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An octogenarian in a wheelchair, pushed by what seemed to be his wife.

A 40-year-old woman, followed by two teenagers.

Two young people who have just processed their NIE to look for work in Spain.

The trickle of Ukrainians who enter and leave the

Resource Center for Attention to Cultural Diversity in Education

(Creade) in

Pozuelo de Alarcón

(Madrid) is constant, as the Kings and their daughters could verify this Saturday in a visit they made in Full Holy Saturday.

In these offices, based in

Madrid

,

Barcelona

,

​​Alicante

and

Malaga

, care is coordinated for the 110,000 Ukrainian refugees who have already arrived in Spain.

Many go to do a paperwork, but others need to stay several days in this center, which has a hotel and a food court thanks to World Central Kitchen, the foundation of chef

José Andrés

.

Inside the center, the children play in a huge courtyard, where the King and Queen arrived at half past six accompanied by the Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Sofía.

When half of Spain was still enjoying the Easter holidays, they chose to spend the Resurrection vigil with the refugees.

“I have brought my daughters because I want them to be aware of the situation,” explained the King to

Svitkana Korniienko

, a woman who arrived in Spain with two of her children on March 3 and who has been working as a government interpreter for a few weeks. from Spain.

It was not planned that she would share a table with the Monarch and his family, however, at one point during the visit they asked her to do the translation work.

Because the Kings did not want to turn this appearance into something institutional, but to know the reality of the center.

The young

Ladislav,

14, was nervous after the King approached him and his friends.

“I knew who he was because I have been in Spain for four years, but all the people who go with him have surprised me,” he told this newspaper with a laugh.

Ladislav was with his mother at the Creade: "My father is still in kyiv and that torments me a bit," he later confessed, much more seriously.

Nor could the woman who shared a table with the Kings hide his tears, who received the affection of Don Felipe after listening attentively to his personal story: he was 75 years old and had arrived in Spain with his daughter.

The visit to Creade reinforces the Royal House's commitment to the Ukrainian people.

A position that the King showed at the end of February, when he condemned the war during a speech.

Since then, words of support for Ukraine have been in all of his speeches.

The Kings visited the Red Cross crisis cell a few weeks ago and this Saturday they wanted their daughters to know the testimony of other families and young people their age.

It was the reappearance of the Princess of Asturias, on school vacations, who also wore a sorochka, a typical Ukrainian shirt, as her mother did when the conflict broke out.

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