Bus Full of Orphans Makes Terrifying Getaway as Russian War Looms

[babylonsister]

Bus Full of Orphans Makes Terrifying Getaway as Russian War Looms
TREACHEROUS ROADS
The Daily Beast spoke to the head of an orphanage responsible for 225 children as they made the dangerous journey to a Russian checkpoint.
Anna Nemtsova
Published Feb. 18, 2022 7:05PM ET


MOSCOW—Olga Volkova, the director of orphanage #1 in Ukraine’s breakaway republic of Donetsk, is in the middle of one of the darkest, most difficult nights of her life.

After Denis Pushilin, the pro-Russian leader of the separatist territory, declared a mass evacuation of women and children in the region at 4 p.m. local time on Friday, the director and her team were given just two hours to pack up the belongings of some 225 orphans and put them on ten buses headed to the Russian region of Rostov.

Five hours later, an exhausted and emotional Volkova spoke with The Daily Beast on the phone. She was already aboard one of the buses, and was unclear as to what awaits her and the hundreds of children under her care.

“[It’s] a very tiring and stressful day and it is not even over,” she told The Daily Beast, exasperated. She described chaos in the streets on the way over, with massive traffic jams and panicked citizens jumping over cars in a rush to get out. The situation on the road is so bad that the bus carrying Volkova was still en route after six hours of driving to a destination that usually takes only two hours to reach from the orphanage.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/bus-full-of-orphans-in-donetsk-makes-terrifying-getaway-to-russia-as-war-against-ukraine-looms?ref=home

[msongs]

1. OMMG fleeing the baby eating Ukranian hordes. is this from RT?

and put them on ten buses headed to the Russian region of Rostov.

[babylonsister]

2. Huh? Ukrainians are fleeing. nt

[BlueSpot]

4. Fleeing to Russia

Draw your own conclusions.

[msongs]

5. these ppl are heading from russian occupied ukraine territory to russia itself nt

[babylonsister]

6. Yes, I read that. I was more focused on how terrified

everyone is. I can only hope their destination is a port in this storm.

[maxsolomon]

3. Crimony.

So... Pushilin is creating a panic... at Putin's behest?

Is Ukraine actually shelling Donetsk now? Are they just returning fire?

Is Daily Beast reporting disinformation? Is it exposing false provocations?

So many questions.

[NickB79]

7. Were the babies in incubators ok though

How many did the Iraqi, er I mean, Ukrainian troops throw out?

[Shellback Squid]

8. I wonder who side we're on

[denbot]

11. Not Russia's

[quakerboy]

9. Funny that. If Russia wasnt holding several provinces of a foriegn country by force

there wouldn't be any fighting to speak of. No need to evacuate anything.

[2naSalit]

10. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017713415