Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) – Since the beginning of the war in February 2022, Baden-Württemberg has taken in more than 128,000 refugees from Ukraine. Among them are a good 47,000 children or young people, said State Secretary for Migration Siegfried Lorek on Monday in Stuttgart. “In Baden-Württemberg, more than a third of the Ukrainian refugees are still minors. They are babies, children and young people who come to us for protection from the war in their home country,” said Lorek on this year’s World Children’s Day on September 20.
The brutal Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is a daily reminder of how children and young people are victims of violence, expulsion and despotism on their own doorstep. Millions of children around the world are fleeing – often without parents or relatives. “It’s a humanitarian catastrophe. I’m glad that Baden-Württemberg is doing everything it can to offer protection to the children who come to us.”
