In the lobby of a conference hotel in Poland, we are met by a polite Ukrainian boy on crutches who was evacuated here last year with 700 other children, turning this into Europe’s largest orphanage.
Euhen Suyshch, 18, who has cerebral palsy and has been in state care since he was six, has been taken under the wing of the Ossa Conference Centre security staff, who have given him a radio, an ear-piece and an ID lanyard.
When asked about the traumatic evacuation a year ago, he tells us: “It was scary. We didn’t know where we were going or even which country we were being sent to. It was top secret.
