The Daily Beast spoke to the head of an orphanage responsible for 225 children as they made the dangerous journey to a Russian checkpoint. “[It’s] a very tiring and stressful day and it is not even over,” Olga Volkova said, exasperated.
, one that could possibly involve targeting a bus full of evacuees. The looming threat of war is growing more likely by the hour, with Pushilin himself announcing that “The full-scale war can start any moment,” on Russian state television, and U.S. President Joe Biden saying he is “convinced” that Putin has made the call to invade Ukraine.
The orphanage staff, meanwhile, have had to rely on rumors to get a sense of where they’ll be staying once they reach their destination. Some have been told they might be placed at a sanatorium in Roskov. “We remember the war too well,” she said. “A trolleybus was blown up with 10 passengers in our Leninsky district of Donetsk in 2015. One shell hit a football field on the territory of our orphanage, another the corner of our building, but thank God the children were away that summer.”
Neither Vokova nor Prilipko’s bus had crossed the checkpoint into Russia by 11 p.m. local time on Friday.
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