About 5000 of those Kyiv orphans are disabled. The shelling has cut off all routes out of the city.
By Gabriela Miranda
Tikva, which means hope in Hebrew, evacuated 300 children, 80 staff and 150 families from its orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine – first to Moldova and then to Romania.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, according to the United Nations.
On a night two weeks ago (click here) in southwest Ukraine, children inside a Jewish orphanage felt the ground shake and watched lights eerily flicker.
Bombs were falling just a mile from their home, shattering their safe world and sending them fleeing into the darkness.
The children, most in their pajamas and without shoes, rushed out of the orphanage and squeezed onto buses to make their way to the Moldova border as the Russian military launched its invasion of Ukraine. The journey, which eventually took the children to Romania, left them in tears and confusion: Where would they call home now?...
On a night two weeks ago (click here) in southwest Ukraine, children inside a Jewish orphanage felt the ground shake and watched lights eerily flicker.
Bombs were falling just a mile from their home, shattering their safe world and sending them fleeing into the darkness.
The children, most in their pajamas and without shoes, rushed out of the orphanage and squeezed onto buses to make their way to the Moldova border as the Russian military launched its invasion of Ukraine. The journey, which eventually took the children to Romania, left them in tears and confusion: Where would they call home now?...
The Russians are kidnapping mayors of cities in Ukraine. The mayors of these cities are not militia leaders as they were under Yanukovych. There is no reason to torture them so much as hold them as well fed POWs.
Livi is where peace is supposed to be enforced. It is also on the way to Poland. NATO needs to be at readiness when the Russians decide to enter Poland to prevent supplies and escape routes from reaching the Ukrainian people.
The Yavoriv military range near Lviv, also known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, has for years been used for exercises by NATO troops and Ukrainians, with Americans on-site as recently as February. Members of the Florida Army National Guard trained there with Ukrainian forces as recently as February, during the buildup to the Russian invasion.
The airstrike came a day after the Kremlin warned that it viewed Western weapons shipments as “legitimate targets,” heightening the possibility of a direct conflict with the West. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the bombing did not come as a surprise given U.S. warnings that Russia planned to attack all of Ukraine. He reiterated that U.S. forces would not be fighting Russian troops in Ukraine but that they would “defend every inch of NATO territory.”...
When removing eastern Ukraine and Crimea, the Russian gains are minimal. Russia has been assaulting Ukriane since 2014 with it's weapons, so the idea Ukraine needs to stop receiving munitions from anyone to assist in it's defense is at the very least a double standard. Russia would say it is just good business, therefore, same here.
