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Millions of people are currently leaving Ukraine to seek safety. Among them is the singer Jamala, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016.
On Instagram, she showed how exhausting her four-day trip to her sister in Istanbul was.
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On Instagram she posts moving pictures of the Ukraine-Russia war for her 900,000 followers and asks for a quick end.
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Due to the Ukraine-Russia war, countless people are currently having to leave their homes.
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The singer Jamala gives an insight into the dramatic escape on her Instagram account.
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With the song “1944” she won the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm 2016.
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She had to leave her husband behind during the war. She has now arrived with her sister in Istanbul with their sons.
“When strangers come into your house, when they kill you all and they say it’s not their fault, where is your sanity? Humanity weeps. You think you are gods, but everyone dies. Do not swallow my soul, our souls », with these emotional lines the Ukrainian singer Jamala won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016. The 38-year-old would probably never have dared to believe that what she once wrote down and what her ancestors went through in World War II would now happen once more.
Since last Thursday, when the Russians invaded Ukraine, Sussana Jamaladinowa, as her real name is, has been reporting on Instagram regarding her escape: “Yesterday evening, with the noise of the bombs, I grabbed everything in 15 minutes, like my great-grandmother in 1944, and with me leave the apartment with the children in her arms, »she reported in a post a few days ago.
Escape to Istanbul
She had to leave her husband, Bekir Suleimanov, behind. She sat in the car with her children for almost four days, “without food that nobody thought they might digest in shock,” Jamala wrote regarding several pictures and videos of explosions, burned-out houses and her sleeping sons while driving. “Two kilometers in four hours – that’s regarding how we moved,” she continued. In the meantime she has arrived with her children at her sister’s in Istanbul. Still, she doesn’t feel safe.
In her contribution she appeals: “We must stop Putin’s Russian war! Stand by Ukraine. Help us save our country.” She doesn’t want to give up hope. “I believe in our President Zelensky, our army, our strong, courageous men and women. We will make it! Ukraine will not be defeated!”
Your ESC victory caused trouble
Originally, the Russian singer Sergey Lazarev was traded as the favorite at the Eurovision Song Contest. But in the end he only finished third. This was consequently condemned in Moscow as a political decision. “It was a victory for politics over art,” complained the Russian Senator Franz Klinzewitsch (64).
Later, Jamala was invited to sing at an event for Putin’s leadership while being asked to take Russian citizenship. However, she firmly rejected both. “I have Ukrainian citizenship, another is not necessary.”
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