” Italy has hospitalized over 150 children . The Vatican has also worked hard, welcoming our little ones to the Bambino Gesu Hospital, where the Pope has also gone to visit and bless them. I invite all Italians and Italian institutions, who they can do it, to host our children: to offer them shelter, medical treatments, rehabilitation “. This is the appeal of Olena Zelenska , first lady of Ukraine, in an interview with Gr1. “Today the rights of Ukrainian children are violated by the invader, who bombs hospitals, schools and apartment buildings. 250 have already died ,” added the Ukrainian president’s wife.
The first lady also commented on the images arrived in recent days from Bucha, after the withdrawal of the Russian troops: “The images of Bucha simply leave me speechless. It was a very nice suburb of the capital, inhabited by young families with children. We never thought we should compare it to Srebenica.“.” After the withdrawal of the Russians, over 380 people were found dead. Russia cynically speaks of a staging. How we would like these images to be false! “, Zelenska said in the interview.” There is a story that I want to tell you – continued the wife of the Ukrainian president – That of Irina, photographed, dead, with a perfect manicure. She was the mother of two little girls. She had just completed a make-up course. She was very proud of it because she was fulfilling professionally. She was shot by the Russians while she was returning home by bicycle “.
The first lady also denounced the fact that” more than half of Ukrainian children are refugees“:” We are also working on a project aimed at supporting the little ones who have had to leave the country. We want them to be able to receive books in their language , wherever they are. It is a way to psychologically help them feel at home, even if, due to the war, they are far away “, said Zelenska.” I am concerned – explained the first lady – about evacuating orphaned children or those who are unable to receive. no assistance from their parents, in the territories under the bombing. Then we organize the transfer to safe places for the sickest ones. Finally, we deliver incubators for newborns to many pediatric wards that have to work without electricity. We have already brought two to Mykolaiv. We expect another eight. We would like to get them home quickly, but how do we do it
We asked NATO to impose a no-fly zone, but it was not possible and you saw the results: the bombings on the pediatric hospital and on the Mariupol theater. ”
Zelenska also commented on the collaboration with the Polish and French first ladies : “Since the first day of the war, Ukraine and Poland have been coordinating to create special corridors for mothers and girls. Both Ms. Macron and the wife of the Polish President Duda have been my great allies, “she said.” The first one you personally met with Ukrainian children in hospital. The second accompanied our children from Poland to Rome. It is what we call ‘the itinerary of life’: rescue children in Lviv, western Ukraine. And from there they organize their crossing of the European border with medical units. Once they arrive in Poland , they either stay in local hospitals or are transferred to other countries “.
