ah, what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage 360. get the app now. 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 ukrainian or russian. so just get out of lou crying. they go to graham 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 at the or 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 loi is out with his team. within 23rd to this. like what you're seeing from this facility from that were to go. okay, listen, wedged between ukraine and romania, this small nation is in the spotlight. when jim out that allah frontier moldova borders are in total, 1906 kilometers long,

$684.00 of 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 transit history of mental crosses. daniel frontier is that 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 pollutants invasion has sparked fears of trans mystery, a closing ranks with the russian military. this would mean a new western front where ukraine and for moldova, a volatile threat in the east. but rosie on vasa loy has more immediate concerns. a thousands of people seeking refuge in his country long. i'm in the store. good

morning minister. i'm on my way to the border right. you now with us and, and personally leading the operation us on our middle of them. we have 2 options and polanko and wed recommend launching an operation at 1 pm law proponent. so i feel on top of that, i've seen a lot of plate on the 3 or 4 buses on the ground, enabling us to get started on the modem side. does have gotten in the bottom liveness from okay understood that i'm to this out of your gentle with the state of emergency has been declared for 30 days. it wasn't blowing extended, subject to extension, and depending on the situation to the 10, he got it. the for now our priority is helping little thing, the war of them and giving them a sense of security. as it would on say it will become oval whether they're staying in moldova, or headed to the e. you said it had been 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, but with the dire situation has also drawn the u. s. ambassador to moldova kent, logston lease is a departure lane out of moldova. but right now, all incoming lanes are open hearted piece to live. this being thought it mostly people are coming from yoga. not only odessa, but mass. joe, joe, mammals cindy mode is, are now dis i think everyone's very worried about the situation as you know, the president and secretary of state of 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, in the audience. so will. 8 i studies in odessa and then in munich, we have in store, 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 an operation 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 will. because river sold we are in our country. lily, abraham is no stranger to war. she's the mayor of girl 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, our little foot is a mill, doug, and village, and blue chalk beside the russian displaced all shape but he was sad though craner made the next ukrainian villages 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 boils said the woo has come very close to lanois. 100 kilometers is not exactly follows. with the kilometers the law, i showed 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 all the way to kisha now, rosie or the margaret function, but i don't think said they'll stop here and trans. nice. tell us what they ask h a law that's these. 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 lava will lazy away 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 that day for work,

this is my father during the 1st world war for a photo taken a 105 years ago he was a cossack and carvalho work there for my brother was also conscripted into the army and per year spent 7 years abroad of war, you ship gunderson, what back door or forth the bargaining if you will, force through angie's to grief at his brother was with the artillery and his dad was the cavalry not been cove 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, these are bombs. what would they want here? pretty well, 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 fall entranced is 3 entrance in yesterday and she yield, i'm well doesn't, but my 1st language is rational 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 it sat, the loo, i'll village is experienced. a lot of wools is toya, but also for the turkish, russian convex, chicago, which involved chance the 12 fighting the russians. did it already a sort of full from blood? i am here. we have exhibits from that rule. the little boy and from the 2nd world war domino. so get back to the spot through the class. there are items from the wall we had in 1990. 2 bought them with me and also given all of this noise she yadda yadda. and now were yet again seeing al ukrainian naples it will with russia. grey ling got over. it hurts him through moya. as the fall we want to see

is peace. no, i asked them no. my budget on natalia 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 . your make a 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 any model of the road, but i'm focusing on people who are willing to settle here. instead of going straight to western europe will bring your all possible good. my depart, the guardianship. this the ask i 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 bulk of this govern your body of the middleman? many refugees are extremely anxious you a lot of people here don't know whether they're staying or moving on. what perhaps go 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 crazy, well with actually stopping. oh, keep on trying body and took them hi there. who 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 loaded. he me copy, got an oil, and he is of it. i don't know. so we can go to put a chin, 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 where they want to go. was at least when he got a little nick would 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 were also not good. oh. and the conditions are you mean very comfortable . so can i can help with almost avoided snorting 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 parents sit up front talk with 3 women and one child for generations of the same family. lost 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 chance, a popular tourist resort in the east of the country. for the refugees, a sense of relief if they just love it, love their life. she'll probably live alone. so idly, so appealing to put him so 50 wrong by shows herself that with no i knew would you be on the do. so store for was on august on us my there. no, i'm so glad yet there's any do malisha with 40 in basra la la c d t less still at night d 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. i'm not sure we don't know what to expect ourselves. it could be that this wonder from the east will invade us to you and will be next. we'll see you given me new nebula. yes, but in what happens to normally from russia, rosie on bass ally 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. they agree 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. said once we have 3 buses, full of they'll get a police escort across the country level. so we need for later she slipped from

polanko to to miss leah, and then further west to the border, crossing at georgia. lest my depart, isabel 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. you 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. i've got to keep cool because these people are all going somewhere. i've also brought in psychologist to help. a lot of people have shut down. they've stopped talking, gothic on my mommy and singly with it, but we can't just give up on them or there's something kitchen yet. who else is going to help them? just ask them to put her won't politically,

people will sole drawn because we have the experience. who could i can only imagine when i and it's been anthony could meet. 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 unfinished 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 need elephant theatre 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. you're 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 border crossing influx, my modern joke, sense of 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, of the fulsome clash. 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 that from 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 uh, from keith alena grew up here and is now staying with her sister. me. ah, oh.

the couple doubt 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 old a year. and 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 is 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. sergio was exempt from the ban on men leaving ukraine because he and elaina 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 he a book and i'm really 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 a straight through mo jada thought. good. when you know 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 with yet we were scared to but they were in a state of shock. man, ha ha! before the war, the shall lives were part of keeps middle class. now they have nothing.

or even kenya book business, i had my own business with repairing mobile phones and selling accessories. and things were going really great. so bullet, nobody wanted a wall. so we all had a peaceful life, fair scissors, and then out of the blue at 4 am with the war started without any prior warnings was little bit of dia mercilessly la. 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 start to his mother. oh, let's see, 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 or might be, it depends. we've had days where we fit 500 guests. do i b 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,

they are now adding extra beds which month and a lot of sleep were driving into town to day to last me blankets, pillows, and shake. it should be enough for a 100. let me get a $1000.00 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 veils of string mug of which we can't afford to buy proper bids. but i think that will turn out just fine . the for 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 that it goes against i with, with the will, with whom we, you really don't, i still with us in this like, you know, like

a couple years ago before another you've received, they say that specific found out that oak upon the vietnam, that being leo. so, but she believes that those, those, my, yes, new clothing. sure. unions. mccomb is the name of the m put k put into a dual. dis morton for 5 in me. sure. do my daughter who is born with this issue. the mother of important the mosquitoes, marianna voici who is these are just the cube which your mom list is indian and we see that they each did it. now mozilla could a daughter, but by jani. so we'd la la la la, i'm yes. hello. rodney rogers van, they come down in the am only know via lucila, but don't see a boy alyssa, are butch, usually because all the serious are city of odors. oh, we learn collage his sibling with digital with but the most of us issue money goes wacky. the doesn't really show and then you actually see that you

are what the future holds. no one can say what of neither the people who pad to plead their homes clean nor alessio caught you caro. and on a totally a boat narrow rosie 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 accidentally soon. we're going to the southern border area does, there will talk to the regional deputy about the transit from polanko to hul or to georgia, less rigid goal to, to list. since the war broke out, moldova has essentially become part of the shang, and sound which has no passport checks between its e. u. member states that you have to stay in touch with both border crossings. if he, depending on the traffic the buses will be directed to either co hulu. lodge alleged fuels you've lift, whom supporting your stout. ok,

you also have to call the drivers. as soon as the buses get going, we are in charge is to merlin. we know they'll need 4 and a half to 5 hours and to publish market g 40. later that afternoon, the operation gets underway. rosie on vasa lloyd's pilot project has worked. the 1st bus crosses the border for a brief moment. the border police cheap 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 are not paramount up again with hello jenny is march the 8th, the 1st day of spring that we're giving you a moxie show on the normally there in red and white jelly e coughlin stove, much at white to the color of snow and red representing blood that this year of these colors are particularly bright, take care enough of the flooring it with the will to the civil mitigate 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 at bates april at the frontier ex, they're known in europe, and that's the proof, the outer border of the e, u, and of nato, to little the danube. ends over there her i'm sure will become a part of them. you allow us to be optimistic. i'm not going to remain idle. i'm going dealing with no fight with my colleagues, just go in college in the republic of moldova has shown great and humanity and a crisis one day soon this river may blow through the e. u. oh, ah, the world a sash. what has changed in the takes

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