Cork voluntary group warns Ukrainian orphans 'will die from extreme temperatures'

May 2022: In the courtyard of their house, Vlad Tanyuk, 6, stands near the grave of his mother Maryna Tanyuk, who died because of starvation and stress due to the war, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. Picture: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd/Serhii Myhalchuk

A Cork-based voluntary group is scrambling to help hundreds of orphaned children in Ukraine.

The children are in the previously safe town of Chervonorad in western Ukraine, which has recently come under bombardment by the Russians.