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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Miriam Jordan

Ukrainian children are being separated from caregivers at US Border

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After Iryna Merezhko persuaded her sister in Ukraine that her young nephew should join her in Los Angeles to wait out the war, she travelled halfway around the globe to pick him up.

“I told him it would be a California vacation,” she recalled. “We would go to Disneyland, Universal Studios, the beach.”

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