Terrified children in Ukrainian orphanages funded by Edinburgh football fans are forced to huddle in cramped corridors up to six times a day as air raid sirens echo around the streets amid the threat of Russian bombing campaigns.
Dnipro Kids founder Stevie Carr admits the organisation is desperate to bring dozens of young people to Scotland from a “life or death situation” in the country following the invasion by Kremlin forces.
The 55-year-old believes the capital’s large Ukrainian diaspora community could provide the ideal safe haven for the children after helping fund projects in the area for the past 17 years.
