Long Live Anastasiia Yalanskaya (Ani stas sheeya Yalan sky-a)

[Botany]

Long Live Anastasiia Yalanskaya (Ani stas sheeya Yalan sky-a)

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As Russian troops closed in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Anastasiia Yalanskaya insisted she would stay, even while her friends and family fled around her.

The 26-year-old Ukrainian woman was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday when she was shot and killed alongside two men she had been volunteering with.

Yalanskaya’s friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops. Global News has been unable to confirm the circumstances of her death.

On Tuesday, she wrote about helping a kindergarten in Brovary, just outside Kyiv, where 40 children were without food and diapers, as well as bringing aid to a military hospital and bringing food for volunteer dogs.

In the preceding days, she chronicled her volunteer work and spoke of her talks with the Ukrainian Armed Forces at checkpoints, saying she was proud of being Ukrainian “for the first time in my life.”


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Anastasiia Yalanskaya

I can't even pronounce her name but I will learn to pronounce it because the world needs to hear her story.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8661361/volunteer-death-kyiv-ukraine/

[DFW]

1. I think the question can be reasonably posed in this case

Were the true dogs inside the shelter, or rather were they the ones toting guns outside the shelter, killing the volunteers.

[Hugin]

2. There are no winners in war.

[Celerity]

3. Except bankers.

[wendyb-NC]

4. Yes and large industrial Military Contractors

I'm thinking those that manufacture armaments and their Military accessories.

[Celerity]

8. Yes, but often throughout history the arms makers of the losing side get wiped out.

Banksters finance both sides, and all phases. From the build up, to the actual kinetic part, then the inevitable rebuild, which starts the viscous cycle all over again. Britain still has not totally paid off its Napoleonic war debt in full.

[wendyb-NC]

5. That's heartbreaking

and a war crime. Such a good person.

R.I.P., Anastasiia Yalanskaya, you are a heroic patriot, you are the definition of a global citizen.

[jimmy the one]

6. Ah nah STASS yuh

I can't even pronounce her name but I will learn to pronounce it because the world needs to hear her story.

Ah nah STASS yuh
Yah LANN skya -- the skya is 'skee uh' pronounced quickly almost as if one syllable. Similar to polish 'ski' at end of name, while the 'a' designates a female.
In russian the rule of thumb is to accentuate the penultimate syllable (next to last). Problem is this rule of thumb is not absolute (GOR bachev). Ambassador Yovanovich could be pronounced Yo van OH vitch in russia, or Yo VANN oh vitch in some slavic countries. She evidently prefers the latter.

Consider english word stroke, is it one syllable or two? most would say one syllable, but stir- oke is two, yes? Said quidkly it becomes one syllable.
Remember Peter Strzok the object of trump bashing? Stirzh OK becomes near one syllable in polish, americanized to strok, ugh.

[Raine]

7. So sad 😓 💔

that such a giving unselfish person is killed doing good for defenseless little beings. 🕯️

[Javaman]

9. and fucking russians that shot her? were they glad they stopped her from delivering dog food?

fucking bastards. just fucking bastards.