A Ukrainian mother writes her daughter's name on her back so she can be identified

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The soldiers, at least, have the dog tags.

The children, not even that.

So

wrote the first and last name on her daughter's back.

It is possible that he put it in an innocent way: "Come on, let's play."

So, on this new Ukrainian identity card, epidermal instead of digital, and itinerant, the mother also put

.

An unfortunately serious game, because in war you never know what is going to happen.

A person's mind takes strange, practical or almost aberrant paths, unthinkable in Ukraine until forty-one days ago.

Oleksandra's story has been told by Iuliia Mendel through Twitter and has ended up in

.

"I even surprised myself thinking that, at this point,

" Her mother concluded in the aforementioned medium.

Also the story of another mother, on the other side of the border.

This is a 45-year-old Russian woman, a political analyst, who has explained to the

that she has had to go through many police stations in Moscow, this last month, to demand the release of her teenage son, detained in street protests against the war .

The young man is now receiving threats on social media,

to an organized group of regime thugs.

Her case is opposite to that of the Ukrainian mother.

Unlike the identity document written on her skin, the Moscow mother does not even reveal her name,

for both her and her son.

"I feel like a drop in the ocean. Someone else has made the decision for us. It is this passivity that is our tragedy," she laments.

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