Anna Tuv, a Donbas resident who lost her husband and daughter in a conflict in the east of Ukraine, was on Friday nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by the Italian charity Aiutateci a Salvare i Bambini (Help Save Children) and Italian lawmaker Vito Comencini
ROME (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th January, 2019) Anna Tuv, a Donbas resident who lost her husband and daughter in a conflict in the east of Ukraine, was on Friday nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by the Italian charity Aiutateci a Salvare i Bambini (Help Save Children) and Italian lawmaker Vito Comencini.Her nomination was announced at a press conference in Rome in the building of the Italian parliament's lower chamber.
Ennio Bordato, the chair of the charity, has stressed to Sputnik that Anna's nomination would help make more people in Europe aware of her story.
"Anna Tuv's story is very important because she represents the suffering of the people living in Donbas. She is a mother, she is a woman who lost her husband and daughter. She suffered physically from this war having lost her hand," Bordato told Sputnik.
On May 26, 2015, the house in the city of Horlivka, where Tuv lived with her husband and three children, was hit by Kiev's armed forces.
"We had a happy life, I worked in a hospital for ten years. We were absolutely apolitical, busy with housework and raising kids, never thinking that a war would strike us in our home, in the twenty-first century," Anna told reporters at the press conference.
Two of the children survived, although wounded, Anna herself lost her hand. Her husband and 11-year-old daughter died.
After learning about the tragedy, Bordato and his charity arranged for Anna to travel to Italy for surgery. Anna had to pass through Russia, where she was registered as a refugee. Anna underwent surgery in 2017 and now has a bionic prosthetic arm.
"I don't want women to suffer, bury their children. My family cannot be saved anymore, but all others that are still out there under attacks can be," Anna said.
The petition for Anna's nomination will be accompanied by files of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Anna's lawsuit against the Ukrainian authorities and her 2017 speech at the UN Human Rights Council session.
"It was my duty to come and say that there should not be a war. I am not here because of the prize, but so that as many people as possible would learn about what is happening in Donbas," Anna Tuv told Sputnik.
The conflict in the east of Ukraine began in 2014, when the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against two regions that refused to recognize a new government that had come to power in Kiev.
The parties to the conflict signed the Minsk peace accords in February 2015, but hostilities did not stop completely.
