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"There were 9 people in the car," says 9-year-old Alisa about the evacuation from Mariupol

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There were 9 people in the car, says 9-year-old Alisa about the evacuation from Mariupol

During the full-scale war, more than 250 children, without their parents, were evacuated from hot spots to Dnipro. Relatives, acquaintances, and sometimes volunteers, who found lonely children in bomb shelters and just on the streets, took children away from the shelling. Currently, there are more than two dozen child migrants who have lost contact with their parents. Lyudmila and her 9-year-old niece Alisa came to Dnipro at the beginning of April. They stayed in their native Mariupol until the house burned down, where they hid from shelling together with friends. The young girl remembers the long road in detail. «There were 9 of us and we all got into Lyuda’s car. Someone was sitting, someone was lying down. We left for Berdyansk, there were very big traffic jams,» the girl says
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