you can find much more on our website, dw, dot com ah ah, this week on world stories. how people in ukraine are trying to survive the russian attack and how france is taking in ukrainian female scientists who fled. we begin where the fighting is fiercest in ukraine. in the eastern city of lucy, chance thousands of residents are still holding out. the situation is critical and evacuation uncertain. for weeks listen chance has been without watch. up to day a truck is expected to bring drinking water. vera and others have been standing here for hours. actors, no one knows when they're going to bring it more than 20000 people to remain in the

city. fighting along the main road has made acts as difficult, and the city itself is by no means a safe haven. oh, what do you think of these normally living conditions? it's very difficult. why? oh is this roaring funder above your head? with a few kilometers from here, things are even more dia says to city of sierra donetta, because under constant fire, a bridge that leads there has been bombed, effectively trapping those who remain there. that is a fate that could also a wait list, a chance if fighting along the road continues. the city

has already taken quite a few hits. the government is trying to arrange evacuations while it's still possible. a few dozen people have been told that the bus would pick them up today. but also i were hoping that things might be ok. but when shells fly of your head and houses are burning, you just feel that you can't go on you. our nerves erect yet or when you're done, nobody knows when the bus is coming and there's no way to ask internet and phone service are down. the road has been given 10 liters of water. that's all for to day. she and a neighbor galena will have to come back soon. at night, they stay in the basement with dark. this is how we get down here is all the whole neighbourhood has moved into basement ross. 1234. and over there 6 people living here.

there's always fear that the next shell my teeth here, i feel sorry for my cat than myself. you cry every 5 minutes? sure. what will happen to him if i die? i will bury him. don't worry. over the evening is approaching to days of accusation. bus has not arrived yet. nobody knows whether it was to come or not. ah, due to the russian attack. over 6000000 people have left ukraine. many have fled to germany. $60000.00 to berlin alone. the safe starting over is not always easy as the memory of the destroyed homeland is always eminent. send me if ne of keith, after

a month of heavy russian selling much of the city is destroyed, it is anna and such as hometown. in march, the mother and daughter fled to berlin, but their thoughts as though with their family and friends in ukraine phillips, you smile in mind that a yoke i thought i thought my friends stayed in shenise. if my classmates would, i can't bear the thought that they did not have the chance to escape, even though they wanted to. i think it's terrifying. what button at the thought and even though i'm doing well here, it's hard because i can't help them back in ukraine and i was finishing up high school. sasha walked in a call center than the attack started. now they live with mountain and cornelia young english. he's an entrepreneur, she's a doctor. the couple drove to the polish ukrainian border to help any refugees and

take them to germany here and there in susan's it's honestly, humans are social beings. if someone folds down next to you, you bent down and picked them up again. it's completely natural for simpson to day and an sasha at the social welfare office. like o ukrainian refugees and germany, they can apply for financial aid. to day they receive that fast monthly payment, $350.00 euros each. when women speed was neck and we want to save up and send some money to grandmother so she can prepare her roof, the skin which was destroyed in the wool. but needless. anon, sasha want to integrate quickly. they have signed up for a german language course. a charge congregation organizes it for free hub in the community. do you have children? i have been, i am 2 children. if a little bit, if you go home, but it's okay with, oh yes,

we wouldn't. we want to start until monday. i play at them. so this is roy a, that's why with my new with the mother and daughter, i slowly finding that bearings and berlin and i could even imagine studying in germany. and last, i want the all to come back to ukraine to see my family members. but i think about leaving in terms of my life. yeah. and if don't both of us, if the i'm too old to completely overturn my former life, or my relatives on ukraine and my house to do, i want on that to decide for herself whether she wants to st. germany over time to ukraine. little. but i want to go home some day. you live there, most of the i yell at syllable, there are lots of them. what, but bullshit. but at the moment they have no idea how long that will take.

ah, ukrainians are also finding refuge further west. for example, in the from city of leon, which is known for its good reason, but also for its top universities. it's now a magnet for ukrainian academics the cloud, bernard university. in leon, it's known for its science and medicine programs. helene acoustic had silva and natalia jew benco arrived here from ukraine in march of the biologists. and long time colleagues fled key of along with their children during the russian bombing. even here in the lab, the harrowing events unfolding back home are never, far from their minds. was in that on look at which in i, as i start each morning by scrolling through the news and checking of my parents

and my husband in ukraine are okay. i was, i see, but i also have to use this opportunity shaun's being here. and leon ensures that my children are safe on the look mobile. yeah, that makes me feel less guilty them well. yeah, it's important to be able to continue doing scientific work and keep my mind busy that helps preserve my mental health or symbols, but if them and that in as little of you, the ongoing war in ukraine has meant that, like helena and natalia scientists and ph d, students are increasingly seeking refuge on foreign campuses, especially in france. same level. and then silicon rush, natalia and helena are part of a cutting ant european research project in leon. they're learning new techniques, the study of nano particles and their impact on cell cultures. the amos to detect and treat cancerous tumors without the harmful side effects of chemo or radiation therapy. but it's not all about work. the scientist are taking a day off from the campus to explore the city of leon with their children. the

sites here stir memories of their own home town and what they left behind yacht. the co shook denise. yeah, i'm an optimist the device and i really hope and believe that we will return to camp about when we finish. we absolutely need to go back because most of my life is darren shows you are you just when that does happen, natalia and helena planned to use the know how they've picked up in leon to help the development of research in ukraine based on if there was a dad ah, across the atlantic to the usa were luxurious nuclear bomb proof. bunkers are trending. why is that? and what is such an underground colossus cost? find out in the following report? if you turn on the news, you see north korea talking about nukes,

you say russia talking about nukes, you see trying to talking about news. i've never seen so many people talking about nuclear weapons or my life time. and it's scary. and that drives people to buy bunkers. ron hubbard owns one of the biggest spunk of building companies in the u. s. he founded atlas survival shelter 11 years ago. the factories based just one hour drive out of dallas, texas. these bunkers are not cheap. they average anywhere from $40000.00 to a $1000000.00. everybody's on board. no one thinks anybody's crazy for buying. i'm shelters now. we have a good business right now in ukraine and poland because war is going on there. i have several ukrainian customer, southern wealthy people in ukraine. they want to get a bunker as soon as they can like mediately or go on this one. this is a standard 10 food by 40 foot bunker, starting at $200000.00. this is the new american trend. i

sell millions of dollars of these every week. it's got a aguilar flush the toilet van at 8 granite counters. it's beautiful sliding doors . it has the under floor storage care, so they pulled up the air would run through this carbon filter with the hepa filter in it and would give you a breathable air. and when this is furnished and everything is going, you just feel like you're in an apartment or flat. demand is not only growing in eastern europe. it's also exploding in the us, even though ukraine is far away. hubbard ceased the reason behind that. in the fear obo, violence in the country struggling with extreme inequality and polarization, were more worried about other americans. been hungry and star, being and looting and robbing baths are immediate concerns. so people want

a place where they can take their family, keep and comfortable, safe and underground, who can actually afford that exclusive type of safety tv will be there and you're thinking, what about the regular people it's, it's unfortunate, but it's not fair, but the, the least the wealthy get to live a better life than the rest of us. with an interest in the global economy. our portfolio d w. business beyond. here, the closer look at the project. our mission. to analyze the

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