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Bogdana,
22, had only traveled to Milan for a few days, to show during Fashion Week, but the war changed her life: blocked like other
Ukrainian models,
she dedicated herself to putting together aid packages for her country.
"I felt that it was something stupid, unreal, to be on the catwalk while people were dying, I was ashamed and I had the impression that the public did not really care," he tells AFP.
When shelling sirens sound in the middle of the night in her Ukrainian city,
Bogdana Didenko Nevodnik
wakes up thanks to an app on her smartphone.
He lives the war from a distance, minute by minute, from his exile in Milan.
His first reaction was to try to
"go back on the first train
or bus" to
Kamianske,
near Dnipro.
But her husband, a young surgeon, and her family dissuaded her.
With her long dark hair tied back and an intense gaze, she is in charge, together with a score of volunteers, of dispatching the numerous aid packages that have been deposited in the small
courtyard of the Ukrainian consulate in Milan,
in order to send them to the war zones.
Colorful drawings of children asking
"No to war!"
adorn the facade of the building, at whose feet they have placed bouquets of flowers.
Cars and trucks load and unload packages of
food, medicine, batteries and toys
in a constant stream of traffic.
killing machines
The model Valya Fedotova volunteers in Milan to send aid to her country.
"I am willing to risk my life for Ukraine. If necessary, I join the army. There are many women," says the young model, dressed in black, who walks for major brands around the world.
As a teenager, he took
boxing lessons.
"I've always had a fighting spirit," he says.
"I was a good shooter because I practiced a lot during my free time," she says.
"The Russian soldiers who invaded my country are terrorizing our people, they want to destroy us," he laments.
"They bombard maternity centers with pregnant women inside, how can that be a strategic objective!" Bogdana assures indignantly.
Among the volunteers, there is another Ukrainian model,
Valya Fedotova,
20, who confessed that she walked the catwalk almost crying during Milan Fashion Week.
"But you can't cry on the catwalk, they pay me for it and I can also
send money to my family
in Ukraine," he says.
Bogdana Didenko Nevodnik, at the Dolce & Gabbanna fall-winter 2022-23 show, held at the end of February in Milan.
shocked
The night the Russians began bombing her town,
Malyn
, some 100 km from Kiev, "I couldn't sleep, I'm still in shock," says the slender, sweet-faced young woman, who shares an apartment with
six others.
Ukrainian models.
Even before the bombing began, he had begged his family to flee, but only his mother and two sisters took refuge with relatives near the Polish border, while
his father preferred to keep the cat.
His dream?
"Let this stupid war end, I just want to live a normal life, go home and see my family," she says.
What about Chernobyl?
Ivan Sokolovskyy,
28, asked his employer in the fashion industry in Milan for permission at the start of the Russian invasion to lend a hand, load packages onto trucks and serve as an interpreter.
"I couldn't stay home watching the news, I wanted to help my people," says the former model, from Ternopil, western Ukraine.
His greatest fear is
the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,
where the worst nuclear accident in history occurred in 1986, which has been occupied since February 24 by the Russians.
"I think they are going to do something in Chernobyl, that scares me a lot. They are so crazy that they are capable of doing it."
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