An 11-year-old Ukrainian boy crossed the border into Slovakia, alone, with a plastic bag, your passport and a phone number written on your handthe Slovak police reported this Sunday.
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“Came only from Zaporizhia because his parents had to stay in Ukraine,” police spokeswoman Denisa Bardyova told AFP. A team of volunteers took care of the boy, who Saturday came, and they gave him food and drink.
Since Friday, the Russian army has occupied the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, where -according to the Ukrainian authorities- artillery fire caused a fire. The Russian government, on the other hand, denies causing the fire.
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The mother of the minor put him on a train to Slovakia because he had to stay at home to take care of his disabled mother.
“I am very grateful that they have saved my son’s life,” the woman, Yulia Pisetskaya, said in a video message posted on Facebook on Sunday. “In your small country there are people with a big heart“, he added.
Police stated on Facebook that the boy “won everyone’s hearts with his smile, his bravery and his determination, a job worthy of a true hero.”
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Several local volunteers contacted relatives of the little boy in Slovakia, who came to pick him up and took him to Bratislava, the capital.
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