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This Is Why

The Ukrainian children rescued from Russia

This Is Why

Sky News

News Commentary, Daily News, News

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Natalya ran a children's care home in southeastern Ukraine when Russian forces invaded in February 2022. Soldiers turned up at her door saying they were taking the children to Russia, and she insisted on going with them.

Thousands of Ukrainian children have been illegally taken to Russia over the course of the war but Natalya and her children are some of the few who have escaped.

Russia claims it is giving them sanctuary from the horrors of war.

On the Sky New Daily, host Sally Lockwood is joined by aid volunteer Kathy Stickel, who helped rescue the children from Russia, and our international affairs editor, Dominic Waghorn, who's been out to Tbilisi, Georgia, to meet them.

Podcast Producer: Rosie Gillott
Editors: Philly Beaumont and Paul Stanworth

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you?

0:04.0

Fine, she'd say.

0:06.0

She clearly wasn't.

0:07.0

After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot.

0:11.0

Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college,

0:15.0

same skills but with new people, new challenges.

0:19.0

Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief.

0:23.2

Can't get a word in.

0:25.0

Give your skills new life.

0:26.5

Train others.

0:27.7

Search jobs in further education.

0:30.1

This Easter at M&S, you'll find a selection of the yummias chocolate animals.

0:34.5

There's hiccup the hippo with his darling chubby little legs. And Sunny the

0:38.9

sloth beaming with his milk and white chocolate features. Toby the T-Rex, who's a bit green,

0:44.6

bit scary, but charming at the same time. And Ralph the Cavapoo. I almost don't want to bite

0:50.6

his scrumptious little nose right off, but I will. All of these cuties for just seven pounds each.

0:56.0

This is not just food.

0:58.0

This is M&S food.

0:59.0

Selected stores.

1:05.0

That's a group of Ukrainian children playing in the sunshine in Tbilisi, Georgia.

1:10.0

Hearing their laughter, it's hard to believe what they've been through.

1:18.3

For months, they sheltered in a basement in Ukraine, with no running water and a sound of fighting and explosions nearby.

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