Beauty for graduates
In May 2022, graduates of several Donetsk schools came to the Moscow region for a month to prepare for and pass exams in a relaxed atmosphere.
Due to constant shelling in their homeland, their stay was extended, and the guys celebrated their graduation in Russia.
To make the holiday, which happens once in a lifetime, special, the RT project “We will continue to act” raised more than 900 thousand rubles to buy dresses, suits and shoes for 71 graduates, as well as to pay for manicures for girls.
26 volunteer stylists came to help them prepare for the holiday, and they did hair and make-up for the graduates free of charge.
"Beauty marathon" for Donetsk graduates was organized by stylist-make-up artist Maria Moilanen.
“You rarely see when people volunteered for charitable projects, that is, for work that is not paid, with such enthusiasm,” she said.
This response was a pleasant surprise for me.
Moreover, the girls, having finished with one graduate, immediately took on the next one.
And in such an intense rhythm they worked all morning.
It's great, it's amazing.
There were so many of us that we even combed some of the boys.”
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The graduates themselves were very worried.
While stylists were working on them, the girls talked about their plans for the future.
“Today we are going to ride a yacht on the Moscow River.
They brought me a dress from home, they bought beautiful black high-heeled shoes here.
The immediate plans are to return home, finish the 10th and 11th grades, then enter the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
We are military, young patriots.
Where else?
- said a ninth grade graduate, Evgenia Safronenko.
“Even with long nails, I can assemble and disassemble a machine gun: I take it apart in 28 seconds, and I assemble it in 40.”
"Sew for Soldiers"
Since the beginning of the special operation in Russia, volunteer associations have been organized that support soldiers in the combat zone.
Someone writes letters, someone sends clothes and shoes.
And someone communicates with the military and sews tactical devices necessary for the fighters.
According to 27-year-old Muscovite Ruzalia, she has been supporting soldiers since February: she sent money to volunteer organizations and wrote letters.
And since August, she began to sew tactical five-pointers - special seats on which soldiers can sit and lie so as not to catch a cold even in cold weather.
“Since August, I have not only sewed them myself, but also supervised a group of volunteers.
After that, new volunteer girls joined us, and we were able to increase the volume of tailoring to 100 five-pointers a week, ”Ruzalia told RT.
Volunteers buy fabrics and accessories with personal funds and donations, which are transferred by caring people.
According to the volunteer, the maximum cost of a five-pointer is now 250 rubles.
In the first months, the girl invested about 120 thousand rubles in production, and after the second month of tailoring she stopped counting expenses.
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The Sushetsky family also sews things necessary for the fighters.
At the end of February, they were going to go on vacation abroad, but because of the beginning of the NWO, the vacation had to be canceled.
Then Lyudmila Sushetskaya decided to spend the money set aside for the trip for the needs of the NWO participants.
“From a friend, tactical medicine doctor Yuri Yevich, I learned that the military needed lightweight frameless stretchers to evacuate wounded soldiers,” a woman told RT.
- I realized that now it’s not at all an option for us to sit and accumulate money - we need to invest the maximum in the overall victory.
With 100 thousand rubles set aside for vacation, I bought slings and asked my female seamstress friends to sew a stretcher out of them.”
According to Lyudmila, at first the production was located in her apartment.
Even her children helped — nine, 15 and 16 years old.
When more and more volunteers began to come to the apartment, Sushetskaya rented a room.
All materials for sewing are purchased by volunteers at their own expense and donations.
According to Lyudmila, people from abroad also send money: “Russian-speaking students from Germany collected and donated 14,000 rubles for the needs of the project.”
The Angel's Golden Hands project brings together volunteers from 85 cities.
Since the beginning of March, volunteers have sent more than 25,000 stretchers to military personnel, but, according to Sushetskaya, this still does not cover all demand.
As the volunteer adds, the plans are to attach the maximum number of cities to the project in order to fully provide the military with stretchers.
Cats to check
52-year-old Dmitry could not go to the Donbass as a volunteer and set up the production of sapper cats for the fighters.
They are used in the war zone to safely check objects, doors and windows for mines.
“The sapper cat is hooked to an object, they move to a safe distance and, with the help of a rope, they pull the object.
If it is mined, the explosive device will work,” Dmitry explained.
“Cats are also used to evacuate a wounded soldier from shelling.”
The sapper cat, which Dmitry made, is in the hands of a Russian fighter
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The man developed the drawings for these devices himself, as he is engaged in laser cutting for metal.
In addition, the management of the enterprise where Dmitry works allowed him and his colleagues to make sapper cats for the needs of Russian soldiers during working hours.
At the moment, a man and his group of volunteers in Moscow make and send about 1,000 sapper cats to the Donbass every week.
Volunteers from other cities - St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan and Tolyatti - also work according to Dmitry's sketches.
sisters of mercy
In Moscow, at the church hospital of St. Alexis, courses were organized for sisters of mercy to help wounded members of the NWO and civilians in Donbass.
Their graduates can take care of patients in hospitals in Moscow and Donbass.
Since May, about 550 people have become sisters and brothers of mercy.
Courses last an average of two weeks: 20% of the lessons are theoretical, and 80% are practical.
Lessons are held in the evenings and there are usually no more than 15 people in a group.
Participants are told about the spiritual foundations of mercy, the psychological characteristics of the interaction of people in stress, they are taught how to properly handle the patient: how to feed, wash and turn him over.
At the end of the course, participants pass theoretical and practical exams and receive a state-recognised certificate, which entitles them to work as junior medical personnel.
“After completing the courses, they are offered options for hospitals or military hospitals.
You can choose an institution at your place of residence or near work in order to spend less time on the road, ”Elena Dorofeeva-Lyubimova, teacher at the training center of the hospital of St. Alexis, sister of mercy at the St. Demetrius School, told RT.
- Some students, about 20% of the cadets, then go to the DNR and LNR at will.
And most of them go there more than once.”
Every Monday, early in the morning, an ambulance with volunteers leaves the hospital for the Donbass, Alexey Zarov, director and chief physician of the hospital, explained to RT.
And eight days later, on Tuesday, the “shift” returns to Moscow.
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As one of the students, Lyudmila Khamidulina, told RT, she had a desire to help on the day the mobilization was announced, and she began to look for courses on the Internet.
“I knew right away that something had to be done.
There was a very strong inner need to help our boys, who, being wounded, suffer physically and spiritually.
I believe that faith without deed is dead,” Khamidulina said.
"Getting used to peaceful life"
A family from the Taldomsky district of the Moscow region took three orphans from Donetsk under temporary custody in the spring: 17-year-old Yana, ten-year-old Makar and nine-year-old Zakhar.
“A child must grow up in a family, it is impossible without a family,” said Irina, who had four children of her own and another adopted boy.
- On the eve of Easter, they called us and asked: “Will you take three orphans from Donbass?
Two boys and a girl.
We immediately agreed."
As Yana told RT, it was she who made the decision to temporarily place her and her brothers in the family.
“They called me and asked if I wanted a family.
It depended on my answer whether the brothers would be taken away.
I didn't really want to anymore.
But I understood that if I refused, then no one would take the brothers and they would be in a boarding school until the end of the ninth or 11th grade.
I went through this and I don't want them to be like that.
In the end, I agreed - for the sake of the brothers, ”Yana explained.
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According to her, in Donetsk she lived separately with her brothers: they are in a boarding school, and Yana is in a hostel.
Therefore, they arrived in the Moscow region separately: on the eve of Easter they brought a girl, and a couple of days later the boys.
According to Yana, before meeting at the station, she had not seen the brothers for four months - after the start of the SVO, she was taken to Nizhny Novgorod, and the boys to Rostov.
The girl says that she does not regret that she agreed to go to evacuation to Russia and live in a foster family: “The boys are safe, we are all together.
The foster mother is a very good woman.
We can talk heart to heart with her, I trust her.
And the city is very cozy.
I like it here.
But I have friends in Donetsk, my boyfriend.
So I want to go back when it's safer there."