Taking hold. dismantling opposition groups and banning many media organizations not in line with the kremlin s policies. jelena says she understands people s fears. they are afraid of losing their jobs, she says, being expelled from college, and there have been such incidents even if they see a photo on the internet showing someone holding a ukrainian flag. that is already grounds for sacking. but yeah laina isn t scared, she says, if the authorities keep taking her protest art, she ll paint more, and even a battalion of riot police won t silence her creative mind. and jake, just to give you an idea about the strength of character that we re talking about here. jelena, she told me that she s not just thinking of possible new posters to draw, she s also thinking of repainting some of the ones that have been taken away by the authorities. now, of course, all this is very taxing at 76 years of age, but she says that as long as she s
66-year-old artist who wants russia to repent for a so-called special military operation. jelena might seem a bit frail, but her will is strong, and her creativity seems unstoppable. the 76-year-old artist has been detained for several anti-war protests since russia began what it calls its special military operation in ukraine. but when we visited her in her apartment in st. petersburg, she showed no signs of feeling intimidated. instead, complaining that police had taken her posters. they took some away and haven t given them back, although they promised to give them back to me. this has been going on for some time. so she keeps painting more posters, like this one. a bird symbolizing russia with the writer, russia is mourning, and russia is not putin. it s a repentant bird, she says, a bird in mourning.
There are many such people in mourning here. jelena is not afraid to speak out about even the most difficult topics. like the massacre in bucha, where hundreds of dead bodies were found in the kyiv suburb after russian forces retreated from there in early april. ukraine and international investigators have launched investigations into possible war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. moscow continues to reject its forces were responsible. the very large poster shows dead people with huge piercing open eyes and the text says, the eyes of the dead will remain open until russia repents. for me, what was important in this poster is this word, repentance, she said. it was important to me to emphasize it. while some russians took to the streets to protest vladimir putin s special military operation during its early days, authorities have now effectively stopped any larger movement from
Into what he called dead cities . it comes as russia s ambassador to the united nations walked out of a meeting of the security council after the eu s charles michel blamed the invasion of ukraine for causing a globalfood crisis. 0ur correspondentjoe inwood has this report from kyiv. jelena has been left with her life, but little else. don t walk there, the roof could fall, her rescuer says. the 81 year old s house was hit in a suspected russian missile artillery strike. translation: you see | yourself what happened. what else can i say? i have been left homeless in my old age. she lives in the village of druzhkivka, just under 50 miles from the cities of lysychansk and severodonetsk, the current focus of russia s forces. and this is what could await her town if the russian invasion continues. under almost constant bombardment, president zelensky says they have
To returning as soon as possible. sarina wiegman s side begin a series of friendly matches next week in the build up to the home european championships that start in july. that s all the sport for now. president zelensky of ukraine has warned that his troops in the eastern city of severodonetsk are outnumbered by stronger russian forces. he said street fighting and constant russian artillery bombardments there and in neighbouring lysychansk had turned both areas into what he called dead cities . it comes as russia s ambassador to the united nations walked out of a meeting of the security council after the eu s charles michel blamed the invasion of ukraine for causing a globalfood crisis. our correspondentjoe inwood has this report from kyiv. jelena has been left with her life, but little else. don t walk there, the roof could fall, her rescuer says. the 81 year old s house was hit in a suspected russian missile artillery strike.