Ukraine toddler written on by mother is finally safe

A Ukrainian toddler whose terrified mother scrawled her name and family contact information on her back as Russia invaded is now safe.

Sasha Makoviy published an Instagram photo of her two-year-old daughter Vira’s back shortly after she had her name and information tattooed on her flesh following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Weeks after escaping Kyiv’s city, the duo have settled in a peaceful French town with Sasha’s mother Anna Klymenko.

Their rented property in Lespignan, close to Béziers in southern France, was provided to her by a family committed to assisting migrants.

Sasha stated that she feared losing her kid in the hours following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 24 decision to attack the neighboring former Soviet republic.

The 33-year-old stated that one of her greatest worries was that Vira would be stolen by Moscow military.

It proved to be justified, with the Ukrainian government later alleging that Russia took children from besieged cities such as Mariupol and transported them across the border.

Sasha stated that she was more prepared for an invasion than the majority of her people in her nation.

She had been fearful of such disastrous action since visiting Russia some years ago and witnessing an underground advertisement proclaiming the country to be the “greatest in the world.”

She stated that everything sounded “a little bit Nazi.”

She suffered from postnatal depression following the birth of Sasha and saw a therapist, where she realized “my deepest fear was losing my freedom and being sent to a concentration camp.”