The BBC has been given exclusive access to an institution in western Ukraine, where disabled children from the east have been left by their carers who fled to neighbouring countries.

The occupied territories of Ukraine are close to a humanitarian catastrophe. The Happy Child Foundation is ready to help them.

The drama surrounding the adoption of the stateless Ukrainian orphan Bridget has come to an end. The six-year-old from Zaporizhzhia has now been able to leave the country after her American adoptive parents braved the war to come get her.

Cars packed full of women, children, prized pets and hastily gathered belongings piled in every free corner, continue to arrive at the refugee centre in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhya.

Without financial support, the work of our foundation might be halted.

We purchased equipment, tools and consumables.

Every day we need from 20 to 40 thousand hryvnias for the purchase of medicines and food in the villages of the Vasilyevsky district.

We are opening a fundraising to obtain 1,120 kg of chicken to feed people in the Zaporizhzhia shelters.

In recent weeks, one of the tasks of the fund was the delivery of medicines to residents of the occupied villages.

In connection with the martial law on the territory of Ukraine and the armed aggression of Russia, now the Service for Children of the Zaporozhye region is engaged not only in protecting their rights, but also in protecting their lives.

During the war, everyone does everything possible on their front. Our front is families.

Because of the shelling and explosions from the weapons of the Russian invaders, our children receive huge wounds that take a long time to heal. Each dressing is a new injury and pain.

The horrors of Russia's war in Ukraine are on full display in the children's hospital of Zaporizhzhia. Doctors there spend their days removing shrapnel from the bodies of young war victims as they prepare for a future that could be even bloodier.

Atotal of 159 children from orphanages in conflict-ridden Ukraine arrived in the southern Turkish province of Antalya on Sunday.

Today, 11-year old Milena Uralova is simply fighting for her right to life.

A victim of Putin's war and he's not yet three years old.

The international organization "Refugee Protection International" helped to purchase a car for evacuation. Thank you colleagues!

A short story about our work in wartime.