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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Ambrose

Ukrainian orphans en route to Scotland after landing in UK

The children, who travelled with carers and a translator, at Chopin airport in Poland on Wednesday as they prepared to fly to UK.
The children, who travelled with carers and a translator, at Chopin airport in Poland on Wednesday as they prepared to fly to UK. Photograph: Czarek Sokołowski/AP

A group of 54 Ukrainian orphans fleeing the horrors of Vladimir Putin’s war arrived safely at Heathrow airport on Wednesday night.

None of the children, from orphanages in Dnipro, central Ukraine, had been on a plane before. Aged between two and 18, they ran up and down the aisles, watched TV shows and played with Disney stuffed toys as they escaped the escalating Russian violence.

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