'We didn't understand why [the Russians] took us. We were afraid of them, and afraid of being in Russia.'
A group of Ukrainian orphans who were taken by Russian troops is now free and residing in Georgia.Shortly after Russia began its deadly invasion of Ukraine last March, Ukrainian officials and human rights groups warned that Russian forces had begun abducting and forcibly relocating thousands of Ukrainian children.
"If only I had known what was waiting for us," she said. "If only I had known what would happen. Then I would have taken their backpacks and gone on foot with them. I couldn't believe that that horror would last so long. I thought everything would end soon." "I just don't know how else you would describe it,” Wight said. "Especially with our situation, with having ours be adopted, obviously, she didn't want to be there. She wanted to come home to her family. They did-- they captured those kids."
Wight reached out to a group of volunteers from the Christian charity Borderlands International who were in Ukraine helping evacuate people. Kathy Stickel, one of the volunteers who later joined the effort told ABC News the team came to realize the orphanage was behind Russian lines "They secured the orphanage the whole night. They counted children in the shelter. They checked if I was hiding somebody. They really were patrolling, walking between rooms," she said.
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