Mariupol Worse Than WWII Siege Of Leningrad, Says Ukrainian Holocaust Survivor

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  • Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025

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  • @lornamorgan3575
    @lornamorgan3575 2 года назад +478

    A beautiful strong woman carrying the wisdom of age. Elvira Borts a true survivor, thriving despite her tragedies.
    GNU Vira Hyrych, no one is gone as long as the ripples of their life touch others

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 года назад +2

      what made her so sad is because back in leningrad theres no ukrainian or russian, only soviets.

    • @maximilianemusterfrau1265
      @maximilianemusterfrau1265 2 года назад +5

      @@mozambique9113
      What makes her so sad is her beeing forced to live through a second time in her life a war beeing started by an agressor for no reason, that will costs the lives of up to hundred of thousands, maybe even milions of people, mostly civilians. A war that causes milions of refugees and milions of ruined lives.

    • @anjou6497
      @anjou6497 2 года назад +3

      Your comment is beautiful too. 🧡🌱🍃🦋

    • @jasonwoods3711
      @jasonwoods3711 2 года назад

      Western media just know how to pull your strings !!
      ruclips.net/video/dWaNtAentO4/видео.html&feature=share
      This guy on the other hand ...

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 года назад

      @@maximilianemusterfrau1265 wars are always fought by farmers sons. theres no right or wrong, only whos left. submit or die resisting

  • @bitmasala
    @bitmasala 2 года назад +152

    This lady has so much history to tell the world from such an early age till now. God bless all the people of Ukraine

    • @susannabonke8552
      @susannabonke8552 2 года назад +5

      The streets of Mariupol were her children. May they be revonstructed.

    • @bitmasala
      @bitmasala 2 года назад

      @@susannabonke8552 l would love to sit down with her and chat the day away

  • @pangajavalinaicker7601
    @pangajavalinaicker7601 2 года назад +579

    I cannot find any words to express my heartfelt sadness for the people of Ukraine.

    • @CUbanageNT_24
      @CUbanageNT_24 2 года назад +4

      Fake profile

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 года назад +2

      what made her so sad is because back in leningrad theres no ukrainian or russian, only soviets.

    • @maximilianemusterfrau1265
      @maximilianemusterfrau1265 2 года назад +6

      @@mozambique9113
      What makes her so sad is her beeing forced to live through a second time in her life a war beeing started by an agressor for no reason, that will costs the lives of up to hundred of thousands, maybe even milions of people, mostly civilians. A war that causes milions of refugees and milions of ruined lives.

    • @aardvark1234
      @aardvark1234 2 года назад +3

      Heartfelt Sadness. (and 400 internet likes)

    • @jasonwoods3711
      @jasonwoods3711 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/dWaNtAentO4/видео.html&feature=share
      I believe this guy more !

  • @susangordon1157
    @susangordon1157 2 года назад +424

    No one should have to live through this one time in their life, but twice? Poor woman! Prayers for all the people and troops in Mariupol. 🇺🇦

    • @wom_Bat
      @wom_Bat 2 года назад +53

      One facist took away her ability to have kids, then another destroyed the legacy she built designing mariopol. I'm literally tearing up right now.

    • @Kattar___Sanatani___32
      @Kattar___Sanatani___32 2 года назад +16

      @@wom_Bat yes 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓

    • @elvirach4922
      @elvirach4922 2 года назад

      The tragedy of Odessa
      ruclips.net/video/TZSJMf7DgsI/видео.html

    • @TheCroupier74
      @TheCroupier74 2 года назад +15

      I really want to give her a hug but I’m sure I would break down and cry in her arms.

    • @wom_Bat
      @wom_Bat 2 года назад

      @Johnny Smith Putin worships a nazi named Ivan Ilyin. Putin heled celebration for the facist in 2005 and 2009. Putin also made Ivan Ilyin required reading for regional administrators in 2010. Putin is 100% a nazi worshiping facist dog.... 🐕

  • @magorzatagrodzka5420
    @magorzatagrodzka5420 2 года назад +379

    I am more than grateful for this story being told. May you find the true peace, where you are now, Vira.
    Dear Elvira, your words are heard and testify fiercely against the pure evil the Russians brought to Ukraine.

    • @lizanderson1669
      @lizanderson1669 2 года назад

      you people are all Ukraine from the west that are spinning the narrative around the Azov Nazi regime that killed how many Russian speaking Ukraines in the East people are opening their eyes to it

    • @badmonkey2222
      @badmonkey2222 2 года назад +12

      🇺🇦💛💙🇺🇲💙💛🇺🇦💛💙🇺🇲💙💛🇺🇦

    • @violettap406
      @violettap406 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/pkaOEgCZ3gI/видео.html

    • @maximilianemusterfrau1265
      @maximilianemusterfrau1265 2 года назад +4

      💛💙🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪💙💛

    • @isabelsousa6094
      @isabelsousa6094 2 года назад

      🌻🕊🇺🇦❤🇵🇹🌍🕊🙏🏻🌻🌸

  • @gisobo
    @gisobo 2 года назад +279

    Elvira Borts is such a wise powerful woman. People like her, going through endless sufferings, deliver a strong message to the world. She's a true hero while Putin is just an week fool with too much power.

    • @MrArray1967
      @MrArray1967 2 года назад +19

      *Слава Україні* 💙🇺🇦💛🇺🇦
      *Героям слава* 🙏🏻💪🏻🤝🏻🇩🇰

    • @lordgarion514
      @lordgarion514 2 года назад

      Don't think America or NATO is innocent in all this....
      America, and NATO did in fact promise Russia not to expand NATO.... Which it most definitely did.... And is trying it again......
      This is a Carnegie professor explaining it, from 11 years ago.(4 minute video)
      ruclips.net/video/mciLyG9iexE/видео.html
      You are all being lied to. and we are not as good of a good guy as you are being told.
      America and NATO, are the real reason for this war.
      Stop being sheeple, and definitely stop drinking that Kool-Aid your guzzling down.......

    • @radiowolf3016
      @radiowolf3016 2 года назад

      putin is a Psychopath, nobody does such deliberate things to other human beings but a Psychopath

    • @elaineburnett5230
      @elaineburnett5230 2 года назад

      Putin's weakness will be his legacy.

    • @hotpotato7392
      @hotpotato7392 2 года назад +2

      War in Donbas (before 2022 invasion)
      _'The overall number of confirmed deaths in the war in Donbas, which started on 6 April 2014, was estimated at _*_14,200-14,400_*_ through 31 December 2021, including non-combat military deaths.'_
      *_P.S._*_ We'll have to wait and see how much more when all the madness ends._

  • @thenightking7167
    @thenightking7167 2 года назад +926

    I know that words are often meaningless in times of extreme tragedy. All I can say is that I am incredibly sorry and heartbroken that you have had to experience these horrific events, dear Elvira.

    • @lappi4026
      @lappi4026 2 года назад +25

      I can´t say it better bro.

    • @nadiahope1175
      @nadiahope1175 2 года назад +18

      Words fail me...🥺🥀

    • @z6445
      @z6445 2 года назад

      We know that Ukrainians helped the Germans. This is fact not opinion

    • @saba6502
      @saba6502 2 года назад +35

      This story is truly heart-breaking. But Elvira still is such a strong, wonderful woman! May she find true peace and consolation during her last years. And Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Please accept my deepest condolences on behalf of the killing of your journalist Vira!

    • @elvirach4922
      @elvirach4922 2 года назад

      The tragedy of Odessa
      ruclips.net/video/TZSJMf7DgsI/видео.html

  • @KL-nj7vi
    @KL-nj7vi 2 года назад +187

    RIP this is heartbreaking on every conceivable level. As much as humanly possible we share your grief

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 года назад

      what made her so sad is because back in leningrad theres no ukrainian or russian, only soviets.

    • @maximilianemusterfrau1265
      @maximilianemusterfrau1265 2 года назад +2

      What makes her so sad is her beeing forced to live through a second time in her life a war beeing started by an agressor for no reason, that will costs the lives of up to hundred of thousands, maybe even milions of people, mostly civilians. A war that causes milions of refugees and milions of ruined lives.

  • @icare6076
    @icare6076 2 года назад +182

    Heartbreaking beyond words. And yet a heartbreak that is so important for the world to hear about and feel and respond to.

  • @wendywilson4527
    @wendywilson4527 2 года назад +229

    How heartbreaking. She has seen so much suffering and should have peace comfort at her time of life. The devastation of the city and its occupants is beyond evil. Unjustifiable.

    • @wanderung7376
      @wanderung7376 2 года назад +5

      How could be people so heartless? What they did so inhumane. it's unacceptable.

    • @richyoung4051
      @richyoung4051 2 года назад

      @@pivomanslovensko the citizens didnt ask for this nor have anything to do with this. they dont deserve that. aim for the putin the fucking madman causing this

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 года назад

      what made her so sad is because back in leningrad theres no ukrainian or russian, only soviets.

    • @blueberryjared
      @blueberryjared 2 года назад

      @@pivomanslovensko I think we should wipe Russia out completely. Russia has been a disease on this earth for way too long.

    • @sergeikhripun
      @sergeikhripun 2 года назад

      Millions of people died during the Siege Of Leningrad which continues for over a year and Mariupol was taken in 2 months. There wouldn't have been so much destruction if the Azov Ukro-Nazis weren't using civilians as a human shield.

  • @Sajuuk
    @Sajuuk 2 года назад +355

    Imagine seeing your life's work destroyed around you, knowing you wont live long enough to see it rebuilt again. Knowing the mark you made on the world, because you couldn't have children, has been destroyed, forever.

    • @Nancy-mi3xe
      @Nancy-mi3xe 2 года назад +35

      Heartbreaking.

    • @TheVoiceOfReason93
      @TheVoiceOfReason93 2 года назад +25

      Well, it had been rebuilt once before, it can be rebuilt again. I suppose that's one solace they can take with them to the grave. Now we just have to make sure their hopes won't be in vain.

    • @marakujer7269
      @marakujer7269 2 года назад +35

      i thought that, too. This whole clip touched me in a way that i will remember it. She'll live on in this clip, in the memory of those who watched it and presumably in the chronicles of Mariupol due to her construction work.

    • @Aisatsana1971
      @Aisatsana1971 2 года назад +25

      The mark she has made on the world has not been destroyed.

    • @MrArray1967
      @MrArray1967 2 года назад +15

      *Слава Україні* 💙🇺🇦💛🇺🇦
      *Героям слава* 🙏🏻💪🏻🤝🏻🇩🇰

  • @jeffsiegwart
    @jeffsiegwart 2 года назад +104

    My thoughts go out to Vira and her family. She is a hero!

  • @prody666
    @prody666 2 года назад +126

    "There's so much blood on your hands that no god will ever forgive you."

    • @mariestelabasilio4664
      @mariestelabasilio4664 2 года назад +1

      yes

    • @OldSkoolWax
      @OldSkoolWax 2 года назад +3

      have you seen the amount of blood on Gods hands?

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 года назад +4

      what made her so sad is because back in leningrad theres no ukrainian or russian, only soviets.

    • @noodlesoup2281
      @noodlesoup2281 2 года назад

      No such thing as god. if their was, more blood has been spilt in his name than anyone else in history.

    • @HB-mr7xz
      @HB-mr7xz 2 года назад +4

      Don't blame God. All wars started with human greed for power and money.

  • @Floundpul
    @Floundpul 2 года назад +42

    I took a prhase of the lady, the more relevant for me: "There's so much blood on your hands now that no God will ever forgive you". This is a truth and a sacrament. God bless and save Ukraine.

  • @edelweiss2971
    @edelweiss2971 2 года назад +457

    Never ever forget Elvira Borts. Never ever forget Vira Hyrych. True Heroes that we have to remember forever. Slava Ukraine. Rest in peace, Vira!

    • @vyh-186
      @vyh-186 2 года назад +26

      Amen.
      Slava Ukraini 🙏🇺🇦💙💛

    • @danielm.4346
      @danielm.4346 2 года назад +10

      @DV8 ***
      It's not "Russia".
      It's some Russians.

    • @ll647
      @ll647 2 года назад +15

      Ukraine must win in the name of her martyrs.

    • @edelweiss2971
      @edelweiss2971 2 года назад +21

      It is and was two very beautiful women that life was not fair to. God have mercy on their destinies and their souls. The devil in the form of Hitler and Putin hurt them a lot

    • @edelweiss2971
      @edelweiss2971 2 года назад +28

      @@danielm.4346 Well. It's similar to The Holocaust " It's not Germans. It's some Germans. But we all know that millions are responsible. For their own acting and as a collective. I feel guilty for my grandparents generation even thou I wasn't even born then.

  • @helveticaification
    @helveticaification 2 года назад +63

    What a terrible story Elvira has to tell, and what a terrible conclusion: so sensitively captured and told - by yet another victim of wickedness. They will both be remembered by others, thanks to Vira, through their linked stories. I won't forget Elvira Borts or Vira Hyrych.

  • @rsax04
    @rsax04 2 года назад +106

    I have no words that can express my feelings on how my heart breaks for her and those in the Ukraine suffering from this Madman. Sadly we as humans did not learn lessons from the Past or this would not be happening. We have much we could learn from her in this interview. Many God Bless her and keep her safe.

    • @CUbanageNT_24
      @CUbanageNT_24 2 года назад +3

      How many of the same paragraphs will I see on different videos on this war?

    • @ZhekUA
      @ZhekUA 2 года назад

      Must to admit that it is not the fault of just one madman, but the whole russian society (they do not misinformed, they bloodthirst it)

  • @Pe-S
    @Pe-S 2 года назад +25

    Oh Elvira.. I'm so sorry. So sorry for all you've been put through. I wish I could give you the biggest hug. And RIP Vira, thank you for telling the world this story.

  • @priscillazietsman1300
    @priscillazietsman1300 2 года назад +78

    This is absolutely heart wrenching💔💔💔

  • @isabellrc
    @isabellrc 2 года назад +49

    This is a real testament to what wars do to humankind; living through such fear, loss & devastation. It’s unimaginable, yet here sits, but one of many who can testify to such atrocities!

    • @nadyatzurupa6042
      @nadyatzurupa6042 2 года назад +1

      Именно это должны видеть 9 мая все россияне,а не позорный парад!

    • @Officialgamr-e6u
      @Officialgamr-e6u 2 года назад

      Cannot be more true..

  • @crystal2484
    @crystal2484 2 года назад +74

    Omg, Vira was the journalist killed in Kyiv? I have seen her work. And Elvira, thank you for telling us that Putin is such a terror and Mariupol is worse than WW2. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    • @radiowolf3016
      @radiowolf3016 2 года назад

      putin is a Psychopath, nobody does such deliberate things to other human beings but a Psychopath

  • @birbluv9595
    @birbluv9595 2 года назад +15

    This is heartbreaking beyond words. That eloquent, beautiful Holocaust survivor, and the brave reporter who died after recording her story. How much sadness and tragedy can this world stand?

    • @yahayacl5654
      @yahayacl5654 2 года назад

      Evil putin murdered msVira...!!!!

  • @gregorpettersson6617
    @gregorpettersson6617 2 года назад +17

    Thank you Vira. RIP

  • @badmonkey2222
    @badmonkey2222 2 года назад +26

    What a charming lady and she's been through so much in her life, my best wishes to her that she will finally find peace in her final days. My ❤ goes out to Vera's family may she rest in peace. Slava!!! 🇺🇦

  • @Dedded00000
    @Dedded00000 2 года назад +71

    What a beautiful soul! And rest in peace Vira!

  • @yvartje4658
    @yvartje4658 2 года назад +24

    These people, who have endured unbearable things who just want to live a normal live and die peacefully are again put through these kind of horrors again. It’s so sad

  • @ifyouliketosee8173
    @ifyouliketosee8173 2 года назад +30

    What a WONDERFUL WOMAN!!!❤

  • @horsthotzenplotz3321
    @horsthotzenplotz3321 2 года назад +18

    There are no proper words to say how sad and heartbreaking it is.
    I will never understand how war starters can live with the results of their war. It must be something missing in their brain.
    I send love to all people who suffer from this terrible war. ♥️ 🇺🇦 🇩🇪

  • @storiesfromhinterland
    @storiesfromhinterland 2 года назад +31

    ❤❤💛💙❤Elvira❤💙💛❤❤ and rest in peace Vira. Thank you for this story.

  • @brooklynlass2196
    @brooklynlass2196 2 года назад +11

    Imagine. Living through the Holocaust "decades ago (!)".....and now this.
    Freaking unbelievable.

    • @U.H8
      @U.H8 2 года назад

      💙💛❤️‍🔥

  • @zoso73
    @zoso73 2 года назад +34

    RIP Vira Hyrych.

    • @wraithface4410
      @wraithface4410 2 года назад +1

      She's still alive

    • @bens4801
      @bens4801 2 года назад

      @@wraithface4410 Seems like you didn't finish the video

  • @shilogirl2350
    @shilogirl2350 2 года назад +78

    This is the most heart wrenching story I have heard since this senseless war was started by a psychotic megalomaniac. Thanks to this beautiful old lady Elvira who summed up the wasteless loss of life and destruction itself and the inhumanity of a people enmass when misinformed by their leaders. This was a telling story reported by Vira who herself lost her life in the shelling. 💔💔

    • @whitecat3923
      @whitecat3923 2 года назад

      You wouldn't believe it: in Mariupol, a lot of residents still believe that it was Zelensky who bombed their city!! And on some balconies are self-painted posters: "Our family trusts Putin"

    • @normamimosa5991
      @normamimosa5991 2 года назад

      This war started by a psychotic megalomaniac? You mean Joe Biden. This is Biden's war against Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy. The most pressing reason for the Russian SMO was the Ukrainian/Azov genocide of Donbass Russian civilians. To date over 14,000 Russian men, women and children have been killed by that shelling. Putin relentlessly asked for diplomacy to stop the shelling before and after the Minsk Agreement. The West refused. Ukraine signed the Minsk Agreement that guaranteed the end of the shelling and independent status for the Donbass Russians. Corrupt Ukrainian oligarch rulers, including Zelensky, and the interloping US, ignored the agreement. The shelling continued.
      Hitler and his henchmen attempted to hide their genocide of the Jews from the world, but not Ukraine with its genocide of Donbass (Donetsk and Luhansk) Russians. Here's a glimpse for you. Perhaps after you have viewed this video, you will be motivated to find out the truth about the Ukraine Government, the history, players and their motives leading to this conflict, starting with the US bloody Maidan Coup in Ukraine.
      twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1518074286929588224?s=20&t=ULrXAt0Gbka1yjSne4j2Ug

  • @silversurfermusicco5263
    @silversurfermusicco5263 2 года назад +116

    This gives me chills. Too much to take in suffering for what? Another human man gods ego.

    • @codaalive5076
      @codaalive5076 2 года назад +2

      Do Iraq, Lybia or Afghanistan ever give you chills?

    • @silversurfermusicco5263
      @silversurfermusicco5263 2 года назад +4

      @@codaalive5076 all of these wars are bad. I work with a afgahni guy who lost everything. People shpuld be thankful for what they have in uk

    • @codaalive5076
      @codaalive5076 2 года назад

      @@silversurfermusicco5263 Thankful for destruction. Yeah, be them just for one day. Remember Bowie's song

  • @officialWWM
    @officialWWM 2 года назад +10

    Wow, what a moving and powerful story. That poor woman has lived a life! My greatest respect to this beautiful woman and the journalist who made this story. No matter what happens, there are no winners in this war :/

  • @Rose-hi2pn
    @Rose-hi2pn 2 года назад +66

    My heart and prayers to Elvira and Vira and everyone in Ukraine and GOD protect them.

    • @JourneyOnLife
      @JourneyOnLife 2 года назад +2

      🙏❤🕊🇺🇦🕊❤🙏

  • @Ghost_MGM
    @Ghost_MGM 2 года назад +23

    I just can't stop crying. My grandparents were Galician-Germans. It kind of like feels that history repeats itself. With all the horrors it brings. I also want to thank you VIRA HYRYCH and your Team for this heartbreaking story. May you rest in peace. Salute to all those who already gave their lives in this war.

    • @whitecat3923
      @whitecat3923 2 года назад

      "Salute" is definitiv ein falsches Wort hierfür!.. BEILEID!!

  • @madmikesworld5713
    @madmikesworld5713 2 года назад +11

    It takes a lot to silence me and not only verbally but my inner voice…I am silenced.

  • @wernertognetti5956
    @wernertognetti5956 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for uploading this report. I'm feeling so sad for this old lady who witnessed now two horrific wars. I hope and wish all the best for her and every other Ukrainian citizen. We stand with Ukraine.

  • @tyczekp
    @tyczekp 2 года назад +24

    This is heavy.

  • @j.c187
    @j.c187 2 года назад +15

    Broke my heart in the first 16 seconds. Noone should ever half to go through what this woman has or any ukraine citizens. Needless senseless killing

  • @stefeniedavidmusic
    @stefeniedavidmusic 2 года назад +36

    What is wrong with this world? Really! What the hell is going on? I can't believe this is happening............and not just in Ukraine. All over the world. Insanity.

    • @annihilationHaven
      @annihilationHaven 2 года назад

      It is tough to figure out without having some time to look into it. I didn't have my first clue until I was 29 years old, in 2009. I really resented the world for not telling me for a while there... we're working for the benefit of the wrong people and for DEAD wrong reasons.

    • @whitecat3923
      @whitecat3923 2 года назад

      It's quite simple: a boy bullied in his childhood was gifted by his predecessor(alcoholic Yelzyn) a big country and unlimitless govern, but the boy became sick in his head and wanted to realize his pathological fantasies about an former "Russian Empire"!..like Ivan the Terrible some centuries ago..🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

    • @scaryclouds1403
      @scaryclouds1403 2 года назад

      Its been happening for a while now

    • @stefeniedavidmusic
      @stefeniedavidmusic 2 года назад

      @@scaryclouds1403So true

  • @kaseichan100
    @kaseichan100 2 года назад +9

    RIP, Vira, who covered this precious story told by t the elderly woman being one of holocaust survivors. Thank you so much, Vira.

  • @Nancy-mi3xe
    @Nancy-mi3xe 2 года назад +60

    God bless and protect our elder who has survived so much. She speaks the truth. And bless the journalist who produced this story and died in this obscene war. My Putin go out the same way as Hitler, Ceausescu, and all other despots who are overthrown, and then face the wrath of the people they injured. Tanchumin.

    • @Dr.Yalex.
      @Dr.Yalex. 2 года назад

      Putting our life in the hands on "god" is the main problem of humanity!
      People are killing and raping and beating and cutting people - not God, or god or gods... PEOPLE are the devils. Russians go to church and with tears on their faces and lit candles in their hands they pray that God helps them win a war by sending men to rape and kill children in Ukraine... God?
      Enough BS... PEOPLE USE YOUR BRAINS!

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx 2 года назад

      Hitler went out by his own hand before Berlin was taken.

    • @U.H8
      @U.H8 2 года назад

      ❤️‍🔥💛💙❤️‍🔥💙💛❤️‍🔥💙💛❤️‍🔥💙💛❤️‍🔥

  • @monadovinaprodaniuk3437
    @monadovinaprodaniuk3437 2 года назад +8

    This need go viral. My heart breaks and my prayers for all. This lovely lady survived seige of Leningrad and now Mariupol. Also condolences to family of the journalist of this story. Слава Україні

    • @Izzology
      @Izzology 2 года назад +1

      I agree this needs to go viral

  • @milkbowl557
    @milkbowl557 2 года назад +17

    I don't tear easily
    But when you look at history
    It's very sad sometimes
    And we are in one of those times

  • @anyothername2360
    @anyothername2360 2 года назад +11

    This is one story I will always remember. I´m watching this war from the sidelines. From the safety and comfort of my home, I´m trying to understand, to somehow wrap my mind around how and why this is happening. There are so many clips, reports, interviews that make an impression, still I know that I forget most of them within weeks if not hours. They merge together into an "overall image". This one will stay, intact, shining and painful.

    • @U.H8
      @U.H8 2 года назад

      ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🇸🇪

  • @marc-andrebrunet5386
    @marc-andrebrunet5386 2 года назад +23

    She do not have kids..
    I feel like I want to take care of her..
    It's very hard to comment on this..
    She's precious.
    Thank you..
    Slava Ukraini from Canada ❤🇨🇦🤝🇺🇦💛💙

  • @wanderung7376
    @wanderung7376 2 года назад +5

    I'm so sad 😔 the agony you experienced grandma..

  • @ll647
    @ll647 2 года назад +24

    No human being should speak after hearing these words, but simply cry silently.

    • @ll647
      @ll647 2 года назад

      @Mosella ❤️‍🩹

  • @alsteeves2044
    @alsteeves2044 2 года назад +15

    It is impossible to imagine let alone feel the pain her and so many others have experienced. Twice in one lifetime. The heart bleeds

    • @whitecat3923
      @whitecat3923 2 года назад

      Imagine how some hundreds of civilians, the wounded the fighters of Azov are still doing in the Catacombs under the "Azovstal" now!!

    • @alsteeves2044
      @alsteeves2044 2 года назад

      @@whitecat3923 Why? The topic at hand is in relation to one old woman's struggle, through one set of circumstances that befell her and how she is now experiencing the same sort of tragedy, yet again.
      Just to stay on topic and of course not to minimize today's events and their effects on people in close contact to said events. Capiche?

  • @kay244
    @kay244 2 года назад +9

    This lady is so right

  • @amywernet577
    @amywernet577 2 года назад +10

    Oh Miss Bort...
    My deepest love and admiration for your ability to endure.
    May you have quiet peace through your enduring strengths. If only our collective energy could possess humanity into those who have or will be apart of these atrocities. I know we wish this to stop, if only wishes meant something...
    Thank you for telling these truths.
    With gratitude and gifts of energy in your perseverence XOXO

  • @ahtoshkaa
    @ahtoshkaa 2 года назад +22

    And here I thought that Russians were using missiles on apartment buildings at random... This last attack seems to be very deliberate.

    • @rhoddryice5412
      @rhoddryice5412 2 года назад +5

      Was my thought too when I first heard about it and Vira Hyrych the only(?) one killed. Looks deliberate to me.

    • @MeriLizzie
      @MeriLizzie 2 года назад +1

      Being a journalist in Russia is a dangerous job. Being one in Ukraine when Russia is attacking is even more dangerous. If I remember correctly roughly 4 or 5(?) journalists/camera operators etc., have been killed in just the last 3 months of this “Special Military Operation”!

  • @MelioraCogito
    @MelioraCogito 2 года назад +7

    So heart breaking but absolutely necessary to hear Elvira's testimony. I have rarely been moved to tears by the coverage of this wholly unnecessary war - this was one of the few exceptions.
    To hear the testimony of someone who survived the siege of Leningrad as a 6 year old child, by the real "Nazi's", only to be told by her own country wo/men some 80 years later (I assume she was born in or around Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg), that she needed to be "de-Nazified" in her peaceful pre-war city of Mariupol, Ukraine, because a pouting small man in Moscow with an inferiority complex, was no longer satisfied with spontaneously lifting up the t-shirts of small vulnerable boys and kissing them on the belly in Red Square.
    May she and her husband live long enough to see Ukraine liberated from the _Czar Vladimir Vladimirovich 'Putin the Small's'_ Russian Nazi-orc horde.
    _A warring nation Ukraine is not, though a nation of warriors she has been forced to become._
    🟦 Слава Україні! (Slava Ukraini!) - Glory to Ukraine!
    🟨 Героям слава! (Heroiam slava!) - Glory to the heroes!

  • @ryancap1188
    @ryancap1188 2 года назад +15

    she better than all of us knows what she is talking about, living under this criminal invasions, separated by nearly a century but having the same purpose total amalition of there neighbors, slava Ukraine land of the brave

  • @AristarchusSamos
    @AristarchusSamos 2 года назад +8

    This was very painful to see, and the last part of the death of the journalist was an expected shock. A person who survived the holocaust and WWII saying that this now is even worse, can give all of us an idea of how terrible the situation is. And she perfectly summarised the actions of Putin: "There's so much blood on your hands now that no god will ever forgive you"!

  • @richardaustin735
    @richardaustin735 2 года назад +57

    Just an old women for some! But Elvira Borts is the voice of the whole world who really know what is going on. She has more wisdom and love than anyone I have ever heard speak about this senseless and disgusting invasion of a sovereign nation. Glory to Ukraine.

    • @richardaustin735
      @richardaustin735 2 года назад +1

      @@moeluv Sure troll! Go live in Mariupol and clean up the mess left behind. Watch out for the bombs and missiles!

    • @Dx-Dm
      @Dx-Dm 2 года назад

      @@moeluv Russian troll detected.

    • @U.H8
      @U.H8 2 года назад

      @@moeluv 🤖❌you are!

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 года назад

      what made her so sad is because back in leningrad theres no ukrainian or russian, only soviets.

    • @MsAmgrace
      @MsAmgrace Год назад

      ​@@mozambique9113no, in Leningrad so to speak soviet power made everything to kill as much as possible own people, and rasizm always was there, any " friendship" between russians and ukraniens not existed at that time, only propagande

  • @rikkafe6050
    @rikkafe6050 2 года назад +23

    No person should have to experience the atrocities of war once in a lifetime let alone twice. Yet still your beautiful soul shines. You are truly an extraordinary person who's company angles would be humbled to keep. My heart reaches out to you. As for the worm putin let him squirm back to the mud pool of his origins where hopefully he will slowly choke on the detritus of his twisted thoughts.

  • @vyh-186
    @vyh-186 2 года назад +49

    “DeNazifying” is just an excuse for Russia in this invasion coz all the answer is @2:27. I heard about the same thing happened in Belarus as well (a testimony in a Church from a couple who fled to the US from Belarus).
    Thank you Elvira Borts for the amazing yet very sad story. May Vira Hyrych Rest In Peace and the story will be forever remembered. 🙏💙💛🇺🇦😔

    • @vivviedarling9336
      @vivviedarling9336 2 года назад

      Anyone who doesn't want to capitulate to Russia are Nazis according to them. In the Winter War, Russian justification for invading Finland was "to rid the land of fascists". Not about increasing territory and population to be turned into slaves to their state, of course not.

    • @U.H8
      @U.H8 2 года назад +3

      ❤️‍🔥💛💙❤️‍🔥💛💙❤️‍🔥

    • @whitecat3923
      @whitecat3923 2 года назад

      What?? 🤔 There is definitely neither war, nor "denazifying" in Belarus now!! But there is lots of russian war machines there!! Ukraine was and is being bombed from Belarus all the time, too!...

    • @Slavaisusukhrystu
      @Slavaisusukhrystu 2 года назад +1

      @@whitecat3923 They're talking about World War 2, or about a Ukrainian refugee who fled to Belarus

  • @ActiveDodger
    @ActiveDodger 2 года назад +3

    This elderly lady has experienced so much in her life. Brilliant lady. Hope she gets to see an end to the war. RIP Vira Hyrych. An important story that will be seen for generations.

  • @nicoletaoniga4272
    @nicoletaoniga4272 2 года назад +8

    Im so sorry! 😢😢🙏❤️

  • @ywsfuj
    @ywsfuj 2 года назад +12

    In a normal country, if you scratch someone’s car, you are going to pay for body work. What a world likes when soldiers kill civilians and destroy building everyday even we are watching? I feel the pain of the Ukrainian.

    • @sveng3192
      @sveng3192 2 года назад

      And the Mid-Eastern countries destroyed by Western powers during the last 3 decades

  • @TheVoiceOfReason93
    @TheVoiceOfReason93 2 года назад +65

    That is very much a given. Even in Leningrad the Soviets were able to resupply/reinforce the city and keep it from falling to the Nazis (Although not enough to prevent 2/3 of the city from starving/freezing/bombed to death). Mariupol is not only completely cut-off but practically atomised in a way not even Leningrad was.

    • @rulerofroombas1443
      @rulerofroombas1443 2 года назад

      @Liza Muster ok bot

    • @Dr.Yalex.
      @Dr.Yalex. 2 года назад +3

      Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.
      -- Abbé Pierre

    • @TheVoiceOfReason93
      @TheVoiceOfReason93 2 года назад +5

      @Anthony God knows what sort of self-rationalisation he's using to get over the cognitive dissonance of inflicting the same horrors that took his family members.

    • @Rouge55
      @Rouge55 2 года назад

      Yeah lies check out Patrick Lancaster RUclips page. Yeah Nazis were giving aid and food for Russians. Second fact most of Mariupol is a Russian speaking city. 3 neo Nazis of the Azov batallion used women and children as shields at the steel plant.

    • @CUbanageNT_24
      @CUbanageNT_24 2 года назад

      These scum pieces of shit don't care about historical accuracy, but rather the +10 emotional points they get for each piece they write within the public eye of things.

  • @albifreedom9725
    @albifreedom9725 2 года назад +14

    I've heard so many stories of the hardships,pain,suffering that the Ukrainians both Civilians and Soilders are going through in these senseless atrocities of a war they never wanted but hearing her story really breaks my heart so much so no amount of words can ever fill the depths of these wonderful and beautiful people. She is an amazing women and even at her age she tells it like no other. I pray that one day she can find some peace afyer all she went through at her younger age and what she is going through now. May the report who lost her life RIP.🙏. This war has to stop and Putin and Russia must pay a heavy price for it. God bless the people of Ukarian and they Russian soilders who refuse to fight. Let there be peace on Earth🙏♥️

  • @KptLehmann100
    @KptLehmann100 2 года назад +47

    Long live free Ukraine and all her patriots. I hope that after all the suffering, when they have won the war, Ukraine will hold a massive country wide Victory and Remembrance Day. I hope Elvira lives to see that. I look forward to seeing it too. 🇺🇦

    • @briancox3050
      @briancox3050 2 года назад +6

      That's a very sincere comment indeed. I hope too to see a Ukraine Victory.

    • @oasis1282
      @oasis1282 2 года назад +1

      No

  • @irenec2863
    @irenec2863 2 года назад +4

    Elvira Borts survived the cruelty of the Holocaust and later became a geologist and engineer who helped plan the modern-day city of Mariupol only to see it destroyed, yet still you see her strength. Thank you, Vira Hyrych, for telling her story. Two strong women, trying to make the world a better place. May you rest in peace, Vira Hyrych, and may you & your husband find peace, Elvira Borts, amidst the chaos of this horrible war.

  • @warhog4300
    @warhog4300 2 года назад +9

    That lady was so sweet! How could a person not listen to her plees.??? This War is stupid pure senseless......

  • @carsten9168
    @carsten9168 2 года назад +11

    What a heartfelt interview with Elvira Borts, a Holocaust survivior and in the 900-day seige of Leningrad by Nazi Germany ! Elvira suffered so much more than any normal person unlike the coward, war criminal, butcher bastard Hitler Putin. Like Elvira said bitterly 'There is so much blood on Putin's hands that no God can ever forgive you' ! I read a lot and saw numerous newsreels on the Leningrad siege which caused the deaths by mostly starvation of 2 million people ! A short story there from a 5-year old girl in winter 1942 :- ' We were all huddled in the cellar in the dead of winter. It was freezing cold with only our thin coats and some blankets to stay warm. Mother could only some boil water from the ice shards. We had not eaten for several days. Then granny saw a rat in a corner, took a stick and killed it. We boiled the rat whole including its tail. Everybody had rat soup that day' ! War criminal Hitler Putin's own 4-year old little brother died of typhoid in that Leningrad seige. Did he forget his history with his hideous crimes now ? It is said 'History repeats itself when you forget'. Lest we forget ! We grieve for brave RFE journalist Vera Hyrych killed by a Russian bomb shrapnel recently. We appreciate her magnificent work and may God cherish her soul. RIP Vera. Slava Ukrainya from Malaysia !

    • @MilaPriima
      @MilaPriima 2 года назад

      the only difference is that Leningrad was defended by the Soviet army, and there was no fighting in the city. and in Mariupol, defenders placed their firing positions in residential buildings, maternity hospitals and schools. The Ukrainian army used its citizens as human shields. no army in the world does this, except for terrorists

    • @lilianplam7254
      @lilianplam7254 2 года назад

      Putin doesn't have any brother. He was born in Georgia. Official biography is a fake story. He was addopted by his relatives from Leningrad (Sankt Peterburg).
      It's meaningless to remember him something connected to Leningrad, because he has not real connection with city's history. Putin is carrying a special mission like Hitler at his time. And his journey is not over yet....

  • @mausammallick170
    @mausammallick170 2 года назад +11

    Rest in peace... Elvira ❤️... 😭😭🥺

  • @BlueSky-go4rb
    @BlueSky-go4rb 2 года назад +2

    Solutes to that courageous old lady 👍👍👍

  • @scottyagodich7319
    @scottyagodich7319 2 года назад +7

    GOD BLESS THIS WOMAN and UKRAINE 🙏🇺🇦

  • @lightblue254
    @lightblue254 2 года назад +8

    Rest in peace Vira, and thank you to this intelligent person for telling us what to do. Pass the word. Putin must stop this massacre now, silence means accomplices.

  • @horstmorst9132
    @horstmorst9132 2 года назад +7

    so sad

  • @connorqb1241
    @connorqb1241 2 года назад +6

    Still weird how a lot of other civilians from Mariupol have very different stories about the Russian soldiers and say the Ukrainian soldiers used civilian buildings as military positions to try and get the Russians to fire at those positions. Also, civilians confirmed the Azov battalion shot civilians in the back when trying to flee. (Source: independent frontline reporter Patrick lancaster). To add, the siege of Leningrad cost the lives of 1,3 million people, not even comparable in the slightest sense, very weird to make that comparison if she knows what happened in that city.

    • @bboyo8307
      @bboyo8307 2 года назад +3

      To say that it is worse than leningrad is pure propaganda. War is war but this comparison is not true

  • @marykelly9698
    @marykelly9698 2 года назад +18

    God bless you darling but God will never forgive these people shame on them , I keep you and your free country ukraine in my prayers 🙏 ❤

  • @SwampmasterZ
    @SwampmasterZ 2 года назад +4

    I doubt that very seriously

  • @Dr.Yalex.
    @Dr.Yalex. 2 года назад +19

    "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
    -- Martin Luther King Jr.

    • @claesmansson9070
      @claesmansson9070 2 года назад

      Ok,my life began to end 9 months before I was born!!!

    • @dejuanrobert
      @dejuanrobert 2 года назад

      He was killed by FBI terrorists. You might want to not quote him in the future.

    • @Dr.Yalex.
      @Dr.Yalex. 2 года назад +1

      @@claesmansson9070 no. you life began when you entered this wold by coming out of your mother's womb (or an incubator) and literally taking your first breath!
      Pls, don't confuse womb pre-life and life.

    • @dejuanrobert
      @dejuanrobert 2 года назад

      " I consider war an evil. I Must cry out when I see war escalated at any point", ("opposes vietnam war"). MLK JR

    • @claesmansson9070
      @claesmansson9070 2 года назад

      Dont know M.L.K.jr.,just use my logic sense.

  • @chadstein9457
    @chadstein9457 2 года назад +1

    Bless her, she's been through so much.

  • @whitefam2000
    @whitefam2000 2 года назад +28

    One tyrant took away her ability to have children, and another has taken away her ability to leave a legacy of work for others to enjoy. The poor woman who did the interview also had her life cut short by a small minded Tyrant named Putin(little Napoleon). So tragic Cannot wait for the promises from the bible to be fulfilled Rev 21:1-5 After that happens, no more tyrants, just one big harmonious family throughout the earth under god's rule. May it come soon.

  • @Clan635
    @Clan635 2 года назад +3

    I have no words 😶 such a wise woman she suffered the Holocaust and now this! God Bless you my heart is torn to pieces listening to this story! They do not deserve this 🥲🥲🥲🥲

  • @expatmousse5196
    @expatmousse5196 2 года назад +24

    “There is so much blood on your hands now that no God will forgive you” DO YOU HEAR THIS PUTIN?

    • @jod6984
      @jod6984 2 года назад +2

      @@moeluv JUST STOP, MAN. STOP.

    • @k4nd17r33
      @k4nd17r33 2 года назад +1

      @@jod6984 it's no use to try to fight trolls

    • @duanedrummond2685
      @duanedrummond2685 2 года назад

      I admire your spirit, but please before mentioning God and war please read the old testament. It's not that simple...

    • @duanedrummond2685
      @duanedrummond2685 2 года назад

      @Liza Muster ohh, an American speaks!!! Or are you Russian disinformation? There's too many commie's here to want to hear a rational statement. Be careful, RUclips might censor you for having a factual point of view!!!

    • @expatmousse5196
      @expatmousse5196 2 года назад

      @@duanedrummond2685 and how do you know I’ve not read it? Its not my statement it’s the statement of what was said in the video, Putin in my eyes thinks himself a worthy man, as a orthodox Christian he should be the one to stand by the Bible

  • @captainjj7184
    @captainjj7184 2 года назад +2

    *15 civilian hostages for every one tonne of food swap... oh, the BRAVERY!*

    • @DavidRodriguez-er4rq
      @DavidRodriguez-er4rq 2 года назад

      Nazis will be Nazis. These people are deceived, tricked, and lied to. All the propaganda and brainwashing by the mainstream media. Keep spreading the TRUTH. God bless

  • @oceanwaves9584
    @oceanwaves9584 2 года назад +14

    Just heartbreaking 💔
    Shame on Russia! 🤬
    These demons must be destroyed!
    Rip Vira 💞🙏
    Russia killed so many journalists because they don't want the truth out
    Glory to Ukraine! 💞🇺🇦💞

    • @jod6984
      @jod6984 2 года назад

      @@moeluv STOP. Alive and bearing witness. AS YOU ARE.

  • @HenryPhD
    @HenryPhD 2 года назад +1

    Anger becomes sadness no grief can match.

  • @joyglocker8318
    @joyglocker8318 2 года назад +5

    Sad. So sad.

  • @susannabonke8552
    @susannabonke8552 2 года назад +1

    When siege started I was paralyzed.. Good god collect the tears and help. Coming from Germany, this hits hard.

  • @bayoumeme7743
    @bayoumeme7743 2 года назад +4

    Poor woman has to go through 2 major wars in her lifetime. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

  • @alexandert6172
    @alexandert6172 2 года назад +3

    How does she know how it was in Leningrad siege?

  • @tomihoui
    @tomihoui 2 года назад +4

    Wise words. I hope she lives many more years to tell the world what she saw, many more years for her to see the reconstruction of the city she built and many more years for her to see once again the fall of those only capable of destruction, threats and spreading fear.

  • @videre8884
    @videre8884 2 года назад +2

    I would like to recommend the reports by Graham Phillips and Patrick Lancaster, these reporters talk to many people in Mariupol and they broadcast live from the city.

  • @TimBrianTufuga
    @TimBrianTufuga 2 года назад +3

    She was in Leningrad during WW2 she wasnt in Lviv where four and half thousand Jews were murdered by Stepan Bandera's OUN Hiwi working for the Nazis to exterminate the Jews.

  • @lolawants2008
    @lolawants2008 2 года назад +1

    I’m so sorry.

  • @ruthm3813
    @ruthm3813 2 года назад +9

    This was so very sad and moving. Thank you Elvira for sharing your story. You didn't deserve what happened in WW2 or this ongoing terrible war Putin is inflicting on the wonderful and brave people of Ukraine. RIP Vira, your final report will remain and and will help show the world what happened in Mariupol and to the brave people there.

    • @U.H8
      @U.H8 2 года назад

      💙💛⭐️❤️‍🔥✊🏻🇺🇦🫶🇸🇪🇫🇮✨

  • @hanaatoa8952
    @hanaatoa8952 2 года назад +2

    Oh can't stop crying watching this old lady voicing out her feelings regarding this war with tears running down her eyes. Feel sorry for oldies & children. Thank God it's finished

  • @ЕлизаветаЛаптева-м7щ
    @ЕлизаветаЛаптева-м7щ 2 года назад +4

    Worse than the siege of Leningrad? Where people were dying from hunger and started suffering from cannibalism and lived under the siege during 2,5 years? The whole war in Ukraine durates less then 3 months.
    I’m sorry for Ukrainians and especially elderly people who have to go through it again but it doesn’t mean that you can lessen the horrors of Leningrad

  • @chrishall6451
    @chrishall6451 2 года назад +1

    My deepest condolences to the family of the journalist who died doing her job. This was the most poignant interview ive seen yet out of this hell. Its a beautiful tribute to someone who paid the ultimate price to bring us the news.

  • @DavidRodriguez-er4rq
    @DavidRodriguez-er4rq 2 года назад +5

    Smells fishy, I don't know how she can be in a Holocaust and Leningrad and Ukrainian all at the same time.

    • @wewillovercome5168
      @wewillovercome5168 2 года назад +2

      Like the holocaust survivor who was in 5-8 different camps, met Ana Frank, and also met Doctor Mengele.😆

    • @kxenia7852
      @kxenia7852 2 года назад

      Right

  • @wandajones4063
    @wandajones4063 2 года назад +1

    Everyone please PRAY for peace in Ukraine!

  • @wombatwilly1002
    @wombatwilly1002 2 года назад +2

    The Leningrad seige lasted two years and killed at least a million from starvation.No comparison.

  • @shelleyf5793
    @shelleyf5793 2 года назад +1

    That has to be one of the most heartbreaking things I've seen...robbed of having children because of one war and her life's work destroyed because of another......