Poland and Hungary welcomed a couple hundred disabled orphans and their chaperones who fled the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv amid a flurry of projectiles.
A train pulled into the city of Zahony, Hungary, with over 200 people on board. The majority of passengers on the train, which arrived on Wednesday, were children with various levels of disabilities, including mental and physical disabilities. The children and their chaperones came from two orphanages in Kyiv.
“Territorially, the orphanages are where the rockets flew, where there were bursts of rifle fire. A metro station near the orphanage was blown up,” Larissa Leonidovna, the director of the Svyatoshinsky orphanage for boys, told the Associated Press. “We spent more than an hour underground during a bombing.”
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The evacuation of the children was a joint mission by the Catholic relief organization Caritas, Kyiv’s deputy mayor, and the city’s child protection services. The children will be taken to Opole, Poland, where they will be housed in rehabilitation centers.
Within the last week, over a million refugees fled from Ukraine, according to the United Nation’s refugee agency. Over half of the refugees fled to Poland, but Slovakia, Hungary, and Moldova, among others, have accepted refugees as well. The agency predicts a total of 4 million of Ukraine’s 44 million people will leave flee.
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Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “military action” in Ukraine, which has led to a week of fighting between the countries. More than 2,870 people in Ukraine have been killed, around 3,700 have been injured, and 572 have been captured, according to the Russian defense minister.
