11-Year-Old Ukrainian Refugee Arrives Alone In Slovakia – The HuffPost

Associated Press

WAR IN UKRAINE – This is a heartbreaking story around the war in ukraine. An 11-year-old Ukrainian boy crossed the border alone Slovak with just a plastic bag, his passport and a phone number written on his hand, the Slovak police announced on Sunday March 6.

“He came alone from Zaporozhye because his parents had to stay in Ukraine,” police spokeswoman Denisa Bardyova told AFP. Volunteers took care of the boy, who arrived on Saturday, and provided him with food and drink.

The Russian army has been occupying since Friday Zaporozhye nuclear power plantthe largest in Europe, where strikes from its artillery, according to the Ukrainians, caused a fire – which Moscow denies being the cause.

“In your small country, there are people with big hearts”

The boy’s mother had put him on a train to Slovakia because she had to stay behind to care for her own disabled mother.

“I am very grateful that my child’s life was saved,” Yulia Pisetskaya said in a Facebook video post on Sunday. “In your small country, there are people with big hearts”.

Police said on Facebook that the boy “won everyone’s hearts with his smile, his courage and his determination, worthy of a true hero”.

Local volunteers contacted the boy’s relatives in Slovakia, who picked him up and took him to Bratislava.

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