Now located in a currently quiet part of southeastern Ukraine, director of the Chabad-run orphanage says many of the almost 100 children are reliving trauma of 2014 war
Busloads of Jewish orphans from the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr near the Belarus border have escaped to southwestern Ukraine, and hope to cross into Romania and from there fly to Israel.
On Sunday, missiles fired from Belarus hit an airport in Zhytomyr, according to Reuters.
Just under 100 children, ages four to 18, are in the care of Chabad’s Alumim orphanage based in Zhytomyr. In a country with serious problems of alcoholism and drug abuse, some have no parents while others are so-called “social orphans,” with one or two parents who, for a range of reasons, are unable to cope with child-rearing.
