It is one year of the arrival in Spain of 60 Ukrainian minors suffering from cancer. They have received treatment and continue their lives between school, the hospital and the barriers of adaptation.

It is the case of Mykyta Poliakov, 14, who suffers from cancer in the lymphatic system. He managed to flee the bombs in his country and treat the disease. “Mykyta does not hear bombings. Here -in Spain- he is not nervous, he spends more time with his family and you can go to the hospital in peace“, says Anastasia Hrynzovska, her sister-in-law, to the Sixth.

in Mariupol his family remained hidden in a bunker, where the young man received his treatment. “We were in the basement of a large apartment because there was no room in a hospital,” says his mother, Liudmyla Poliakova senior, as you can see in the video.

Ishtar Espejo, director of the Aladina Foundation, recalled the arrival of more than 60 children cancer patients with their relatives, who were offered accommodationfood, interpreters… “They have become our children this year,” Espejo told laSexta.