Millions of Ukrainians have migrated by bus, car or even on foot, facing a crisis of global proportions. According to the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, more than seven million people have had to leave Ukraine since the conflict began. (Due to the public interest that the events between Russia and Ukraine arouse, all our coverage of that invasion and related actions will have free access for all readers of EL TIEMPO)
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I thought we would be walking for two or three days. I thought we’d be walking all day
In addition, the commissioner mentioned that, according to the United Nations Organization (UN), “about 18 million Ukrainians will be affected, from a humanitarian point of vieweither within the territory of Ukraine or in neighboring countries” for which the world may be facing one of the worst humanitarian crises in Europe.
Despite the fact that Martial Law allows men who are not between 18 and 60 years old to leave the country, hundreds of children have been affected by having to abandon their parents, grandparents and friends in the war . Mark Goncharuk is one of them.
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In an interview for the British media ‘The Guardian’, the boy, in tears, said: “we left our dad in Kiev and he will be selling things and helping other heroes, our army.”
The infant shows how affected he is by the situation through his afflicted face, “my dad could even fight,” he continues.
Mark lived in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, but Given the risk, he had to leave with the women of his family. According to him, he had been walking with them for three hours before they were picked up in a van.
“I thought we would be walking for two or three days. I thought we’d be walking all day but you saved us”, he says while looking at the camera.
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In the midst of the bleak panorama, some volunteers bring blankets and hot drinks to those who have not had Mark’s luck and have had to continue walking through the snow and freezing wind.
Like this family thousands of Ukrainians have left their country and migrated to other nearby ones in search of a safer life, hoping one day to meet again with those they had to leave behind.
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