#womeninchess
The chess-world can be proud of its women.
Staying in Odesa, to fight off the invaders, or going to Kyiv while it is being bombarded, to show support for the Ukrainian people.
FIDE officials posing with the Russian army however, has to be a thing of the past. pic.twitter.com/iWJaynwNQQ— Peter Heine Nielsen (@PHChess) May 9, 2022
Nina Shevchenko holding the hand of her 15-year-old son Artem, who was killed by Russian shelling on Kharkiv on April 15.
? by Mstislav Chernov#RussiaWarCrimes pic.twitter.com/s1xA7XG1EN— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) April 19, 2022
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1/3 This is hard to watch, but this is the devastating reality in Ukraine caused by the Russian aggression! An innocent teenage boy in Kharkiv was killed by Russian attacks. The heartbreaking cries from his mother & grandmother “Open your eyes! My sunshine. My reason to live” pic.twitter.com/1oQQJOk2Qh
— Ine Back Iversen (@IneBackIversen) April 17, 2022
Every day the entire territory of Ukraine is under rocket fire. In my native Lviv, 7 people died from these regular attacks. Houses in the famous chess city of Kharkiv have already been destroyed by 25%. Anton Korobov lost two apartments in Kharkiv. House of Moiseenko isdestroyed
— Andriy Volokitin (@AndriyVolokitin) May 9, 2022