leave us chemically touched
Yuri Chopic, president of the Ukrainian community in Spain
For the person responsible for the main entity of Ukrainians in Spain, Trump represented the “hope of changeespecially after insisting that true peace would be only with a strong Ukraine. “However, he considers that the US president” has turned to legitimize the dictator Putin, precisely without using that word that he has used with Zelenski. ” , seen what has been seen, in one aspect, the undoubted “unpredictability” of Trumpwho “may be able to change speech again.”
It does or not, what they do not stop are the Russian bombs, a reality to which it is “impossible” to escape is where the immense Ukrainian device is, because “although we live far away, it ends up touching you very closely, If he is not a relative, he is a dead neighbor, or the house of your parents who appears flown For a bomb. “Olga tells him with the horror of having lived this recent experience.
“Neither in Spain nor in the rest of the world where we can keep the life of before; Our mind fails to ‘get out’ of our country“, Yuri insists. He confesses him by telling some” horrors of war “that he could live first -hand Chernigivska (near kyiv) and Lepolis.
“For three years many people live, We live, overnight of WhatsApp that confirms that your family is alive“Liliya adds.” The sky of Ukraine is still open and that makes the bombs continue to fall and kill people everywhere. With each attack warning we have to write to our people to know how they are, that is the sad reality that we cannot forget. “
Esa distance which the three refer so much not only does not clarify the impact, but it reaches increase “psychological pain”as Olga defines it. The vice president of Unpless Hearts admits that in her constant calls to friends and family “are they who end up reassuring ustelling us that they try to continue life there. ”
“People continue to clean the streets or remove the rubble after the bombings. It is admirable that, in these conditions, the Ukrainians do not collapse … Here, we all help how we canfor example, giving urgent and personalized help to more than 60 homes, “he adds, some tasks that Yuri and Liliya also know.” Everyone does what he can from Spain, because we live with that pain in the soul, “says this last.
To our country they want to attack two predators who want to take what is left, even the subsoil
Olga Ledo Galano, vice president of the NGOs we join hearts
Spain appears in the conversation, not only because of the obvious reason that this is its land of residence for five years. They talk about true receptionthe one that “gave and continues to give” the Spanish people to the Ukrainian, in the words of the lawyer.
Both Liliya and his compatriots get rid of praise towards Spanish society, of which “we continue to feel affection and support.” There is a detail that greatly impacts Yuri, “that The demonstrations in front of the Russian embassy continuealthough there are 5-7 people, there are still. ”
“The reception that this country has given us will not be able to forget it, Spain has helped much because knows that Russia is the aggressor country… something that some leaders now seem to ignore, “the president of the Ukrainian community in Spain clarifies with obvious pain.
None fear a possible ‘or’ social tiredness’ for a war that does not end. “I believe,” says Olga, “that is because this is happening in Europe and why It is a threat that touches us allto Ukraine and the EU. That is why I insist, help to our country cannot decline, because the threat is common and Putin does not go ‘only’ for Ukraine, “he culminates.
