that means it will likely be days before the medical shipments reach frontline cities in murray, you ball, which is under siege by russian forces and cut off it's already too late. meanwhile, the exodus of people fleeing the war continues. saw the people leaving are mainly women and children, as most ukrainian men are staying behind to fight. most of them are obliged to stay behind. poland is receiving the biggest number of refugees, but other neighboring countries are also taking in people desperate to escape russia's assault t w's. tess about her reports from the slovakian border with ukraine. a roof over their heads. even if it's just a tent and a hot meal here, ambition in emanates crystal vakio. they found shelter from the attacks of the russian army in their homeland oksana arrived here from west and ukraine just

a few hours ago with her 2 children. when you thrash them, will you? i was so afraid for my children. we had to flee. all of us had to flee horribly. i don't know what to do now seem made kick. i do not think. asana is relieved that she saved here for the time being, but she still can't comprehend the whole catastrophe of the wall. pollyanna, what does the ban of the right, the reason i don't want to call myself a refugee. i want to go back home where my children were happy, did the boost as living oh, dorm watches i want to. i'm just so scared.

lydia also just made it across the border with her children. she's afraid for a husband who can't be with his kids. right. now that has to fight the russian soldiers. yes, we are all worried. but what should we do? my husband told us to go and then we went. we may never see each other again. this is not right. if we all have to die, we want to die together. it's not right that my husband is in ukraine and we are here. you don't want to leave your home with us though, that like lydia knock sana, thousands of women and children are fleeing ukraine. the neighboring countries the families here are trying their best to hold up, especially the mothers to all they can to shield that children from the horrible situation they are in that when you speak to them a little bit longer, you realize just how traumatized they are by the war in their home country,

maddie and let. so is one of the volunteers who takes care of them. thus saith is so not very surprising because they said they, they had normal ice and forbade our hearing slovakia. and i believe they didn't plan to come here, so is the front for them. they have different allies, though. to now they can only wait until their feet will be on solid ground again. joining me now is james elder, he's a spokesperson for the united nations children's fund unicef in live. james, tell us, what does this war mean for ukraine's children? well, very much. what you'll do is just saw a deep trauma separation from families via and for an increasing number. it means the end of their life. we are seeing children being killed and injured in this

conflict as things continue to escalate. so across the board is, is nightmarish. for children, for very large numbers of children. so how can children begin to process the hell of war? as you say, it's traumatizing traumatizing enough for adults how to children deal with you know, i speak to so many mothers here and it's a mix. some, some babies sleep a lot more as a coping mechanism. summer in t is summer, just froze. it frozen and steely, ah, others console their own mothers when they mothers can no longer keep up that tie that facade and that, that, that strength. so it's a whole gamut of things and it's an area that eunice, if notice from yemen to afghanistan. now are you crying? i cannot believe we sing another nation. children learn what conflict looks like. what an air ride saw it is, but we know that the quicker this, this trauma can be address the less chance and has

a scar in these children. of course, beyond our own efforts. the best way to end is trauma is to end this fighting. what's being done to help these children, james? a loss a lot by every day you trainings i'd like to stop by saying grandmothers all the straight cookie foods give some blankets to medicines, teenagers, offering shelters for people who are coming in and had spent nights in bunkers and now are trying to flee unicef. we have mobile child protection teams that will go both sides of the conflict line as you and i speak with trucking, emergency supplies from our global hob in denmark that are coming in to where i am to ukraine. now, a safe space is along those long journeys a lot, but it's important to remember as long as these conflict continues, that demand will continue. drought strip the supply as your report, a set of half a 1000000 children fling the country in 7 days. that's unprecedented in scaling

swiftness and, and to be honest, unprecedented in sorrow and stress. now we're seeing most of these children arriving at the border aah and ukraine's border to the surrounding countries with their mothers. but some of them are unaccompanied. where will all these children end up? yeah, it's a very good question and it's, it's a very worrisome area. i'll all work now on the policy level units. if it's very clear on what into country adoption should look like the best interests of the child and you try and in those neighboring countries, i'm clear on these guidelines. so we insures base we can that with a family member, an extended family member, someone from the village. these things a key and then as a next resort to find a safe place somewhere, this is not difficult. this is not easy. raw. the given the enormity of number of numbers of people moving, but this is what unit is seeking to do on all those boarder regence remembering of course, there are tens of thousands of children in orphanages here. that's

a great concern because we had reports there in the line of fire or even children in hospitals. i was at the children's hospital he yesterday children in i c u. intensive care on drips. how do we get them out? how do we get them to say, what about the long term psychological effects, james? is the trauma that these children experience likely to haunt them as adults? yes, it certainly can. if you look at that, i spent knots in bonkers and a little girl told me there were raxon functions. but her mom had said that explained, but there's no bomb, sophia. yet. yes, it is again that the sooner we can get out of the situation, the better, but then they will need to be counseling. they need temp re learning spaces. they need any type of education that can give them a distraction. whether we unicef deals with the situation from yemen to afghan assigned to ethiopia, the longer these things continue, the more chance it has of scarring. this is a young nation,

a very from what i see very entrepreneurial nation. these children will add so much value to any society, but of course they want to add it to their own home. they want to add it to crime. james, thank you very much for talking with us this morning. that was james elder from unicef. european union has agreed to give emergency temporary protection to refugees fleeing the war in ukraine. it means that the more than a 1000000 people who have fled can now apply for temporary protected status. and residency permits throughout the you. millions more are expected to follow. the measure is meant to ease pressure on member states that border ukraine. here's the french interior minister talking about the move. it does so that he, before he became eligible persons will thus be able to benefit from a protective status. similar to that of a refugee you up in any country of the european union for renewable period of one

year is this unanimous decision reflects the full commitment of the european union to the solidarity that we owe to the ukrainian people in the face of this unjustifiable war russia, of course, is a vast country in the war, and ukraine may seem far away for russians living in remote areas like siberia, but videos appearing on social media, showing young russian recruits captured by ukrainian forces are bringing the realities of war, home to their families. and friends, thousands of kilometers away. a small town in eastern siberia, almost 5000 kilometers from ukraine. but the war has already arrived here. this is the home town of puzzle. a young russian soldier captured in ukraine. the baby c visited his friends and family. are you ever fun again? the woman. right, yeah. i've been crying the past 2 days, legally, because you could please either open it. this is the legally school i don't suppose

it's i don't know what's happening and why our youngest being sent over there. i mean, why didn't videos of young russian prisoners of war are everywhere on social media . this unverified footage shows a captive soldier who is given food and tea and allowed a phone call with his mother and more and more videos like this are spreading russian soldiers who say they had no idea. they were heading off to war when you move is in even dusty. we see that especially the young recruits, often appear confused, as if they weren't told about the nature of their deployment, the morale and their motivation, a low. the logistics aren't working as well as even the west expected them to as often as the years i, the anguish of octed. formerly douglas valentina melanie cova is the long serving chair woman of the russian committee of soldiers. mothers concerned parents reach

out to her in moscow asking where their sons a she's worried that the number of coals will drastically increase watching rationally. but this is a terrible war. there are many dad and many prisoners on by. he cranium and russian sides. we have to convince the warmongers, especially russia to declare humanitarian sci fi say we can bring, hadn't the prisoners of war, you thought it might be the media? the people in this small east siberian town say they had no idea that pavel is in ukraine. his aunt has one wish with the bring back of boys. the winter parallel para olympics to, to begin today in beijing will take place without athletes from russia and belarus . international paralympic committee has banned pearl and beans from those 2 countries from competing. that's reversal of its earlier decision. on tuesday, the i p. c had said, athletes from russia and beller is could take are a so called neutrals under the paralympic flag. but the organization bowed to growing international pressure to issue

a full ban. a 71 member russian contingent is already in beijing, and the russian civil union says it will file an international legal appeal against the decision to ban russian teams from global competition. that ban from world war from footballs, world governing body people. and it's european counterpart, effectively rules rushes men's teams out. thanks for watching. ah, i'll story. so here are the latest developments in ukraine. fire in europe's largest nuclear plant in ukraine has now been extinguished, of blaze broke out after the plant came under attack by russian forces. local officials say nuclear safety has been secured at the site and that radiation levels remain unchanged. the mall, russia continues its assault on ukraine cities. it's already announced the capture

of the southern port, city of cos on the 1st major city to paul. since the invasion began, results a heavy fighting in the outskirts of another fort city, mariel bold, as well as the capital kiev. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. ah ah, with

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