Russia: Tearful grandparents overwhelmed after children of IS found safe in Iraq *EXCLUSIVE*

The grandmother and grandfather of sisters Khadija and Fatima, who were found recently in a Baghdad orphanage, expressed relief at discovering that their grandchildren were alive, during an interview in Makhachkala, Saturday. SOT Granddad (Russian): "Everything is fine with us, do not worry, everything is fine with us. But how not to worry? All right, the children abandoned us, the old people in their old age. But I worry about my granddaughters, defenceless children. How can they be taken away? Well, you go away, but why should the children be traumatised? This is still not clear to me." SOT Granddad (Russian): "Thank you very much. And those people who worry about us. What to say - we wait, we wait for our girls." SOT Grandmother (Russian): "Thank you. From grandmother, from grandfather, thank you very much." SOT Granddad (Russian): "You must excuse us. We are in such a condition. We could not sleep for three days." SOT Grandmother (Russian): "I cannot talk either." SOT Granddad (Russian): "She is a notable girl. She has all the gesticulations, nothing has changed. How small she was, she was so active. I just caught my breath." SOT Granddad (Russian): "I saw him holding my children. How can you not believe these people? When he holds my own children in his arms - Khadija, Fatimka. How not to believe them. And if we do not see them, we do not lose anything. We will not stay long here. We do not know when they will take us, but at least we saw that they were alive, our children, our little granddaughters. They are an extension of us." SOT Granddad (Russian): "And who does not hope?" SOT Grandmother (Russian): "We hope for the rest of our lives." SOT Granddad (Russian): "Well, most of all I wanted to see every step of my granddaughters. Here she sat screaming, Dadaka. Every second I remember it, I cannot. Every step here reminds me of her, I do not even know what to do." SOT Granddad (Russian): "It does not leave without a trace." SOT Grandmother (Russian): "It is just that the children grew up." SOT Granddad (Russian): "It will go away only with the years' passing. The only thing they need is care and warmth. Our love, and the love of loved ones." SOT Granddad (Russian): "It is not an airplane - why it did not land, or sky, clouds. Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. Therefore, hope dies last." Video ID: 20170812 017 Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv Contact: [email protected] Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly