(ANSA) – ARRONE (TERNI), 28 FEB – A trolley with school books, a teddy bear, an envelope with some spare clothes. This is all that Ivanna, 31, and her daughters Vladyslava and Alina, five and seven, managed to scrape together from their home in Ivano Frankivsk, in western Ukraine, in the rush to escape the Russian invasion. Among the first refugees arriving in Italy by bus, since Sunday, after a grueling journey of almost 48 hours, their mother and daughters are in Arrone, where they have joined the woman’s partner, Volodymyr, and his mother, Giulia. “But the hope is to stay here for a little while. We want to go home, to our normality,” Ivanna told ANSA, who until Friday morning worked as a clerk in a butcher’s shop in her town.
When the anti-aircraft sirens started to ring and the shop owner closed the business, in a few hours the young woman – who recently also lost her mother and father to Covid – was able to get on a vehicle bound for Italy with the girls. . “We had to wait hours before leaving, hidden in the bus, while we heard the sound of missiles around us” continues Ivanna. She then she waits another 17 hours at the border, before being able to leave the country together with many other women, children and the elderly. Until the arrival in Arrone.
In the central Umbrian house, the TV is on 24 hours a day on the Ukrainian channel. The progress of the negotiations is now awaited.
“We are stressed, agitated,” Volodymyr says. “The older girl – she continues – wanted to take the books with her because she says she has to study and go back to school, the youngest asks me ‘is it true that you won’t abandon me?’. And when she sees the tanks on TV and me he asks why they burn, I tell him that they are broken. We don’t want to tell her everything, we try not to make her understand “.
No one in the family is working at the moment and in the meantime a real solidarity competition has started in Arrone to help Ivanna and her daughters. “Somehow we will manage to go on” assures Giulia. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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