"Tsunami of goodwill": Ukrainian orphans welcomed in Lithuania shelters


  • World
  • Friday, 11 Mar 2022

Ukrainian orphans sit at a lunch table in Trakai, Lithuania March 9, 2022. Picture taken March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Janis Laizans

TRAKAI, Lithuania (Reuters) - Forty-four children from an orphanage in eastern Ukraine settled in Lithuanian Trakai resort last week, after a 36-hour bus journey through bombed country.

The United Nations refugee agency said over 2.3 million people have fled Ukraine since war began, as fighting intensified following Russia's invasion, which Moscow calls a "special operation."

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