HS in Ukraine Families with children pack their cars and prepare for an escape from Vinnytsia to the Ukrainian border, says HS journalist and photographer

Vinnytsja

Families with children are currently evacuating the Russian invasion in Ukraine to the west and the Polish border, as well as to the southwest and towards the Moldovan border.

Here in Vinnytsia, 200 kilometers from Kiev and another more than 120 kilometers from the Moldovan border, snow again covers the country after a few warm days.

HS was present when Batjukin and Lyubtshlin and Hladkan family members packed up in a car on a getaway in Vinnytsia. A group of three adults and two children stayed at the Optima Hotel in the city center and continued toward western Ukraine on Tuesday morning.

It was a good time to leave, as in Vinnytsia, which was considered calm, there was an air alarm at 11 a.m. and all residents were asked to protect themselves. A possible destination for the Russian planes was an airport used by the Ukrainian Air Force 15 kilometers from the city center.

Fortunately, they have a car, as the day gets cold. At the same time, attempts are being made to help them and other fugitives around the world – and also in Finland.

Ahafia Batjuk sat in the back seat of the car ready to leave Vynnitsia for the western parts of Ukraine.

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“We have never before collected such a large sum in such a short time for a single crisis,” Unicefin Minna Suihkonen says in an email to HS.

We care a message to Unicef ​​staff in Kiev at their “shelter”, the Ramada Ramada Hotel, where HS also spent the weekend during a total curfew in Kiev.

There are still a lot of families with children in the hotel, for whom rushing to the shelters at night during the alarms is already commonplace.

“This is great news,” says Unicef’s head of information in Ukraine and at the hotel in question Nina Sorokopud.

At the same time, the situation is escalating in Kiev, when the first wave, ie the bombings and the advance of Russian troops to the bridgeheads around Kiev, for example, is changing to the second wave.

Now it is the turn of the massive combat units backed by more careful maintenance measures to Kiev.

The goal of the Russian battle group is to travel about 30 kilometers a day and 200-250 kilometers a week, military experts told HS last week.

That means mainstream Russian ground forces that have left the Belarusian border can reach Kiev in full force, perhaps on Wednesday and Thursday.

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For example, it is now anticipated by a 64-kilometer-long Russian military column near Kiev, according to satellite images of the US company Maxar. According to the news agency Reuters.

Many families with children have fled Kiev, but the city of almost four million people will not be emptied quickly, as described to HS at the Kiev railway station on Monday Niklas Meltio said.

On Tuesday, precautions were stepped up: every Kievan with bulletproof vests was asked to wear them at all times.

At the same time, the humanitarian crisis is deepening.

“We receive reports of hospitals, schools, water and sanitation facilities and orphanages that are the subject of fires,” said Unicef’s CEO Catherine Russell on Monday in its bulletin.

“Children are being killed. Children are vulnerable. Children are deeply traumatized by the violence around them. ”

Same told Unicef, which monitors the situation on Ukraine ‘s eastern border James Elder.

“Thousands spend the night in bomb shelters or walk in the sky. The children do not understand why they had to leave their homes and they are traumatized. The queues at the Polish border are huge. ”

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In Ukraine has a total of 7.5 million children. A dozen of them have already died in violence.

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The damage caused by the war is already beginning at birth, as stress and distress in the midst of the bombings have triggered dozens of births too early.

“I cried when I saw premature babies whose heads were smaller than an apple and who were born only after about 30 weeks of pregnancy. So many wires and pipes were attached to the tiny bodies that night, ” Svetlana Mitskevytš told HS after giving birth to his own healthy daughter on the first morning in Kiev.

Here In Vinnytsia, the air alarm was over at least so far at 11.25 and the getaway of families with children continues towards the border.

Already half a million people have fled Ukraine. Almost all of them are women, children or men of retirement age, as men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country due to the state of war.

The UN estimates that the number of Ukrainian refugees could rise to four million.

That means the other 40 million citizens of the great country will have to live in bomb shelters and sieges as the destructive power of the main forces of the Russian army increases.

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