Saving the lost boys and girls of heroic Ukraine

Pete Miller has written for The Society describing what it is like to fight for young people forced to face the world alone by Putin. Pete is church administrator and chairman of the council for Faith Community in Bratislava

I am a Brit living in Slovakia married to a Slovak. We have two young Ukrainians staying with us.

They arrived two days ago after travelling for five days, 16 hours at the border.

The boy is 17 and his sister 20. they are from Sumy close to the Russian border.

When they were dropped off at our home I broke down, all they had were little rucksacks like the kids take to school with their books.

Parents and three brothers have stayed behind to fight – God bless them.

This is the reality of what is happening. We had to take them shopping yesterday morning and they are so grateful.

We, as a country, were not prepared to go in and fight, for reasons I understand, but at least we can show more love and humanity to our fellow man. These two youngsters want to go to the US. Problem is young man has only an ID card.

The US embassy told me they do not provide any humanitarian aid to citizens of Ukraine yet. They will probably join in late like they did with WW 1 and 11 and then claim all the credit.
We have just taken another two 20 year old Ukrainian girls to other accommodation we have found.

They also need food and clothing.

It is still very cold here, especially at night. Our International Church here in Bratislava is doing all it can to help, our resources are finite, but fortunately we trust in a God with infinite resources.

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