At the Ukrainian border, a mother brings a stranger’s children to safety

The ban on men aged 18 to 60 leaving the country leads one father to take drastic action

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Clutching a mobile phone number of a woman she had never met, Nataliya Ableyeva crossed the border from Ukraine into Hungary entrusted with a precious cargo: a stranger's children.

Waiting at the border crossing on the Ukrainian side, Ableyeva had met a desperate 38-year-old man from her home town of Kamianets-Podilskyi, with his young son and daughter.