(ANSA) - PARIS, MARCH 22 - "We will not let the enemy kill our children": says Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, interviewed by the French newspaper Le Parisien.
In the interview, he recounts, in particular, his struggle to organize the evacuation of sick children in Ukraine.
How does she feel?
"Like a human being who has a war at home", she replies, who for a few days has been working on the so-called 'convoys of life', an unprecedented rescue operation carried out in collaboration with the Première dames of France and Poland.
"When it became clear that it was becoming impossible to treat children with cancer in bomb shelters, we immediately looked for a solution" to move them abroad.
"Some - Zelenska specifies - will stay in Poland, others will go to France, Italy, Germany, the United States, Canada".
Olga Zelenska explains that "children are not separated from loved ones.
an important element of the project.
Another key principle is that "they are treated for free. Cancer is a personal war for every family involved."
Now, he notes, "they have to fight on two fronts: with the disease and with the military context. It is an extremely complex test, he adds, citing the case of Anya, 12, from Kiev, who had only a few courses of chemotherapy before the end of her treatment. Would war have prevented this victory? Never. We cannot allow it. "
Since the beginning of the conflict we have "also more than 4,000 children in the undergrounds, in the metro, in bomb shelters and sometimes - he concludes - in bombed maternity wards such as in Mariupol".
Now, he notes, "they have to fight on two fronts: with the disease and with the military context. It is an extremely complex test, he adds, citing the case of Anya, 12, from Kiev, who had only a few courses of chemotherapy before the end of her treatment. Would war have prevented this victory? Never. We cannot allow it. "
Since the beginning of the conflict we have "also more than 4,000 children in the undergrounds, in the metro, in bomb shelters and sometimes - he concludes - in bombed maternity wards such as in Mariupol".
Now, he notes, "they have to fight on two fronts: with the disease and with the military context. It is an extremely complex test, he adds, citing the case of Anya, 12, from Kiev, who had only a few courses of chemotherapy before the end of her treatment. Would war have prevented this victory? Never. We cannot allow it. "
Since the beginning of the conflict we have "also more than 4,000 children in the undergrounds, in the metro, in bomb shelters and sometimes - he concludes - in bombed maternity wards such as in Mariupol".
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