Story from Ukraine – “Everything passes except war dogs”

– “Everything passes except the female dogs of war”

Humanitarian worker Tasha Rumley, from Vaud, was the first to join Mariupol during the war that began in 2014. She remembers thinking of those who remained there.

Tasha Rumley

Posted today at 4:59 p.m.

Summer 2015, Tasha Rumley (3rd from the left) with the hard core of the Mariupol team, united and confident in mitigating the Donbass war. Since then, the Azeri humanitarian worker (in red) has tragically lost his life in another mission and two of the Ukrainians (blurred) are under siege in Mariupol.

Private Tasha Rumley

Last night I dreamed of war. This is not a rhetorical pirouette, I really dreamed of it. And when in the twilight of dawn I opened my panicked eyes, I thought I saw a missile pierce my window and explode my bed. “No!” silently howled my foggy mind, before regaining its clairvoyance.

It’s “my war” that I dreamed of, the one before then, the Donbass 2014-15 and whose ghost, however tamed, awoke to the first howls of its heiress, the invasion of Ukraine. Two “female dogs of war”, according to the expression of Anne Nivat, the first giving birth to the second, who have haunted me jointly for two weeks and bring back the snippets of twenty years of Russophile progress.