It’s a touching moment when Spanish students hugged their new Ukrainian classmate on the first day of school.
Moving footage shows a schoolteacher introducing her students to their new classmate, a small child who has just arrived from Ukraine as a refugee after a month-long war.
The video was filmed at the CEIP Peru School in Madrid, Spain, and was shared by Oleksandr Shcherba, 51, a Ukrainian diplomat who served as Ukraine’s ambassador to Austria until 2021.
It is reported that the child arrived in Spain with his mother and three-month-old sister to join relatives already living there.
The boy’s father could not join them, as he was forced to stay in Ukraine to fight the Russian invaders under martial law in the country.
The touching footage shows local schoolchildren gathering around and hugging the little boy, who is clearly surprised and unsure how to react.
It’s a touching moment as the students crowd around a Ukrainian refugee who has just joined their class and give him a big hug.
He eventually broke into a wide smile as the boys and girls from his new class hugged him at the same time, and one little boy even came back for a few seconds.
The teacher can be seen apparently explaining to the students that the boy, who has not been named, will be joining their class.
Other adults who appear to be parents can be seen standing around and letting the kids deal with it.
Local schoolchildren can be seen gathering around the little boy and hugging him, the boy is clearly surprised and doesn’t know how to react.
Although he has yet to learn how to speak Spanish, according to his uncle, the young lad is already playing with his new classmates.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said Sunday that at least 115 children have died since Putin launched his so-called “special military operation” to “denazify” Ukraine.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Russia to immediately stop its illegal invasion of Ukraine.
The touching scenes in the Spanish classroom came after an entire school welcomed Ukrainian refugee children to Italy last week when they arrived on their first day after fleeing the Russian invasion.
It’s an incredible moment when the entire school greeted the Ukrainian refugee students, whom locals refer to as siblings of Dmitri, 10, and Victoria, 8, with cheers when they arrived on their first day after fleeing the Russian invasion.
The children were then introduced to their accompanying students, who accompanied them on their first day at an Italian school in the Neapolitan region of Pomigliano d’Arco.
Students and teachers in Italy gathered at the main entrance of the Don Milani Institute in Naples to greet the two children. The crowd erupted in applause as the couple walked through the front doors and continued to applaud for a few moments while waving the yellow and blue Ukrainian national flags.
More than 200 students and teachers gathered at the main entrance of the Don Milani Institute in Naples to greet the two children, whom the locals call siblings Dimitri, 10, and Victoria, 8.
The crowd erupted in applause as the couple walked through the front doors and continued to applaud while waving the yellow and blue national flags of Ukraine.
The children were then introduced to what appeared to be student chaperones who had accompanied them on their first day of school in the Pomigliano d’Arco area of Naples.
More than 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of the country on February 24, and that figure is expected to rise sharply in the coming days as the war intensifies.
Footage from the school shows at least 200 students and teachers taking part in the warm welcome.
Earlier this month, another Italian school hosted a birthday party for two Ukrainian orphans who were forced to leave their homes.
The couple were welcomed by local mayor Gianfranco Tedeschi at the Magicabula center in Cerchio, southern Italy.
About 54,000 Ukrainian refugees who fled the war in their homeland arrived in Italy, most of them through its northeastern border with Slovenia.
The interior ministry said last week that it had earmarked more than 280 properties seized from the mafia for long-term housing for Ukrainian refugees.
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