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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sheila Flynn

Agony of orphans stranded in Ukraine as adoptive US parents battle to get them out

Estes Family

When the seven-year-old orphan from Ukraine arrived in Chicago right before Christmas to stay with his suburban host family, “he immediately fell into my wife’s arms,” Anthony Estes tells The Independent.

The air traffic controller and his wife, who already have two children of their own along with custody of their niece, had decided to take the boy into their home after hearing about an international programme for hosting orphans.

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