Group of 100 children reaches safety

Group of children reaches safety

Some more hopeful news. A group of children who fled Poltava in central Ukraine have reached the west of the country, Qazet.az reports.

The nearly 100 children and their care workers were helped by a British charity to make the "very difficult" 48-hour journey.

"On the way we met a bus that broke down with women and small children," the care workers wrote. "We decided to pick them up, we had to squeeze in a lot. There were even premature babies."

Ken Hart, chairman of charity The Epaphras Trust, which organised the evacuation, described the fund-raising efforts in the British city Bristol as "essential".

"They gathered money and helped to put fuel in their buses - and the buses took these children to a place of safety," he said.