Ladies That Stayed

November 2, 2022 5:30 PM

A photoessay by Carol Guzy. Affectionately known as babushkas, these elderly women sheltered in place through the early days of the war in Ukraine.Nadia Panasivna Yerukhymovych, 89, sings a moving folk song called Mother's Braid CW: possibly disturbing imagery; dead animal
posted by adept256 (7 comments total)

The war in question is the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
posted by NotLost at 7:09 PM on November 2, 2022 [3 favorites]

Apologies. It's not too late to ask the mods to add 'in Ukraine'.
posted by adept256 at 7:23 PM on November 2, 2022

Well that is heartbreaking. Also wow, eighty and ninety somethings, many of them relatively independent. Tough people, making a community.
posted by Glinn at 7:50 PM on November 2, 2022

I see my grandmother in every one of those women, and I want to punch Putin so fucking hard for making my grandmother suffer.
posted by RakDaddy at 10:01 PM on November 2, 2022 [2 favorites]

(Note: this is all figurative. My grandmother died in 1994 and was Lithuanian. Still.)
posted by RakDaddy at 10:18 PM on November 2, 2022

Those pigeons know what Greebo did to that armored division.
posted by adept256 at 10:41 AM on November 3, 2022 [2 favorites]

SNUGGLES WITH THE KITTIES. I also appreciate the photos of the photos of them in their younger days.
posted by spamandkimchi at 12:49 PM on November 3, 2022