An emotional video captured the moment when an entire school welcomed Ukrainian refugee children when they arrived for their first day after fleeing the Russian invasion of their country.
The images, filmed last week, show 200 students and teachers gathered at the main entrance of the Don Milani Institute in Naples, Italy, to warmly welcome the two children, two brothers named Dmitri, aged ten, and Victoria, age eight.
The crowd erupted with applause as the brothers walked through the main gates and continued to applaud while waving yellow and blue Ukrainian national flags.
The children were then introduced to what appeared to be chaperone students to guide them through their first day at school in the Pomigliano d'Arco district of Naples.
Last week, another Italian school organized a birthday party for two Ukrainian orphans who were forced to flee their homes.
The couple were welcomed by local mayor Gianfranco Tedeschi at the Magicabula center in Cerchio, southern Italy.
Some 35,000 Ukrainian refugees who fled the war in their homeland have entered Italy, most of them through its north-eastern border with Slovenia.
Yesterday, the Ministry of the Interior tweeted that “34,851 refugees have entered Italy since the beginning of the conflict to date: 17,685 women, 3,040 men and 14,126 minors”
The ministry said last week that it had allocated more than 280 properties seized to the mafia to house long-term Ukrainian refugees.
Meanwhile, yesterday a Ukrainian woman died after a bus carrying more than 50 refugees fleeing the war capsized on the A14 motorway near Forli, a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northeastern Italy.
The Interior Ministry said the passengers, several of whom were injured, were taken to a nearby police barracks for initial assistance and would then resume their journey.
More than 2.2 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland since Moscow launched a total invasion of the country on February 24, and that number is expected to exceed 4 million in the coming days.
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