The volunteer from the Netherlands: Ukraine is not making headlines any more. The Western society discusses "The Islamic state" and the virus Ebola
The former inhabitant of Odessa, more than 20 years living in Amsterdam, Syuzanna Dostaleva in interview to
By Natalya Dvali, Editor
Syuzanna Dostaleva from moved to the more than 20 years ago. On November 30, 2013, the next day after cruel crackdown of a student's Euromaidan in , Syuzanna together with other Ukrainians organized meeting in to draw attention of the Dutch authorities to illegal actions of the regime of Victor Yanukovych.
Actions in support of gradually developed into the volunteer movement. In the spring of 2014 Syuzanna founded noncommercial fund Ukraine today which helps the fighters who are at war in a zone of anti-terrorist operation (ATO), the wounded and emigrants. The fund regularly sends humanitarian freight weighing more than a ton to .
In interview to GORDON Syuzanna told about why she is boycotted by Embassy of in the , about the attitude of the Dutches towards the Russian President Vladimir Putin and how she was beaten in for a blue-yellow ribbon.
The Dutches understand that is an aggressor; they say that Putin went crazy– Is it the truth that the guy from the ultras who wrote the song "Putin - h... lo" visited you in ?
– We got acquainted with this boy through Facebook, he contacted me with a request to help his friends who are at war in the ATO zone. I manage to collect quite good sum, as for the quiet , for the help to the Ukrainian fighters. We with other Dutch activists met the boy in cafe, communicated.
– Did you sing "La-la-la" song?
– We were not in that mood. The boy is now on rotation, he is planing to return to ATO. Volunteers in the are tired; they want to return to former quiet life. And still all of us got confused in realities of the Ukrainian policy a little here.