It was hard for the Royal Rangers rescuers to resist being moved when they brought 15 people with health problems or disabilities from Ukraine last weekend. The special convoy was on the road for almost three days and transported the war refugees to the Víteček center in Černošín in the Tachov region.

“It is a miracle that many people helped with,” said Tomáš Rusňák, commander of rescuers operating in the Tachov and Cheb regions.

Mariana, for example, came to western Bohemia, whose adopted eight-year-old son Vadim is blind, has a mental disability and has difficulty walking. “I didn’t want to leave Ukraine until the last moment. But God told me to go. Everyone close to me encouraged me to do so,” described the woman from Lviv, who has three other sons at home.

She is very grateful for asylum in the country. “I take it as a gift from heaven,” she said, addressing the driver of one of the Royal Rangers ambulances, Štěpán Pěnkava.

“Vadim is a wonderful boy and he handled the transport brilliantly. I am happy that everything worked out,” he said with tears in his eyes. His colleague Pavel Hrdlička also spoke similarly. “It always touches us,” he added.

Thanks to the convoy, the family of 17-year-old Roman from Zaporozhye also reached safety. He has a spinal condition and other health complications.

“When Russian soldiers attacked the nuclear power plant, we decided to flee. My son needs surgery, but Kiev is bombed out. We really appreciate all the help,” emphasized his mother Svetlana.

The journey took three days

However, getting the fifteen-member group from Ukraine was not at all easy. “It was originally supposed to be a 24-hour operation, but it ended up getting complicated and lasting almost three days,” Rusňák said.

He and his Royal Rangers comrades experienced a number of tense situations. For example, on the Slovak-Ukrainian border, soldiers stopped the convoy and wouldn’t let an 18-year-old boy with severe epilepsy go.

“They said he was subject to mobilization. We had to go to the headquarters, where we provided his medical documentation, and we were able to continue,” Rusňák said. During the trip, he returned to the war zone to pick up a girl who had been seriously injured in a car accident, while the rest of the convoy continued on to Černošín.

The refugees will stay in the Víteček center for several days. Then they will move to barrier-free apartments in Western and Central Bohemia.

(source: Novinky.cz)