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The first family from Ukraine came to Skafidia – Ilia “opens” its arms!

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THE Ukraine lives the most difficult moments of its history. Fear and terror have been lurking everywhere for 21 days. Residents are in despair. The Russian invasion and the continuous bombings they force the inhabitants to gather a few things and together with their families sometimes and without them to look for a safer place.
With one suitcase in the hand and with the necessary they try to find a way out of the vortex of war not knowing if and when they will face their homeland and their own people again. But even if this is done, nothing will be the same as before…

One such example is Natalia Karatza from his Greek village Sartanawhose family has its roots in the Revolution of 1821 and together with three children of, they left the bombed their home in Mariupol and came to Ilia in order to find safe refuge in Skafidia camps, but leaving behind her husband and the rest of her family without knowing if they are well and in what condition.

In fact, as she confesses, her only dream is to return to her homeland when peace returns.

The Natalie and her three children that until the facilities of Skafidia are ready they will stay in a hotel, welcomed in Pyrgos the Ilios president of the Hellenic-Ukrainian Friendship Association “O Faros”, Michalis Rodopoulos who met the family in 2015 during a trip to Mariupol and the time has come to reciprocate the hospitality they provided him then. Mr. Rodopoulos also made it known that by next week the camp in Skafidia will be full and in this direction, the preparations are feverish!

Michalis Rodopoulos, President of the Greek-Ukrainian Friendship Association “O Faros” – “As they hosted me, so we will host them here”

“I met the family in 2015 when I went to Mariupol. It is the first family that will be hosted in the camp of Skafidia that His Eminence has given us and we came here to Pyrgos which is my heart and soul. As they hosted me in Mariupol, so we will host them here. The camp will be full and by next Tuesday or Wednesday the facilities will be ready and for this reason the crews are working “.

Natalia Karatza, war refugee – “We left to escape”

«We left because we have a war. Russian troops bomb Ukrainian cities. We came from Mariupol. There is nothing left there. And those who stayed there have nothing. Everything has been bombed. We still have our own people there but we do not know what their situation is and we do not have any way to communicate with them. We left to escape. My husband is in Dnipro and I do not know how he is. Our house in Mariupol was bombed. In Pyrgos we will stay at the hotel until the camp opens. “My dream is peace and I want to go back.”

The numbers of… uprooting

Almost 10,000 refugees have come from Ukraine in Greece since the beginning of the war. In particular, 9,875 Ukrainian citizens have crossed the border, of whom 3,201 are minors.

The civil protection Ministry based on data from the Hellenic Police Headquarters, announced that the latter 24 hours in Hellas they entered 571 Ukrainian refugeesof which 198 minors.

Analytically:

From the Bastion: 346

From Evzoni: 49

Of the other land borders: 49

82 people arrived at the “Eleftherios Venizelos” airport and 45 at the “Macedonia” airport.

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