Schoolchildren in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday in what has become a daily drill: practicing their response to a shelling attack.
“Shivering, Hungry and Tearful in Rebel-Held Eastern Ukraine”
By Rick Lyman February 6, 2015 (via nytimes.com)
Nikita, who has been living for several months with his mother and 1-year-old sister in a basement labyrinth of makeshift tents and rubber-bucket lavatories, explained why he cannot return to his toy-filled apartment.
“There is shrapnel in my bedroom,” said Nikita, 4.
About 200 refugees, 50 of them children, cower in the subterranean bomb shelter of a children’s arts center in Petrovsky district, on the far western edge of Donetsk. Three days earlier, a shell had exploded across from Nikita’s apartment, pitting the walls of his building, shattering windows and sending a fresh delivery of razor-sharp metal into his bedroom wall.
His mother, Katerina Dynya, 22, sat on a cot made from a door set atop four bricks. “We think perhaps we will let the children outside today,” she said, though the sprawling park nearby is far too dangerous. Instead, the children are allowed occasionally into an interior courtyard, where they search the rubble for shards of shrapnel.
This updates you on our efforts in Ukraine to assist those who are being terrorized by Russia’s invasion, occupation and inhumanities in Ukraine.
This update gives you information on how our Ukrainian brethren are working with the benevolent commodities being sent to help relieve the trauma to the orphaned, widowed, elderly, wounded and displaced.
Specific totals include these lines…
* Bags of clothes shipped…3,068
* Boxes of medical supplies shipped…643
* Pallets of medical supplies shipped…13
* Number of Family Buckets shipped…499
* Total number of Items shipped (some are packed pallets)…6,591
To open the report please click this link…
Ukraine Update 13
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