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Alexander Obedinsky is calling on all humanitarian associations and political leaders to help him be able to welcome and embrace his 12-year-old granddaughter Kira again. 

From 11 March onward, following the bombings that destroyed Mariupol in Ukraine, Alexander hasn’t receive any news from his son Eugene -- Kira’s father and the former captain of the Ukrainian national water polo team. 

A few days ago, however, Kira managed to call Alexander and tell him that her father had been killed and that she, after being sheltered in a shelter, had to run away with her father's partner (her mother died when she was born), because it was not safe to stay. While she fled, she was injured on her ear, legs and arms by a mine. She was first taken to a village near Mariupol and then to a hospital in Donetsk. 

Kira told her grandfather, who is in Cernivci, what happened to her and confesses that she is very afraid that she will be taken to Russia. She told him that she saw the body of her father loaded onto a military truck but that she has his mobile phone, with which she can communicate with her grandfather for a few minutes a day. 

As in any war, there are hundreds of children like Kira who are suffering unfairly, but this story also tells us that Kira and her grandfather are perhaps still alive and that they could find each other again. 

With this petition I would like to keep this hope alive and try with your support to bring little Kira home. Thank you.