Photo: Russian civilians staying in a shelter in Ukraine’s Sumy region, on Feb. 7, after they were evacuated following a strike on the school-turned-shelter where they were staying in the Russian town of Sudzha.
Journalists from The Washington Post talked to evacuees from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation who were recently transported to Ukraine after the tragic event of the shelling of a boarding school in the town of Sudzha. Most of them are elderly people who lost all their property.
The shelling occurred on 1 February and caused significant damage and casualties among civilians seeking refuge from the ongoing fighting. According to the Ukrainian authorities, up to 95 people were trapped in the rubble of the orphanage, of whom four were eventually killed and four others injured. All others were successfully rescued.
This evacuation was one of the largest operations to move Russian civilians since the beginning of the conflict in the region , according to WP. Red Cross workers in Ukraine met tired but grateful people who had been rescued.
Among the evacuees was a woman who had spent a whole day under the rubble. She shared with journalists her fears and hopes for a safe future. Another man, despite everything that had happened, expressed his support for President Vladimir Putin, saying that he continued to believe in his policies.
The publication also published photographs of evacuees, mostly of elderly people who are now looking for a new place to live, far from their homes, which are in the midst of the military conflict.
