Ukrainian girl moves stars to tears with viral video singing from Kyiv bunker
A Ukrainian child sheltering in a bunker has received attention from Broadway star Idina Menzel and ITVs Holly Willoughby after a video of her singing Let It Go went viral on social media. The young girl, believed to be called Amelia, was captured singing the hit from the Disney film Frozen in her native tongue from an underground bunker in the capital Kyiv, as people gathered around to watch. The video, posted to Facebook by user Marta Smekhova, has garnered more than 86, 000 likes and been watched 2. 6 million times since it was posted to the platform on Thursday. Menzel, who voiced the lead role of Elsa in Disneys 2013 musical, showed her support for Amelia to her more than 680, 000 followers on Twitter. The star reposted the video with yellow and a blue heart emojis and wrote: We see you. We really, really see you. Alongside the original video posted on Facebook, Ms Smekhova wrote that she had spoken to the little girl after spotting her drawing bright pictures in the
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