Soraluze’s neighbor, Mertxe Galarraga, took in Inna Likartsu, a girl from Chernobyl who is now 32 years old, for eight years. They keep in touch. Today, after the Russian attack, she has asked him for help.
TO Mertxe Galarraga her voice breaks when she speaks, she is “nervous”, she confesses. It is not for less. Inna Likartsu, his daughter from Chernobyl (Ukraine) has asked him for help today, worried about the consequences that the Russian attack could have. This is the message that Likartsu, which today has 32 yearshas sent her via WhatsApp: “Mistress, I’m sending you the photos of the girls’ birth certificates. If something happens to us, I’d like you to take care of them.”
This resident of Soraluze (Gipuzkoa) took in the girl from Chernobyl for years. Likartsu came for the first time when she was 10 years old, and until she was 18, she spent the summers at Galarraga’s house. They still keep in touch.
“Today when I heard the news of the Russian attack on the radio, at 07:00, I sent him a message to ask how he was. Ama, I’m home, I’m hearing shots, I’m scared, he has written to me. I told her to be calm, and I asked her if she needed anything, if she could help her. At first, she told me: you can’t help me. But after 10 minutes he has sent me the birth certificates of her daughters “, she explains to us, moved.
Likartsu has two daughters aged 12 and 7 (they are the ones that appear in the photo that accompanies this news). The family lives in Ivankiv, a town of about 10,000 inhabitants, 52 kilometers from the Chernobyl plant and less than 70 from Kiev (it is to the north). According to what Galarraga told us, Inna’s husband was called up weeks ago, but he was still at home today.
“Inna is 32 years old, and I always think, with how young she is what the poor. My heart breaks,” Galarraga tells us.
Source: Eitb
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