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Twenty-five Ukrainian children with cancer have arrived this Friday accompanied by their relatives at the

Torrejón

air base in

Madrid

to continue their treatment in Spain, interrupted after Russia's attack on Ukraine.

The

Ministry of Defense

has informed around 6:00 pm of the landing in Torrejón of

the A400 plane

of

the Air Force

that was transporting the children and their relatives from

Poland

, and in which another 22 displaced by the war were also traveling.

These children will be transferred to the refugee reception and reception center in

Pozuelo de Alarcón

(Madrid), the first of the three authorized by the Government to open its doors to channel emergency reception and the processing of the papers of the displaced, by which this Friday a hundred Ukrainians have already passed.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has spoken this Friday about thirty sick children and 45 relatives, but Defense puts these children at 25 and does not detail the number of people who accompany them.

For its part, sources from the

Ministry of Health

of the Community of Madrid specify that there are 23 Ukrainian children who will receive cancer treatment in four public hospitals in the region.

Specifically, seven will go to

Hospital La Paz

, six to

Niño Jesús

, five to

Gregorio Marañón

and five to

Twelve October

.

The Government calculates that in the center of Pozuelo, which has rooms for 400 people and was a Social Security training center, the arrival of about 450 Ukrainians is processed daily.

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