Yesterday, children and staff of a primary school in Naples, Italy, came out in force to greet Ukrainian refugee children arriving for their first day. The moving welcome was captured in a video that shows hundreds of school students and teachers gathered in the entrance hall of the Don Milani institute. Numbering over 200, they also lined the stairs and first-floor balcony to cheer and clap as the two new children nervously entered the building.

Some of the Italian children waved Ukrainian flags or peace flags. Two students then chaperoned the newcomers, named locally as siblings Dmitri, 10, and Victoria, eight, to their respective classrooms. The heartwarming moment has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media.