(ANSA) - ROME, APR 8 - Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska on
Friday appealed to the Italian people and institutions to take
in more of the country's children, especially sick ones,
following the Russian invasion.
"Italy has taken over 150 (Ukrainian) children into its
hospitals," Zelenska told RAI's Gr1 radio programme.
"The Vatican has also got moving, taking our little ones in to
(its) Bambino Gesù (children's) hospital (in Rome), where the
pope went to visit them and bless them.
"I invite all the Italian people and institutions that can to
host our children to offer them refuge, medical treatment,
rehabilitation.
"Today the rights of Ukrainian children are being violated by
the invader, who is bombing hospitals, schools and residential
buildings," she continued.
"Already 250 have died". (ANSA).
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