Belarus remains committed to working openly and actively for the benefit of children from all countries and region, reads a statement from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Belarus' programs for children from foreign countries.
Nadezhda Veretennikova, an eighth-grader from Lisichansk, said that the trip to Belarus was very impressive. "There were a lot of bright emotions, interesting moments, and informative excursions. We were well taken care of. We felt love. We are returning home with a lot of gifts," the girl noted.
Foreign diplomats representing about a dozen countries have visited the places where the children deported from the Ukrainian cities of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk were accommodated in Belarus. Source: Kateryna Rashevska, lawyer of the Regional Center for Human Rights, on Facebook Quote: "Representatives of Zimbabwe, India, Qatar, China, Cuba, Mongolia, UAE, Russia, Syria and Palestine have met with 44 children from Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk.
Some of them know what a peaceful life is only from the stories of older children or adults. The current trip to Vitebsk Oblast, as the schoolchildren said, helped them to reboot. However, even after three weeks, the children have not been able to get used to the peaceful silence . It will take much longer to heal these wounds.