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his of to weeks of siege and have his shelling by russian forces. we meet svetlana and valentino sippin coin a local hospital where they survived, but were both injured in an error strike that hit their house for the ballistic wounded some one logan took less than a 2nd. loosely, sweet. we just heard a whistle here greet gloom. lea symbol i screamed get down was uncovered. my son, feeling like little savoy, even school valentin still has surgeries ahead of him. svetlana is doing a little bit better. she shows me pictures of their house before and after the attack. there's done up on why did they attack us over? i don't know, we didn't do anything bad where civilians are still the quinn, islam. the hospital itself was not spirit either bought and russia load. the hat of the trauma center here tells us after rush and strike his team struggled to keep

going with you all before we worked without water and electricity, hulu would headlamps on and took care of those seeking medical assistance. and also it was very hard on me, but we stayed here and did what was necessary for raleigh whoop social medicine. and the situation worse. and when russian forces completely encircled the city, residents tell us some of them were killed by russian troops. others died because they could not reach the hospital due to heavy shelling. in the local morgue, edward slept please using refrigerated trucks for the bodies that still needs to be identified or pick up by relatives bootable through the will you co. many people left the country to escape the fighting because they are not in ukraine for them and cannot get back to barrier their relatives came from walnut. so that's why there are still many bodies here heard of her. so i thought you was,

i would be those who come here to claim their loved ones are overwhelmed by grief. like egos, family, he was a husband, a father, a brother, shut debt by russian soldiers over the summer. he was the best buy there. he could have, i was so proud of him and now something this terrible has happened to his mother, what, death and destruction is all that is left off to the withdrawal of russian forces from turned the heath. and what those who survived your most is that the russian army might return ah, reports of re pearl. so mounting from ukraine, there are many indications that russia is systematically using sexual violence as a weapon of war. an example from boucher this is carina. you show over. she was about to turn 23 when russian soldiers

marched into her town. future on the outskirts of cave. carina had plans. she was managing the local sushi bar, but was saving money to study at university. this is the last place where sure carina was seen alive the stairs outside her flat. it was march 10th. after this, everything becomes unclear. this is where one man thinks he saw russian soldiers kill her, but he can't be sure if the woman was karena while some one else. this with the with and i was you put her here. you said you like this and not that for head was bent back. then he took her in his arms and carried her over there to look then another soldier shot tom was. it is it won't you, you will be lou. this is where police told korean his parents, they found the body, they said it looks like she'd been right. but this is what the police said that she was badly tortured because he shot her ex. my girl wanted to live so much. oh,

that's always been her, was even applied for in his to her to stop the bleeding. oh, got it on the door then with a shot in the hell they killed her softball. real b forensic scientists examining the hundreds of bodies, the russians left behind. so many of the women have been right organizations across the country support those who survive. it, shaw and elizabeth. oh, see it on us as of to 12 cases we are working on 11. our cases of gang rape is really sad up in all of these cases, women reported that the occupiers were drunk or had taken drugs law on business with us on the uh, when it was in india, ukraine's commissioner for human rights tells me the she had number of coals makes

them think russians are using rape as a weapon, but the most good dot. okay. when a russian soldier rapes a ukranian woman, a girl, while boy an elderly woman, they keep saying things like this. this will happen to every nazi hor, got, or we will rape until you can't give birth g ukrainians back of when you these are signs of genocide of the ukraine. are people of mark, you know, do not say though, greens, coronado them the korean, his parents, the only certainty they have is their loss and their fury making age. we are human . we hate the russians are. whoo, i'm ashamed to speak. russian, i will learn ukrainian. they buried carina here and bill at circa, near the morgue. 2 weeks after her 23rd birthday. ah, since the war started in ukraine, many people in lithuania have feared a russian invasion. in particular, there's been growing concerned about the su. well, key gap,

lithuania is only land link with its nato partners. bollywood slash gauss. gus is straining for the worst case scenario. is a member of the lithuanian rifleman union, a state beg borrow military group that has been growing ever since. russia annexes grand, nea in 2014 i. o sales propaganda, old born russian state propaganda targeted lithuania for us. it meant we could be the next ones with especially if you live here in the saw called while g gap, lithuania, us only length connection with its western natal pod mouse. this stretch of land is crucial for the transport of goods and military equipment. these to walter gap is just 65 kilometers wide. it's located exactly here between the russian exclaim of

calling the ground on the one side and rush us. l. a. bela rose on the other side. in lithuania, many fears that russia might try to cut this land breached of the west tension. suppose moscow has been rising. lesonia has been a member of nato since 2004. but since the start of the void, ukraine, politicians and normal citizens have grown more determined, i would say we owe you more about drugs, which is to defend your freedom and so on. it's like understanding before forces, fundamental things we have just few here of to prepare ourselves. that's why we need, ah, more natal presence in our region as a very credible that that of deterrence against russia. this is also the aim of an unusual art exhibition in the capital videos. this drain from moscow stops twice a day here on its way to the russian exclaim of calling and grat. russian

passengers are not allowed to get off, but they are confronted with photos of war outside to their windows. when polish kolscott is not training for battle, he takes off his rifle, mammy uniform to work as a lawyer, that early global. so i have russian clients that i keep in touch with, i don't feel any personal hatred towards them, but rather towards the russian state and russian stayed propaganda. obama lincoln, many here would agree with him. lithuanians have been called to between a constant state of vigilance and resilience. but with the onset, all the void, ukraine, people living in the so wild to gap, i look into the future with even more concerned little davida suffers from a life threatening illness. just recently,

he and his family fled ukraine. now german doctors are fighting for his life. vetoed on a chick escape the war in ukraine by fleeing to germany. now her main worry is keeping her 10 month old son, david's a life. he needs breathing equipment to stop his lungs collapsing. davina suffers from spinal muscular atrophy. a rare degenerative disease causing gradual loss of function without treatment. babies with the condition usually die by the age of to me that a yes or like i can't sleep at nights even when does he does the sleep hours aluminum. i keep checking on him. i pray to god that he wants stuff breathing. why and sometimes it seems like he is not breathing

that the going if it's a genetic disease where you can simply lose your child in a moment. veto lift your crane with the eats and her older son at young, who was 7. just as the 1st shots were being fired, like you ought to, when i saw the fear in our jumps eyes i am new, we had to flee back home and ukraine. vito was able to race $11000.00 euros a month for david's treatment through crowd funding. here in germany, volunteers including jojo and sunday, rena, help her to obtain the drugs and german health insurance covers what's needed now. in the longer term davita will need gene therapy, costing to 1000000 euros. it's not clear whether that will be covered when does

ellen gene. so i just have to hope we can get the treatment for david or a ticket that i know that he would live. yes, i don't know whether he would be able to set up a walk, but i know he would live. having fled the war with the children and coping with of its illness liter cannot be certain she will ever return to ukraine. but she remains resolute. your mom of that i am firstly, the mother of 2 sons. walks in the woods, give young and i cannot be. we key fob with that a new medicine. got my and i have to stay strong. ah

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