Stories of Heroism: Kind Woman Helps Another Mother Out of Ukraine to Get Her Children to Safety

• Amidst the Ukrainian-Russian crisis, little acts of heroism are constantly emerging as the war begins to take a humanitarian turn
• A very kind woman has helped a Ukrainian mother during the invasion of the country by Russia
• The children's father could not leave Ukraine due to a new law requiring all men to stay back and fight, so he handed the children over to a woman known as Ableyeva
• Ableyeva successfully brought the children, a boy and a girl, to safety at the Hungarian border where she handed them over to their mother, Anna Semyuk

A Ukrainian father could not leave the country with his children due to a new decree requiring all men to stay back and fight the Russian invaders.

He took his two children, a boy and a girl, trying to see how he could cross them to the border. He was not allowed passage by border control agents.

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Trusting a kind stranger in a time of crisis

He therefore simply handed the children to a stranger, a woman named Ableyeva who was crossing to Hungary. The woman was to deliver the children to their mother who was out of Ukraine at the time and who was coming from Italy to take delivery of the children, Reuters reports.

Children finally reunite with their mum

The kind stranger, Ableyeva has successfully reunited the children with their mother, fulfilling the trust placed on her by their father. Reacting, the woman said:

"Their father simply handed over the two kids to me, and trusted me, giving me their passports to bring them over."

In a comment, the children's mother, Anna Semyuk, said:

"All I can say to my kids now, is that everything will be alright. In one or two weeks, and we will go home."

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Ukrainian mum who delivered a baby on the night of Russian invasion says she heard explosions during labour

Briefly News reported that a mother who gave birth in Ukraine on the very night the country was invaded by Russia has now come out to share her scary experience.

The woman, identified as Svitlana, went into labour on the night of 24 February and was driven to the hospital by her husband amid blaring sirens.

When she was delivering in the hospital, the mum said she could hear mortar shellings and explosions. She said she was scared and had to hold her husband's hand so tightly out of fear.

Source: Briefly News