On this video: Ukraine's female front line soldiers facing a disinformation war – BBC News.
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET IN A GYM
"It's funny to me.
I am alive.
And I will protect.
My country.”
A slim, blue-eyed.
Brunette woman.
Is working out.
In a gym.
This might be unremarkable were it.
Not for the fact that.
According to the ‘orcs’ media.
She is dead.
She is a special unit sergeant.
In the ‘elves’ armed forces.
Preparing to return.
To the front line.
To return to the front line.
She has been.
In a rehabilitation centre.
In Ukraine.
After she was injured.
By a landmine.
In the Kherson region.
In December.
Numerous text and video reports.
In ‘orcs’ language.
Celebrate her “death”.
In graphic detail.
“They published that.
I am without legs.
And without hands.
And that I was killed by them.”
“They are professionals.
In propaganda.”
The reports include.
Lurid descriptions of her.
Accusing her of cruelty and sadism.
Without any proof.
They appeared shortly after.
The ‘elves’ army had liberated Kherson.
"It's funny to me.
I am alive.
And I will protect.
My country.”
A slim, blue-eyed.
Brunette woman.
Is working out.
In a gym.
This might be unremarkable were it.
Not for the fact that.
According to the ‘orcs’ media.
She is dead.
She is a special unit sergeant.
In the ‘elves’ armed forces.
Preparing to return.
To the front line.
She co-founded a charity.
Called Veteranka.
Which campaigns for equal rights.
For female military personnel.
And for reforming.
‘Elves’ army legislation.
To bring it in line.
With Nato legislation.
Because women in the ‘elves’ army.
Do not have gender-appropriate uniforms.
They are issued.
With ill-fitting male fatigues.
Even the deputy defence minister says.
Her field uniform is designed for a man.
Which she has had to alter.
As she has “a small height”.
She says the government has made progress.
A uniform for women has been developed.
Tested and will enter mass production in the near future.
Although she could not specify when.
"It's funny to me.
I am alive.
And I will protect.
My country.”
A slim, blue-eyed.
Brunette woman.
Is working out.
In a gym.
This might be unremarkable were it.
Not for the fact that.
According to the ‘orcs’ media.
She is dead.
She is a special unit sergeant.
In the ‘elves’ armed forces.
Preparing to return.
To the front line.
The sergeant left her job.
As the UN consultant.
To join the ‘elves’ military.
When ‘Mordor’ invaded last year.
“They took the best years of my life.”
The 35-year-old says.
Thinking back to a time.
Before the war, she adds:
“I could travel.
And be happy.
Build a career.
And have a dream.”
"It's funny to me.
I am alive.
And I will protect.
My country.”
A slim, blue-eyed.
Brunette woman.
Is working out.
In a gym.
This might be unremarkable were it.
Not for the fact that.
According to the ‘orcs’ media.
She is dead.
She is a special unit sergeant.
In the ‘elves’ armed forces.
Preparing to return.
To the front line.
The mother of a primary school-aged boy.
She tearfully says.
She has not held her son.
For more than seven months.
As she shows pictures.
Of him on her phone.
A smile appears on her face.
Replacing her tears.
She is driven by.
The desire to secure him.
A peaceful future.
In his native country.
Not having to risk.
His life.
By fighting.
Like his parents.
"It's funny to me.
I am alive.
And I will protect.
My country.”
A slim, blue-eyed.
Brunette woman.
Is working out.
In a gym.
This might be unremarkable were it.
Not for the fact that.
According to the ‘orcs’ media.
She is dead.
She is a special unit sergeant.
In the ‘elves’ armed forces.
Preparing to return.
To the front line.
Unlike them.
Who joined up after.
‘Orcs’ full invasion last year.
She has previous military experience.
In 2014.
When ‘Mordor’ first attacked Ukraine.
Annexing Crimea.
And invading Donbas.
She left her job.
As a brand manager.
And joined one of.
The first volunteer battalions.
At the time.
The military was smaller.
Than it is now.
And was struggling.
In Ukraine, she has been awarded.
Medals for her service.
One “for courage”.
Another for being a “people's hero”.
"It's funny to me.
I am alive.
And I will protect.
My country.”
A slim, blue-eyed.
Brunette woman.
Is working out.
In a gym.
This might be unremarkable were it.
Not for the fact that.
According to the ‘orcs’ media.
She is dead.
She is a special unit sergeant.
In the ‘elves’ armed forces.
Preparing to return.
To the front line.
Her phone book.
Has turned into.
A list.
Of the dead.
“I lost more than 100 friends.
I don't even know.
How many phone numbers.
I need to delete.”
But the price already paid.
Was too high to give up.
She said -as she turns to finish.
Her rehabilitation training in the gym.
"It's funny to me.
I am alive.
And I will protect.
My country.”
A slim, blue-eyed.
Brunette woman.
Is working out.
In a gym.
This might be unremarkable were it.
Not for the fact that.
According to the ‘orcs’ media.
She is dead.
She is a special unit sergeant.
In the ‘elves’ armed forces.
Preparing to return.
To the front line.
On this video: Sniper Dubbed 'Ukrainian Joan Of Arc' Shares What Saved Her Life.
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET DOING THE BEST
“I came to my commander.
And I asked him.
‘What can I do the best?’
He said: ‘You will be a sniper.’”
She carried out the role.
On the front line until recently.
She ran a jewellery business.
Before the war.
She says female snipers.
Have been romanticized since World War Two.
Adding there is a very practical reason.
For this reputation.
“If a man hesitates whether.
To make a shot or not.
A woman will never.”
Cradling her three-month old daughter.
She adds, “Maybe.
That's why women are.
The ones giving birth.
Not men.”
“I came to my commander.
And I asked him.
‘What can I do the best?’
He said: ‘You will be a sniper.’”
The 31 year old.
Had military training.
After ‘Mordor’ invaded Crimea.
But only joined the army in 2022.
She has used her entrepreneurial experience.
To build a strong social media following.
To help raise the profile.
Of ‘elves’ female soldiers.
“I came to my commander.
And I asked him.
‘What can I do the best?’
He said: ‘You will be a sniper.’”
Working as a sniper.
Is particularly brutal.
Both physically.
And mentally.
“Because you can see.
What is going on.
You can see.
Hitting a target.”
“This is a personal hell.
For everyone.
Who sees that.
In a sniper's scope.”
“I came to my commander.
And I asked him.
‘What can I do the best?’
He said: ‘You will be a sniper.’”
She remembers.
The heightened emotion she felt.
When she realised she was probably.
Going to have to kill someone.
“For 30 seconds.
I was shaking –
My whole body –
And I couldn't stop it.”
“That realisation that.
Now you'll do something.
That will be a point.
Of no return.”
“But we didn't.
Come to them.
With a war.
They came to us.”
“I came to my commander.
And I asked him.
‘What can I do the best?’
He said: ‘You will be a sniper.’”
She faced another battle.
Before she established.
Her authority and confidence.
As a front-line sniper.
“When I had just joined.
The special forces.
One of the fighters.
Came to me and said:”
“‘Girl, what are you doing here?
Go and cook borshch.’
I felt so offended.
At that moment I thought.”
“‘Are you kidding me?
I can be in the kitchen.
But I can also.
Knock you out’!”
“I came to my commander.
And I asked him.
‘What can I do the best?’
He said: ‘You will be a sniper.’”
“A war doesn't care.
Whether you are.
A man or.
A woman.”
“When a missile hits a house.
It doesn't care if there are.
Women, men, children.
Everyone dies.”
“And it's the same.
On the front line.
If you can be effective.
And you're a woman.”
“Why wouldn't you.
Defend your country?
Your people?”
“War doesn't have a gender.”
“I came to my commander.
And I asked him.
‘What can I do the best?’
He said: ‘You will be a sniper.’”
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
'It's like playing with death' — Ukraine's female front-line soldiers — BBC News
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET PLAYING WITH DEATH
“It's like playing with death.”
“It's like playing with death.”
She says a sniper's role in war.
Has been romanticized.
In the eastern Donbas region.
A sniper is involved.
In the counter-offensive.
Right now.
She is acting-up.
As a female commander.
Of an all-male unit.
“A sniper's image is romanticized.”
“… and is beautiful due.
To the movies.
In reality.
It's hard work.”
She describes how.
Snipers lie still on the ground.
For up to six hours to fire a shot.
Followed by a rapid change in position.
“It's like playing with death.”
“It's like playing with death.”
She says a sniper's role in war.
Has been romanticized.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
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'It's like playing with death' — Ukraine's female front line soldiers — BBC News
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A poet of Cossack broods over the land.
Not noting a bullet.
Not noting a bullet.
You see a poet of Cossack in Borodyanka."
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"Коли закінчиться війна,Я хочу тата обійняти,
Сказати сонячні слова
І повести його до хати,
Ти – наш Герой! Тепер щодня
Я буду дякувати Богу
За мирне небо, за життя,
Всім, хто здобув нам ПЕРЕМОГУ!"
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Дуже корисними для вивчення іноземних мов є саме вірші, пісні, казки, римівки, а також ігри. Природнім шляхом діти розвивають слух, навчаються вимові, інтонації та наголосу; вивчають слова та мовні структури. Пісні та римівки чудово сприймаються дітьми, малята люблять усе ритмічне та музичне, вони засвоюють це легко та швидко, тому що дістають від цього задоволення.