I don’t want war, I want to go to school: Ukrainian child’s plea at Bashtanka refugee centre
India Today
Over a month after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, millions of people have been forced to flee from their homes. The town of Bashtanka in southern Ukraine has become a central point for refugees from nearby Russian-occupied towns.
A Ukrainian child in Bashtanka refugee centre wishes the war would just end so that she can go back to school. The young girl is among the thousands of children who have been forced out of their cities and have had their lives turned upside down due to the Russian attack on Ukraine.
Anastasia, who along with her mother, was brought to the refugee centre in Bashtanka, recalls the horrors of the war.
"There were tanks and trucks everywhere. I don't want war, I want to go to school,” Anastasia told India Today.
India Today team reached the refugee centre in Bashtanka, which is a city in Mykolaiv Oblast of Ukraine. Bashtanka has been under intense attacks by the Russia forces. Rescue buses have been bringing refugees from Russian-controlled town of Snihurivka, which is about 60 kilometres east of Mykolaiv.
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The buses have something written on them, and when India Today asked the person in-charge of the refugee centre about the writing on the buses, he said that they have been marked as buses carrying children. He informed that the buses were carrying refugees from Russian-occupied region of Mykolaiv.
More than a month after Russia declared war on Ukraine, the civilians have been facing the worst of it. The Ukrainians have been facing undescribable terror, as the Russian troops bombarded cities.
