The woman in the photo is wearing a Steaua Bucharest football shirt and there is
joy in her face as she hugs a wide-eyed Ukrainian boy one day shy of his seventh birthday.
Cleb has fled with his mother and grandparents from Ukraine ’s Irpin, where they were confronted by armoured vehicles and travelled for days before arriving in Siret, a small town on the border with Romania.
The photo is touching, especially if you know Lenuta Gavriluta’s background. The 43-year-old was abandoned at birth and grew up in one of Romania’s most notorious orphanages.
