Hassan travelled alone with only a plastic bag, passport, and telephone number scribbled on his hand, in a story that made international headlines.
An 11-year-old boy who braved a 600-mile journey from southeastern Ukraine to the Slovakian border has spoken of his happiness after being reunited with his siblings.
They managed to contact his family in the country using the phone number and a note that was tied to his waist.supports HTML5 videoSpeaking on Good Morning Britain via video link, Hassan and his four older siblings spoke of their joy at being reunited in Bratislava.His older sister, who translated his words, told the show: ‘He says the most important is to be in the place where he has family.
His mother put him on a train heading for the border in the hope he would be taken in by kind-hearted strangers.In a video, Yulia said: ‘There’s a nuclear power plant next to my town, which the Russians were shooting at. It was on fire. Asked about the scariest part of his journey, Hassan said it was travelling in a crowded train carriage surrounded by strangers.Hs mother could not go with him as she is looking after her immobile mother ‘The kids and the people were sitting in the hall and everyone was talking in foreign languages and he wasn’t understanding so that was the scariest [part of the journey] for him.’
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