Why a Ukrainian mother wrote on her toddler’s body as they fled the war

When Sasha Makoviy made the choice to flee the bombing in Kyiv three weeks in the past along with her two-year-old daughter, Vira, she realized that their security was neither assured nor can be fast.
So she put a small piece of paper in her daughter’s pocket along with her identify and the names of her prolonged household on it, explaining how they could possibly be contacted if mom and daughter received separated. However she anxious that if Vira was wounded alongside the way in which, and if she herself have been killed, the paper would possibly go lacking.
That is when Makoviy made what she referred to as a “painful” resolution to mark her daughter’s physique along with her household’s contact info.
“It is laborious to know that in [the] twenty first century it’s a must to do that form of work, simply to be ready to be lifeless or to be separated [from] your pretty child.”
Sasha Makoviy made the “painful” resolution to put in writing her contact information on her child’s physique as they fled Kyiv in case they grew to become separated or Makoviy was killed. 1:13
Makoviy and her toddler did make it out of the embattled nation, a protracted journey that took them first to central Ukraine, then to Moldova, to Romania, on to Brussels and, lastly, to France.
She mentioned her daughter remembers Kyiv, and when she reveals the woman images on her telephone, her daughter asks about who she sees and wonders what they’re doing.

We had a peaceable, stunning life,” Makoviy mentioned, “and in in the future, every thing [turned] the wrong way up and was actually, actually horrible.”
Sasha Makoviy says her two-year-old daughter remembers their life in Kyiv, regardless of fleeing the conflict three weeks in the past. 1:39