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Kira used social media apps to send her grandfather such messages as “When will you come for me?” or “I want to cry.”

Oleksandr learned about Kira’s predicament on March 28 after being contacted by the girlfriend. Kira Obedinska is seen in a hospital in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. “The nurses weren’t kind at all.” Kira also faced the prospect of being taken to an orphanage in Russia. Kira had attempted to escape from Mariupol with her father’s girlfriend, but was wounded in an explosion and taken to a hospital in Donetsk. Kira’s mother died shortly after her birth, and her father was killed by Russian shelling around March 17.

Kira may well have suffered a similar fate but for the actions of her grandfather, Oleksandr. It is believed that many Ukrainians have been transported to Russia for “re-education,” and forcibly made to work in remote areas. The girl, Kira Obedinska, was injured while trying to flee her hometown - Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine - and taken to a hospital in Donetsk, an eastern city under the control of Moscow-backed separatists. Kira Obedinska is hugged by her grandfather, Oleksandr, in Chernivtsi, western Ukraine, on May 18.īy Hiromi Uechi / Yomiuri Shimbun CorrespondentĬHERNIVTSI, Ukraine - The grandfather of a 12-year-old girl orphaned by the war in Ukraine made a timely intervention to stop her being taken to an orphanage in Russia.