The Ukrainian grandmother, who came out with a red flag to meet the Ukrainian military and is used by Russian media for her propaganda, complains to the Russian army about the destroyed house.

Pensioner Anna Ivanova and her husband were persuaded to evacuate to one of Kharkiv’s hospitals, according to the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security of the Ministry of Culture.

Their house in a village near Kharkiv was shelled by Russian troops.

The pensioners were helped to get to the hospital by the Ukrainian military, who had previously handed them food.

“It’s lousy that Russia has gone … with the war on us. It’s very lousy,” says Anna Ivanova.

The pensioner is not even happy that she has become a celebrity.

“It would be better if there were no celebrities, and there was no war,” – says the “grandmother with a flag”, as she was called by the Russian media.

A few weeks ago, the Russian press circulated a video showing a pensioner leaving the gates of her home with a red flag with Soviet symbols.

My grandmother came out to them with a Soviet flag because she didn’t understand who they were.

She says she was waiting for them and “prayed for you and for Putin. And for all the people.”

Ukrainian soldiers gave her food, and the woman tried to give it up, saying “you need it yourself.” One of the soldiers took the red flag from her and trampled it with his feet.

The grandmother later explained that she had joined the military because she was trying to “reconcile” with them with a red flag so that they would not “destroy” the village and Ukraine.

Russian propaganda

Russian media have picked up footage showing a grandmother carrying a red flag out of the yard and making it a symbol of an allegedly hospitable meeting of the Russian army in Ukraine and the rejection of the Armed Forces.

Propagandists said that her grandmother lived in the village of Dmytrivka in the Kyiv region, but after the village was liberated by Ukrainian troops, she was allegedly taken to Russia by her son.

Russian propaganda has created a mythological image of a Ukrainian pensioner.

And when the Ukrainian authorities found her grandmother and talked to her, the Russian public wrote that she was captured by the SBU and forced to tell a lie.

Posters and murals are painted from it, newspapers are published, and several monuments are erected.

However, he stayed in Russia for only one day. According to the mayor of Belgorod Anton Ivanov, immediately after the installation, local residents began to climb the sculpture, so the authorities removed the “grandmother” and will look for a new place where people “will not be able to contact.”

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