Awakened on the night of February 24 by planes and sirens, Yullia, 36, fled the city of Dnipro in Ukraine, with her two sons, Sviatoslav, 10, and Leonid, 8.
“My husband was in kyiv.
He immediately hit the road.
We understood that we had to leave to save our children.
My sister lives in France.
It was our only option
.
With
their neighbor, Ola, and her 10-year-old daughter, Kira, they leave and reach the Moldovan border the next day.
“We had to abandon our husbands”,
continues the young woman.
It is while crying profusely that she tells the story of this flight to Brigitte Macron and to the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, in the Jean-Jacques-Rousseau school, in Épinay-sur-Seine (Seine -Saint-Denis), where the three children have been in school since Monday.
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