When the bombing near Kiev became unbearable, Rodina Vronyny, Kiril and Nadya left their home in a suburb of Kiev by car. They spent the night in Lviv, then Nadya and Kiril’s father drove them to the border. There, he had to say goodbye and go back to Kiev to fight in the war. It was hard for the children to say goodbye.
He left the children in the care of their grandmother. They walked the last kilometers to the border. They stood in the cold for 3 hours until they could cross the border at Dorohusk. Kiril and Nadya’s mother is already in Warsaw. She asked her colleague Irina to pick up her children at the border. From Caritas Poland, they got some food at the border crossing and some child seats.
Philipp Spalek for Caritas