7-year-old Amelia Anisovych, the Ukrainian girl who went viral on social media after singing the song ‘Let It Go’ had sung in a bomb shelter, has arrived safely in Poland. The child and her family hid for six days in a bunker in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, but Amelia was now able to flee the country with her 15-year-old brother and grandmother.
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The video in which 7-year-old Amelia sings the Ukrainian version of ‘Let It Go’, a song from the Disney film ‘Frozen’, was immediately shared on social media. The images show how the people in the air-raid shelter become silent while Amelia gives a moving performance. “Everyone stopped talking and listened to the singing of the radiant girl,” said Marta Smekhova, who posted the video on Facebook.
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Idina Menzel, the American actress and singer who provided Elsa’s voice for the film, also responded to Amelia’s video earlier this week. “We see you, we really see you,” the artist wrote on Twitter.
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“Gives us hope”
Lilia (39), Amelia’s mother, says that the success of the video shows how united the world is against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “And that gives us hope,” said the woman. However, according to Lilia, the images also show how Ukrainian children are currently living in appalling conditions by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We were in the bomb shelter for a week and didn’t have enough food. To go to the toilet, we had to run upstairs while his (Putin’s) rockets flew overhead. The children were terrified,” said Lilia.
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Lilia and her husband Roman (36) decided to send Amelia and her 15-year-old brother Misha with their grandmother to Poland. The couple stayed behind in Kiev to prepare meals for Ukrainian soldiers. “It was very difficult to say goodbye to my children, but it was the only option to make sure they were safe,” said Lilia. The two children and their grandmother hiked to the Polish border for two days, but would be well now.
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