ah, she's got it is just a thought say will graham with one of europe's poorest nations has become a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of refugees with money. you don't have to save us from the ukrainians russian. so just get out of lou crane, they go to greg vladimir putin calls the invasion of ukraine, a special military operation, a sign of contempt for the victims. this is war for real. it's not just an operation. i can go with them because i

don't want to force ah, since february 24th. when russia launched its brutal attack on ukraine. the republic of moldova as border police chief has been on call 247. most of the time. rosa yon vasa loy is out with his team. what insulin stuff to this? like with the steam furnace? fluently from that over to the home. okay. mm. wedged between ukraine and romania, this small nation is in the spotlight. when jim out of the la frontier, moldova borders are in total, 1906 kilometers long,

$684.00 of that that we share with romania the border to the new revision. and we have a 1222 kilometer border with ukraine, which $453.00 run alongside trends and history augment across external frontiers. thought when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. the 14th guards army was stationed in eastern moldova, along the border to ukraine. that region home to a sizable russian population seceded from moldova, and became the self declared state of trans mistrial. the moldova border, police are not responsible for that section of the border, but putin's invasion has sparked fears of trans mystery, a closing ranks with the russian military. this would mean a new western front where you claim, and for moldova, a volatile threat in the east. but rosie on vasa loi has more immediate concerns. a thousands of people seeking refuge in his country long in his talk. good morning

minister. i am on my way to the border right. you have left us and i am personally leading the operation on our models of them. we have 2 options in polanko and recommend launching an operation at 1 pm law. proponents select he'll on top of that. as soon the load updates only 3 or 4 buses on the ground, enabling us to get started on the modem side. there's a button in the bottom aluminum from okay, understood that until this part of your gentle with the state of emergency has been declared for 30 day is this the cost the below extended subject to extension. and depending on the situation to that's in the got it the for now our priority is helping little fling the war of a sensor and giving them a sense of security because it would on site and it would become over whether they're staying in moldova, or headed to the e. u. sitting there with in the polanko border crossing in the

southeast of the country has seen a steady stream of people playing ukraine since the war began in the 1st 3 weeks over 300000 people across the border, georgia. for many years. this was just the beginning of an odyssey. with the dire situation has also drawn the u. s. ambassador to moldova kent logston. lisa is a departure lane out of moldova. but right now all incoming lanes are open to peace to live. this being thought it uses mostly people are coming from yoga not only odessa, but mass junk jill, mammals and the mode is, are now decent. i think everyone's very worried about the situation. as you know, the president, secretary of state have been very concerned and of course we try to work with each

host country and all of this, the situation as you know is not just moldova, it's many countries around ukraine. so we'll try to work with our partners here to figure out the best needs to date, more than 5000000 ukrainians have fled, their homeland joined each day by thousands more escaping the horrors of war. hands of ukraine, russia there. so just a shooting natal case. each refugee is registered at the border, uncertain of what awaits them on the other side of the studio in the northeast. so . 8 on the i studies in odessa and then in munich, we are in story, we're proud of our people and don't want it to be positive. russia well, you don't have to save us from ukrainians or uniform. could i, you know, russian soldiers get out of ukraine. graham here, families, partners,

and friends bid one another farewell. most of the men must go back to a war, played down by putin as a military operation. because this is war for rail. it's not just enough. peroration you on this mother and her 8 year old boy continue on their own. the child's father has to stay behind. i can go with them because i won't, i won't afford it goes, we must to stop. this will will, will, will this war to sure. will do because river soon. we are in our country. lily abraham is no stranger to war. she's the mayor of gra book away, which sits by the river nestor. 30 years ago. it was the scene of fighting between

pro russian separatists and the mold open. army. isn't empty board this denise. this speech spans the dentist writer between the villages of good habitually and we chuck got a little for the is a mold. doug and villager and blue chalk is hard. the russian is that i use it all shape but he was sad today. now maybe the next ukrainian village is 20th. so she kilometers away as near that brian nadia so assaulted the killing me up to date, yucca desa is just a 100 kilometers. let us boil, said the woo has come very close to lanois, 100 kilometers is not exactly follows with the kilometer as the north side, the motor leaving residence. wondering just how far will the russian advance go? yeo morgan. yes. if the russians come back to us, if you will have the border here again, a she a chair lacking the old days or more force condra, but many are afraid here. why mean dill sat through some people he is the out that

the russians will continue on the way to kisha. now go, sir, margaret won't sure, but i don't think said they'll stop here and trans nice. tell us what they ask h a law but i've ceased. yeah. the bridge was rebuilt in 2004, enabling ethnic russians from trans nestea to travel to the republic of moldova, to work as farm hands. lily as father was born here, he's lived under a series of different rulers romanian german soviet. and now moldova, and a woman, viola, ty, dad, lovely to see with her and in between the regions larger powers. moldova has always been something of a pond. sure, very richer people here have learned to get by as the rulers changed. so did the armies,

but very forward. this is my father during the 1st world war for a photo taken a 105 years ago, he was a cossack and carver home. there for my brother was also conscripted into the army and per year spent 7 years abroad, where you ship guns in what back door or forth the bargaining if you will force the roof. angie's pretty good if and his brother was with the artillery and his dad was the cavalry thought. think of idea. 88 year old sir. hey, doesn't think the russians will invade like that. no, no, no, they won't come here repair. why? i this is moldova. nature. bombs, what would they want here? she went half moldova, and half russian. hill and ruth and we get along just fired. 3 more. try a so pretty neat cree yo am i was born in creek. a pole in transit is 3000 yesterday and she yield. i'm well doesn't, but my 1st language is russian misconduct, but also the village of 3700 inhabitants has seen its share of war. over the

centuries old munitions found in the surrounding fields fill an entire room in the village museum. city thought, who sat, the loo, i'll village is experienced. a lot of all this is toya, but also for the turkish russian con vantage, chicago, which involved chance the 12 fighting the russians preceded. doyle suffered also from blood. i am here. we have exhibits from that rule, the little boy and from the 2nd world war, do a me and also get back to the spot through the class that are items from the will we had in 1992 bought them there with me and also didn't olds as doi she yada yada. and now were yet again seeing al ukrainian naples it will with russia training course. it hurts him through moya. as the fall we want to see his

piece flesh give them no ma'am. by chance. on a tale. a boat narrow is a bit, a cultural engineer, a lawyer and, and tourism. he's not just content to sit by while the war rages across the border of the game or the my ideas to pick up people i can find right there at the border . instead of looking online, when i drive around to find people who have no other options and give them a place to stay in dugeon, i would take anyway, hope you will. but i am focusing on people who are willing to settle here. instead of going straight to western europe will be oral possible good. my depart, the good at chip is that after the stream of refugees crossing the border at polanko shows no signs of slowing. when we filmed aid efforts were still largely in the hands of private individuals and small organizations. you're a group, right?

we're looking for people who want to stay here and have no other options. what are the longer this govern your body of the middleman? many refugees are extremely anxious. your lot of people here don't know whether they're staying. we're moving on vote. perhaps we'll find some here today. otherwise we'll look online as he bring them to you. but 1st i look here because there are so many, andy, great, well, what i to step up in a heap on trying body. did it took him hi there. can you tell me who's organizing things here? he checked out. who's in charge? actually we want to give women and children a place to stay here. me copy, got an oil and he is of it. i don't know. so we can go to put a check, which is a tourist resort. so i can take people who want to stay on,

but not people who want to go elsewhere on the morning basically will take anyone was up, but some people just don't know what they want to go. was at least when he got little nick with that. yeah, i could take some one to but if you stick with no need, we have a van he thought the more not thought so we can take 4 or 5 adults together with their kids, ross with oh, and the conditions are you mean very comfortable. so that i can help with almost avoided norden, up with a stranger, a man making a generous offer to these women stranded in a foreign country. they decide to trust him. i've even brought along a few bales little straw in case there weren't children nodded and they want to have a nap in the back while they're, you haven't sit up front talk with 3 women and one child for generations of the same family. plus the daughter in law and her son, they wish to remain anonymous. they fear for their men who had to stay behind in

odessa. after a 3 hour drive, they finally reached their destination. who to jim, a dealer tourist resort in the east of the country. for the refugees, me a sense of relief, who if they just love it, love their live show coming over here shortly. so of the legacy, pretty much offensive on by shows herself that would know i knew would you be on the do so store, or was, i know it's on us millennium. so brutner, if there's any dumas should we 40 in busha la la c d t less thrilled at night g t. nobody needs another hill for the time being, they've reached safety. the at the moment, this is the moment when we have to do something for these poor,

desperate and scared people to lie. sure, we don't know what to expect ourselves. it could be that this one year from the east will invade us to you and we'll be next. we'll see you given me new nebula. yes, but in what happens to norman is russia. rosie on vasa lloyd has neither the time nor the energy for such reflections. he's focused solely on the influx of refugees, of, of, we're now planning a few measures for organizing transportation. the objective is to collect people right here and take them to the romanian border. yet romania, the country has neither the logistics nor the human resources to handle the number of people coming in. we're getting that to the, to the ideas for every one crossing the border to be asked where they're going. those headed for the you will be separated and put on buses. huh. so once we have 3 buses full, they'll get a police escort across the country level. so we need for liter shislett,

joe from polanko to miss leah, and then further west to the border crossing at georgia. last, my depart handle dick la jonas for 3 weeks now. the men and women of the border police have been working nonstop. thanks guys. all good. the boss, thanks his colleagues personally for their work. if you've got a good, in addition to being physically demanding, the job also exerts a huge emotional toll. the father of 3 tries not to let his own feelings get to him. yet if i've got to keep cool because these people are all going somewhere, i've also brought in psychologist to tell a lot of people have shut down. they've stopped talking coffee called them all omni singularity, but we can't just give up on them or there's something kitchen yet. who else is going to help them with?

does have dental for won't politically keep on will sol drawn because we have the experience that can only imagine, monique, it's, but incident permit, but deep down, of course, if it's emotional for us to send them over and it's not just the crossings where his team are on high alert, the unfurnished sections of the border require particularly vigilant surveillance. from past experience, they know smugglers and other criminals will take advantage of the chaotic circumstances. they just leave them a frontier was standing right on the border. i just injected the problem, we did run it, this is the road that runs through the republic of moldova and all the way to

odessa, this included with nozzles. there's no war there yet except for a few minor incidents. but we're expecting to see a lot more people than what you witnessed at the order crossing off looks my modest tilt since i was visiting with him as his team patrols the no man's land between ukraine and the republic of moldova, they often pick up ukrainian men of military service age, so little to 17 persons in total. all of them ukrainian, they were on foot on their way from polanko and were found by a patrol of them. at the fulsome course, ukraine has band men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country. but in moldova, some 5000 of them have already applied for asylum, yet their category to perform. these are people who want to escape military service by seeking asylum in the republic of moldova, in accordance with international law,

these individuals will be transferred to the immigration authorities, but only rough as the war has already come. alarmingly close to gra, book away on the mold of inside of the nice her. at 5 am on the 24th of february. residents were woken by the sound of missiles striking odessa just over 100 kilometers away. all people can do here is prey. today's church service has a larger attendance than usual. the 1st refugees have already arrived in the village. oh wow. among the new faces here are elaina answered. you shall i of from keep alena grew up here and is now staying with her sister. me. ah, oh.

the couple down the war back home will be over any time soon. yet look number, they have no idea what the future holds for them of, of different courses, whether and for how long they will be safe. here to get the olga yet, we drove the ages, also across barricades when we thought of oh, we fled from the war, tootin is launched and all at war against our country. and so was bombing towns and villages and is out to level everything to the ground. while it's barbaric when he's murdering women and children, it's a law against the ukrainian people. yeah, not the army. he's about very in a murderer and a rapist. he's not a human being. he's a monster monster. the family's fate is shared by millions of their fellow ukrainians, for most of those fleeing west. moldova is merely a transit country. but over 100000 refugees have now settled in the small republic,

whose population is only 2600000. sir ju was exempt from the ban on men leaving ukraine because he and elena have 5 children. well, well, well, well, in total there are 11 people now sharing this small apartment. the youngest child is just a year and a half, both the parents and the children are haunted by the traumatic journey they made to get here. i keep looking now my should be getting them in cave. we drove past a military base, i. e, we'd almost passed it when the gods suddenly became more frantic and waved us straight through mo jada thought. good when you the money, if you see so much, oh, something was happening, but we didn't know what there was shooting behind us with. the kids was scared to death, but yet we were scared too, but they were in a state of shock and hook up before the war. the show lives were part of keeps

middle class. now they have nothing or either give me a book business. i had my own business with repairing mobile phones and selling accessories, and things were going really great. so, but nobody wanted a wall. so we all had a peaceful life. there isn't an out of the blue at for i am with the war started without any prior warnings. ah was little bit his dear much leslie laugh. buddha chan in the east of moldova, was abandoned years ago. it's buildings empty, vacated by owners who had moved abroad. after buying up the properties on natalia bought narrow, renovated them, and created a picturesque little vacation resort. local housewives do the cooking. the menu is comprised solely of regional dishes, among the specialties, homemade pickled vegetables. while the owner normally welcomes both domestic and foreign tourists. right now is only guests or refugees. what was really,

i mean you did a boy. i bought flowers before the ward before the 24th, to give people some joy because it's still winter. otto, madame, all we can do is hope that moldova is spared the onslaught of violence on the horizon. and then we'll start all over again. first, the pandemic through his back and now this crazy situation, we hope will at least be able to get a new starter. is russia. oh, leslie, a coach, a caro overseas proceedings in the kitchen or her work continues. as usual, the refugees are fed and taken care of like any other guests so, or might be, it depends. we've had days where we fit 500 guests y v o markedly. now make as much as we think will be named it. we have enough people to cook for every one, but anyone who comes here, we'll get way to the thief and nobody will go hungry. in addition to cooking there

now adding extra beds in from which month of the last night were driving into town to day to last me blankets, pillows, and shake it should be enough for a 100. let me see, i'm at a thought on the dollar bill credit that we also have the restroom next door. there are no guests right now, but it has, he said, fluid as old that by so we'll set up makes, she sped using vales of strength. if we can't afford to buy proper bids, but i think that will turn out just fine. the 4 generation family anatolia picked up 2 days ago and polanko have decided to move on. but nobody lives here with an empty stomach. mold opens are known for their hospitality medias. with that i think this is that it goes against i with, with the will we do when you really done. i still with us in this like,

you know, like a couple years ago before the leather, you've received that they say that specific found out that both of them will you know that being leo. so, but she believes that those, those my unique blue thing. sure. unions, local name is the name of the m put k, put into a dwarf, diaz morton for 5 in michaud. i do my best for her was making sure the mother of important the mosquitoes. maria boise, who is these are just the cube literature. a list is indian and we see that they each did it now with silicon daughters, but by jani. so we'd la la la la, i'm yes, paula rodney, who was with monica da, man, them only know via lucila, but dorsey aubrey alyssa, are butch user, cuz all the sooner you should see the only elders. oh, we learn collage his sibling with digital with but the most of us issue money go eat with the with doesn't really show. and then you actually you are

what the future holds. no one can say neither the people who had to flee their homes clean nor alessio caught you caro. and on a totally a boat. narrow them rosy on vasa lloyd, the head of the mult open border. police agency focus is on the here and now it's 250 kilometers from the ukranian border to romania. that's where the buses carrying refugees will soon be headed. regimen did accept a gentleman. so we're going to the southern border area and just there will talk to the regional deputy about the transit from polanko to hul or to georgia, less to do the whole food list since the war broke out. moldova has essentially become part of the shanghai sound, which has no passport checks between its e. u. member states. the blocks external border has never been so permeable. independence is still a good local fungal. you have to stay in touch with both border crossings, depending on the traffic, the buses will be directed to either co hulu,

large lest fuel you've lift whom support in your cell took. you also have to call the drivers as soon as the buses get going, we were in charge is tim little and we know they'll need 4 and a half to 5 hours in the publish market g short. later that afternoon, the operation gets under way. rosie on vasa, noise pilot project has worked. the 1st bus crosses the border for a brief moment. the border police chief is just another mold oven. it's an old tradition for men to hand out pendants with red and white tassels to mark the advent of spring. this year, the tassels are in the colors of ukraine. the other 2 will not paramount up again with hello judy is much the 8th. the 1st day of spring that we're giving you a moxie show on the normally they're in red and white jelly, e coughlin stove much at white to the color of snow and red, representing blood of this year. these colors are particularly bright,

take care enough money to foreign it with the the, to the civil mitigated the thank you so much. war has drawn europe closer together. it may also expand georgia, ukraine and the republic of moldova have now formerly applied to join the e. u. a base april with the frontier rights there. now in, in europe, in, that's the proof, the outer border of the e, u, and of nato to live on the danube ends over the. so it was, i'm sure will become with hardly, you allow us to be optimistic. i'm not going to remain idle. i'm going to in your fight with my colleague just i'm going to college in the republic of moldova has shown great and humanity in a crisis one day soon this river may blow through the e. u. o o t go india

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