Vulnerable orphans fleeing Kyiv received by Poles and Hungarians

The disabled refugees, most of them children, disembarked the train into the cold wind of the platform and into the arms of dozens of Poles and Hungarians waiting to receive them

Disabled children are escorted to waiting buses, in Zahony, Hungary on Wednesday. Picture: Justin Spike/AP

Some of Ukraine’s most vulnerable citizens have reached safety in Poland through an effort of solidarity and compassion that transcended borders and raised a powerful counterpoint to war.

On Wednesday, a train pulled into the station in Zahony, Hungary carrying about 200 people with severe physical and mental disabilities — residents of two orphanages for the disabled in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv who were evacuated as Russian forces battered the city.