💔 #AzovstaI , A Tragic Love Story.
Mariupol defender Valeriya Karpylenko from Azov battalion (call sign ‘Nava’) became a fiancée, wife, and widow at the besieged Azovstal steelworks.
Mariupol defender Valeriya Karpylenko from Azov battalion (call sign ‘Nava’) became a fiancée, wife, and widow at the besieged Azovstal steelworks.
💔 “Andrii made me rings from tin foil at Azovstal... They were perfect...
A day here is like a year.
I was a bride, then a wife, now...
A word which is scary to say...”
A day here is like a year.
I was a bride, then a wife, now...
A word which is scary to say...”
💔On May 5, Valeria and Ukrainian border guard Andrii (call sign ‘Boroda’) got married.
“We got married on Azov's ‘birthday’. A border guard and an Azovette. We just did a report. Here, under bombing and shelling. But it was a happy day and a happy photo...”
“We got married on Azov's ‘birthday’. A border guard and an Azovette. We just did a report. Here, under bombing and shelling. But it was a happy day and a happy photo...”
💔…but just three days later Andrii was killed in action. Valeriya promised her beloved to get out of the siege and to live on for both of them.
“We had time to wed.
We had time to be happy.
We didn't have nearly enough time with each other.
I will love you forever, my hero.”
“We had time to wed.
We had time to be happy.
We didn't have nearly enough time with each other.
I will love you forever, my hero.”
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