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“My main goal, purpose and mission is to tell the world about my country, about our Ukrainian spirit, about our beauty, about our strength and about what we are enduring right now,” he explained. the Ukrainian model Olga Vasyliv in an Instagram post.
Miss Ukraine used the Tuesday this social network to publicly complain upon learning that the organization had placed her as a roommate of the Russian miss Ekaterina Astashenkova, during the days prior to the Miss Grand International gala , scheduled for 80 October in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
Vasyliv indicated from the Indonesian capital that he felt “anger and pain” at having to coincide with the representative of a “country terrorist”, alluding to the war between kyiv and Moscow caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine since february.
The controversy spread quickly through social networks, where a barrage of users criticized the “unfortunate” initiative of the organization of the contest, based in Thailand, which sought to send a message with this idea of peace and against the armed conflict.
Finally, and after a barrage of comments against the decision, the organization opted for locating the Ukrainian model in another instance.
“Thank you all, I already have my own room. It is a small step, but very important because now more people know what happens to us and our feelings. I’m not going to stop”, the Ukrainian model published this Thursday.
For her On the other hand, the representative of Russia reacted with a message of peace by influencing her Ukrainian family roots.
“From my family I am the first person to be born in Russia, all others are from Ukraine. For me the political situation is extremely complex and I hope that my voice will be heard during the contest. I am against hate, and for friendship, love and world peace, ”she pointed out on Wednesday in the Astashenkova networks. (ff)