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Three Hundred Cloaks – to the Front!
“Am I a volunteer? – smiles 68-year-old Lyubov Petrivna. – That’s for you to tell me… I just knit and don’t think about whether I’m a volunteer or not. – As long as it helps the boys, that’s the main thing!”
Despite her health issues, this woman has knitted nearly three hundred (!) camouflage suits for Ukrainian soldiers!
“I tried knitting and it worked out for me, and it’s something needed at the front, so I keep doing it. Together – to victory!” smiles Mrs. Lyuba.
"As Long as God Gives Me Strength, I Will Keep Helping!"
Mrs. Lyuba lives in the village of Vysoke in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
“I live alone,” the woman shares. “My husband passed away twenty years ago. I have two children and five grandchildren – they are my treasure and joy! There’s always enough work to do at home, but when I knit for our soldiers, it’s like a breath of fresh air for me!
I’ve already knitted nearly three hundred camouflage suits. I’ve been a bit under the weather lately, so I’ve slowed down, but I used to knit up to three suits a day. Now my back hurts, and my hands and feet go numb… But it’s okay, as long as God gives me strength, I will keep helping!”
During the winter, Mrs. Lyuba worked and knitted inside her house, but now that it’s warmer, she has moved to her summer kitchen. She gets up at five in the morning and goes straight there, grabs her yarn, and gets to work! She says she can’t sleep anyway, so she thinks at least she can help the boys.
“I inject insulin five times a day – I don’t have the strength or health to go to a volunteer center, so I do what I can at home.
I knit and hope it helps our soldiers,” Lyubov Oleksandrivna says, wiping away a tear, “so that Victory comes sooner.”
No special tools are needed for this work – I just thread and tie pieces of burlap one by one onto a net.
In winter, I knitted white camouflage suits, now green and brown ones to match the grass, and in autumn, yellow-green like the leaves.“
“Everything is important here, every stitch, every thread, nothing is insignificant. Our volunteers provide me with the yarn, thanks to them – our village is active, many people help, everyone contributes something. Thread by thread, we weave our victory… Together – to victory!”
Together to Victory: The Whole Family Volunteers!
Finished camouflage suits from Lyubov Oleksandrivna are sent to the front lines, to the Ukrainian defenders.
Volunteers say that Ukrainian soldiers receive these covers with great warmth and gratitude, knowing that behind each cloak is a person who cares about them. These aren’t just knitted covers – they are a connection between those who fight and those who support them from the rear.
“My son volunteers, and he’s made several trips to Eastern Ukraine to deliver aid to the soldiers, including my camouflage suits,” the woman shares.
“The boys take them, thank him, and my son is happy, saying, ‘It feels good to know my mom knitted these.’ That’s how we move together – towards victory!”
Everyone in Lyubov Oleksandrivna’s family volunteers: her son and daughter-in-law, her daughter and son-in-law. It’s especially touching to see her little granddaughter Zlata, who is not even two years old, trying to help her grandmother by pulling on a thread to knit a cover for the soldiers.
For her, knitting camouflage suits is not just a game but an important task she performs with all seriousness and enthusiasm.
“I raised my children this way: with love for their native land and a desire to help others from an early age,” says Lyubov Oleksandrivna.
“My granddaughter will grow up remembering how her grandmother taught her to be kind and devoted to her people.”
Thank you, dear Lyubov Oleksandrivna, for your tireless work and big heart. May your hands never know fatigue, and may your heart always be filled with warmth and joy, love and hope.
