Parliamentarians from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine visited Bucharest
Articol de Alina Stănuţă, 10 Mai 2022, 21:57
Senators from the Commission on Human Rights discussed today with parliamentarians from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Bucharest about the conflict in Ukraine and how the refugees from the neighboring country were supported, how the authorities are involved and what can be done next to support them even further, while officials in Kyiv thanked Romania for its help during this difficult time.
The chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission, USR Senator Anca Dragu, said during the meeting that since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Romanian citizens have mobilized and helped refugees from the neighboring country.
Anca Dragu: Since the beginning of the war, 902.000 Ukrainian citizens have come to Romania, we have 4.345 asylum seekers from Ukraine. The numbers are high, and we hope that the students and preschoolers from Ukraine have found a home in Romania in these difficult times.
"In your country our citizens have found refuge, and for that we thank you and we are grateful", said Ludmila Marchenko, head of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada delegation.
Ludmila Marchenko: A period of reconstruction of Ukraine is coming and I am sure that Romania will participate in this process. But today we call again for your support and help, we call on you to oppose Russia. Ukrainians are a free people. For us, any life lost in this war is a tragedy. For Russia, this is just a statistic.
More than 8 million people in Ukraine have been forced to flee their homes since the beginning of the war and find a new place to live within the country's borders, according to the latest data centralized by the UN agency specializing in migration issues.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that the number of those forced to flee Russia's war is even higher: 13 million seven hundred thousand, because many Ukrainians have crossed the border into neighboring countries.
On the other hand, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says two-thirds of the 1.5 million people have returned to their homes.
He explained that in Kyiv there are still night travel bans and checkpoints, but if people are not scared of these problems, they can return.
Klitschko also said that he could not forbid the people of Kiev who left the capital at the beginning of the war to return, but he called for caution.
Translated by: Radu Matei
