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11-year-old singer and pianist from Odesa, Mariia Sviazova, who in 2025 became a finalist in the national selection for Junior Eurovision, is now performing in Moscow. Her mother, Olha Velyka, who previously managed her daughter’s career in Ukraine, explained the family’s move to Russia by accusing the Ukrainian state.
In particular, she claimed that in Ukraine they supposedly “hunt” citizens, and that children are “used” to normalize the war. This is reported in a piece by Babel, and in a video address by Olha Velyka published on her daughter’s YouTube channel.
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