Tina Karol gave the Pope the diary of 9-year-old Yegor from Mariupol

Ukrainian singer Tina Karol met with Pope Francis in the Vatican. During the audience, which took place in the Sistine Chapel, Tina Karol handed over to the Pope the original diary of 9-year-old Yehor from a bomb shelter in Mariupol.
The Vatican shared the photo of the meeting on the Pope’s official Instagram.
Yegor kept a diary when he lived for a month in the basement of his house during the Russian occupation of Mariupol. The boy described his life in “total darkness,” wrote about his wound on his back, the wounds of his mother and sister. He drew pictures of people with weapons, people lying on the streets, destroyed houses, explosions, tanks.
“I handed over to His Holiness Pope Francis the original diary of the Ukrainian boy Yehor, in which there are no childish dreams, because the dream of survival, which he writes about, cannot be considered childish.

The tender lines where Yegor writes that “today 2 dogs, grandmother Galia, and his favorite city of Mariupol died” are paralyzing in their tragedy. Yegor prayed that if his family had to die, let them die with him so that he would not be left alone.
The fact that Yegor’s diary is now in the Vatican is an exceptional moment of truth. This diary, as a message to God, embodies not only pain, it embodies the courage of a whole generation of children who are now living through the war against Ukraine,” said Tina Karol.
As you know, Tina Karol has repeatedly quoted lines from Yegor’s diary on stage during her charity concerts in support of Ukraine.
When she later learned that Yehor and his mother and sister were alive and had managed to escape from the Russian enemy, the singer found the family and gave them an apartment in western Ukraine.