The teacher and mom whose bloodied face became one of the early defining images of the invasion of Ukraine called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the “meaningless war” Saturday in a new interview.“Please, get the message across that Ukraine does not want to harm anyone. Ukraine is a very friendly nation,” Olena Kurilo, 52, said. “Our mothers will lose their children, old people and children will die, ordinary people will die innocent of anything.”Kurilo emerged from the hospital Thursday in Chuguev, outside the city of Kharkiv, when journalists captured a photo of her, covered in bandages after a missile strike sent shards of window glass flying into her face.
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