'I want to live in Ukraine': Hundreds of Ukrainian orphans forced to flee to Poland amid Russian invasion


One in all Poland's largest resorts is now the final resort for over 700 Ukrainian orphans who have been compelled to flee amid Russia's invasion of the nation.


The youngsters, aged three to 18, and workers of the state-run orphanage fled Odessa, Ukraine inside an hour’s discover, travelling greater than 48 hours on trains and buses to flee the violence being unleashed on civilians by the Russian navy.


“Plenty of kids inform us I don’t to come back right here, why you are taking me, I wish to stay in Ukraine. Oh, bombs? No downside. They don’t perceive,” Yulia Nikandrova, supervisor of the Odessa Kids’s Safety Service, instructed CTV Information Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme Wednesday.


LaFlamme, reporting from the resort turned orphanage in Ossa, Poland, watched as the kids sorted by containers of donated clothes that arrived by the truckload. Tonight, they’ll sleep in a convention room and eat in a swanky resort restaurant, all run by volunteers.


“Meals, sneakers, dolls, garments, shampoo,” Nikandrova exclaimed, itemizing the beneficiant donations given to the kids.


However what they actually need, she says, are youngster psychologists.


“We want palms… folks… as a result of these kids, in the event you see they take, take, take, take, take,” she mentioned, gesturing as if the kids have been frantically scooping issues up. “As a result of they suppose that tomorrow is absent.”


For these kids, tomorrow doesn’t really feel promised.


“We wish to come again residence,” Nikandrova mentioned. “We love our nation and we wish to come again and we should come again as a result of that is the kids Ukrainian kids.” 

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