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it's a hot summer's day in the german city of dresden. a huge bun fare offers lots of fun for kids. 7 year old alyssa from keith has come with her mother. but the 2 of them are not here on a fun holiday. they are refugees who fled a brutal war in which they both almost died. the war raging back home in ukraine as far away and yet always there in their thoughts and their memories in their emotions. oh, shoot. yeah. yeah,

i do. when i think about ukraine than i remember how my daddy was shot like a place to contact and i'm afraid he had your local quickest orders checks from day and even here if we try fast, i remember my last car jive with my daddy. here we go really fast, so the tank wouldn't hit us yet in my but it hit us anyway in there for 15. ah, alyssa and her mother now live in a small town near dresden. they don't know how long they'll be here. a returned to their old life and keith is not possible. everything has gone at the start of the war. they fled keith as did many people, and went to the surrounding countryside. what they didn't know is that this area would become more dangerous than the city center. 3 to

hallmark come on march. 3rd, we were near keith. he 14, we had actually decided that day to drive back home sinewy. we left with 2 cars for picky. my husband and daughter were in the 1st car. i was following in the 2nd. after driving for about 7 minutes, we came under fire. we drove faster, but then on the shitoria highway, we were shot at from the forest. and actually the her husband and daughter's car was hit and came to a halt. she initially hurried on in fear for her life, but then turned around and came back. i stopped in front of the tank and he was i got out of the car slowly with my hands raised assuming when you're out of the tank aim bits. canon at me yesterday, right. when i moved to the right, the canon moved. right. if i move to the left, it followed, and yet i was holding up my hands the whole time of dollars and begging them,

don't shoot, don't shoot. we'll keep with you any still likeness 3 night. ah! for your, for the slogan, eventually a russian soldier beckoned me to come closer, filled out the ones cuz he told me to kneel down. so i knelt problem. i got a new one, actually asked me where the ukrainian forces were. i said, i didn't know, are you going to ch empty? said the, you, he asked me why i was there and where i was going on cuz i said, i was going home with you and asked him to please let me pass when you marched on. then he got really angry and started shouting at me. he kept asking me where the ukrainian soldiers were. suddenly i saw him reach for his machine gun. i jumped up and started to run your bike. he fired his gun and hit me from behind in my shoulder, and i fell to the ground up all your fall. she dragged herself to the edge of the

road and just lay on the ground. what happened next? she only knows from her 7 year old daughter. nothing of the 2 of them were somewhere far away from me. i didn't know what had happened to them up almost a pot of gold were later my daughter told me that they had come under heavy fire narly. the car started admitting smoke and your smoke was so bad they could no longer breathe seasonable. although my husband was badly wounded, he managed to open the window for her. you move with his last you strengthen envoy . she's not on you. i screw you jak machine. alyssa managed to climb up the window. she then hid in the 1st, in a trench abandoned by the russian soldiers there, she was bound by a member of ukraine's civilian defense force. he took her straight to hospital. she'd been shot in the shoulder, but was able to say what had happened. and thanks to her information,

her badly wounded mother was also found. a number of bullets had shattered parts of her right side. before fleeing to germany, both mother and daughter had to undergo emergency surgery. the little girl remembers everything you need done yet. i was in hospital and my cuddly toy was with me, is wash combust. he's a dog and is called mop sick. the welcome stag yang is you she, the doctors wanted to stick a needle and me and you, you had heard so much a scream to finding it. so could you judge dates or she'll probably scared all the children in the hospital. why? i'd be shutting ethan. your boy and literally the doctor said it wouldn't hurt, but it did me how come they also promised to bring much sick back to me. i didn't last and only a goose. ha. i knew not sick was just as injured as i was. we both had bullet

wounds of you and the nice thing. yeah. my other toys all burned up in the car. i only masika still with me in the house where i now live down the dilemma. the story of alyssa from keith is one of many, one of thousands in a war that is also a war against ukraine's children. how will they cope with the trauma they are experiencing? how will they process death and destruction? the loss of their homeland, the knowledge that they'll never see certain family members and friends again. how present is the war for them? and what scars does it leave behind dr. you the golub, who originates from russia herself, heads up at clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy, at dressed ins, university hospital. she says, experiencing war and violence at a young age affects a child for life. even with the conditioned the younger the children and when the

fewer ideas they have about the world to pushed in their concept of the well develops over time. and he's women. and so you can imagine the earlier, they suffer the trauma, the deeper and goes to falcons. he cry, nan and then the 4th in the children have no prior concept of the world. just as it is then they will perceive it as a very dangerous and unsafe placement or whatever. oh man, i will think my own life is very unsafe and my fate is uncertain. m t as less money than men, kind of as children have had no dramatic experiences, they feel their invincible and somehow untouchable past and past. but the sign as, as cut and amused bas. yep. and how they think nothing can happen to them. and then

suddenly everything changes as a disease. suddenly the world is not safe, it's not even for a 2nd. and the world is not fair. the world is evil. against buddha, ah, since the russian invasion on february 24th last year, many children in ukraine have seen their world turned into a nightmare from one day to the next. many have lost almost everything that they loved and knew that gave them a sense of safety and well being a hundreds of children have suffered injuries as a result of the russian invasion and occupation. they've experienced rocket attacks

and artillery fire which is the, you know, just received a hidden point gillian several 100 children are missing and well over 400 have been killed. those are the verified deaths, experts believe the true figure could be much higher. and each one is linked with immeasurable suffering. ah, towns, homes, and streets might get rebuilt once the war is over. but children cannot be brought back from the dead. ah

ah, around $5000000.00 of ukraine's children fled their homes last year. the united nations has never registered so many child refugees in such a short time. yeah, i sent over the numbers. they're unbelievable funds are 2 thirds of ukraine's children have had to leave their homes to the philosophy. many have fled abroad, others are internally displaced. this law, the number is so large, it's hard to comprehend. and the children are of course, traumatized by what they've experienced so many of suffered terrible violence or witnessed violence for calmness. and even if they managed to flee before their homes were attacked on order, since they've still been ripped out of their normal surroundings. lean calling from before it. yet a high is an undergrad from adams, and they've lost family members and friends in just their normal life. amelia follow, they've had to lead their toys behind a long and i'm fucking were children. those are very traumatic experiences. lesson

missile on. so kinda in the south from alisha fatherland. the towns of boucher, a pin and borrowed younger have become synonymous with war crimes. months after the atrocities were committed, these communities have become monuments to unimaginable suffering. very few of the people who fled here have returned. a few children play amongst the ruins. the war in its consequences had become part of their every day lives. ah, 6 year old natasha already knows what war is on the mafia when something explodes. that's war. that godaddy that. but when i ukrainians are angry at the russians for destroying our homes and bombing us. that's war. but then i'm afraid when they start shooting wires in

a duffel law in levine, by contrast in western ukraine, light appears to continue almost as normal. at times you could be forgiven for thinking the war is far away. the city has a normal population of 700000, but as taken in 200000 refugees, including many children, some have come without their parents. an orphanage run by the private charity fund, ridley has taken in hundreds of them. allow me holidays. i'll never forget a 16 year old girl. you shall go flat all on her own from the city of so me. i need to come. her parents were in one place. she was in another home. you have a number after she came from a difficult family year, year study, and thus his grandma, she spent 4 or 5 days on the, ran off all on her own. you had been wrong heading to levine on buses and trains. eyes is the shop, bye, repay,

and we're now corolla on the way she had to take cover in air raid shelters, because of rocket attacks and everything else that was going on a diety of it. so if you're in the wireless or someone, mr. salma, you call when she came to leave to our center, we took her in the alley, i'm a very civil opinion of rational and once here that then all she wanted to do was help the other children as soon as i last because it, when it's john boy, for children damaged by war, something ukraine is now facing on a grand scale. no one knows how many have lost their parents, nor what their future holds. finding parents to adopt the children or act as legal guardians is almost impossible in war time. providing reassurance and hope to these newly orphan children is equally difficult. one is norlisha, live a lawyer. they knew they had to go to school, so they, they had goals that they wanted to achieve. the bottle, they wanted to go to university. they had dreams that us only here now they just

have one dream for us over a lot they said that all this would end able would know that they would be able to go back home and get back all that they've lost short book, no young, immortal him or or be i can't promise them that not much, but i tried to restore their confidence. are you there faith in the future and bring back some positive emotions for them but i just one moment that the more sure . are you sure we tried to create some good times for them? what was the work? because of children experienced no sense of joy or fun, long term that they can get stuck if they can develop regressive or destructive behavior patterns that are then hard to get out of the thing, the more so in that that can lead to psychosomatic illnesses and even suicide, would there could be all kinds of post traumatic stress disorders. so that's, that was a more of what the, but they assess, ha, ah, this border crossing between ukraine in romania has become known as the bridge of toys. the initiative was started by local people on the romanian side. children

leaving ukraine are encouraged to pick out a toy to accompany them on their journey. a small consolation for all they have lost. where will their journey take them? and will they ever be able to return and see their father's uncles and friends? 7 year old alyssa also had to make the journey from ukraine. her life has changed completely. her favorite pastime now is playing with ata. her host families dog. on the surface, she seems like a completely normal confident, happy child that has survived the war unscathed. no, no, no to and i have a very strong child in o'clock. another child might have stayed in the car,

crying and not hidden in the forest. my gypsies, brave and strong on the wish left, she saved herself and even organized help for me. woke my husband could have lost consciousness and not been able to open the window. look near to critique. she could have stayed in the car will, will it doesn't bear thinking about you. i for a long time, alyssa didn't know what had happened to her father. you don't have any may have. at 1st, eliza couldn't stay asleep. she'd wake up in the night crying and asking for her daddy. she wanted to know why he wasn't with us. she wanted to go to him and have a cuddle for you. when we went to school, she'd keep looking back to see if any one was following us. no, i thought you could please stay on.

nathan, if you'd for a whole month, i couldn't tell her. i just couldn't bring myself to do it. over you, alyssa kept asking, why isn't daddy coming to germany for treatment as well? why don't we call him to stay on? i think she knew something was wrong. i was afraid to talk about him to you, but she insisted i call him when you. so i was forced to tell her that her daddy was dead and wouldn't be coming back. she cried aloud ah ah,

post traumatic stress disorder or p t s d. can manifest itself in various ways in young children. some fall behind in their development and can no longer do certain things that they could do before. some withdrawn to themselves. there may be acute phases and then long periods where everything seems normal again. alyssa, has he been, alyssa came to me a few months ago. i think who does an at that point she was having a lot of difficulty sleeping there, laughing quantity kinda small. her mother told me that alyssa couldn't be on her own, couldn't she would cling to her mother and had separation anxiety when templates. and she basically had a constant need to talk about what she'd experienced, etc, and it would come out gradually as an insult and she talk a bit and then withdraw. and she couldn't stay in her room on her own died and

so she was displaying symptoms of anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder washer . and the last talks during symptom. fortunately, you, lia golub speaks fluent russian, which is enough to communicate with alyssa. she grew up in russia and moved to germany 20 years ago. she often for a short term therapy using a cuddly toy puppy. it's based on a method developed by israeli psychologists for treating trauma and children. the idea is that children can transfer their emotions to the puppy and find it much easier to talk about a toy like mob sick, for example, alyssa's toy dog that was with her in the car when she was shot at. cuz it's i shall tell me alissa how a mob 2nd puppy sleeping at the moment to speculate. you know, they're mostly being well, they even snore like a happy really. they snore, lucy, and do they dream to what kind of dreams are they good or bad?

hot or she to pursue like oh boy, sometimes they have bad dreams, but mostly good old school when they have a bad dream, they bark loudly that the whole night or snore really badly. thank you. oh, good, a viagra, slim sleeves, and most of the bad dreams about a new boy. yeah. well, they're afraid he is boring, that they'll be shot at. it would require you snake don't. so they bark really loudly love. pick you up like repeat, dorsey mc they dream of being shot at yes. and is as casual as that room up like a puppy. also cry, whoops, it, yes, of course. i'll put you morning. what makes them cry? when they remember their old life? they start to cry and run around the apartment. he appears to in his what do they remember that people shot them to lead, oppressed and what else,

alyssa? they always remember early. sure . in the that there were a shot at van they died. stephen, and then they was shot at and died a little bit of a very afraid threatening. yes. okay, don't you by you and when they're really afraid to do their hearts them loudly. legion. they shake oliver and can't stop shaking phil polices, but alissa, what helps them when they're afraid? what can we do? i need to be comforted and governor kado. then they're not afraid. because you can you show me how you cuddle them because you pretty much. mm. mm. it's designed like a game, but in the game,

alyssa is learning that she can talk about the things that are bothering her, that there's someone who will listen. someone who cares and can help them and most important of all that she's not alone with the feelings that she's carrying. it aims to give back a sense of normality. that's very important for children like alyssa as a from by themes, by no means all the children from ukraine will need therapy. oh god, what can really support them? it's having strokes a days in a regular routine going to school. we're busy taking part and clubs, being with family emilia, and i think for loss of children, the most important thing is to create a normal, everyday routine and no mind and i'll talk to her tosh pin. yes. but some of these children will start to display symptoms over time, right? and tumor sang between and

a small number will need professional help on it. is nearly he for brow. germany has taken in more than a 1000000 refugees from ukraine. among them $350000.00 children, statistics suggest 40 percent of those children will suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. and then 10 percent will require treatment. that means $20000.00 children could be admitted to clinics in germany. something the country's health system isn't prepared for assist. so even before the war broke out, we had very few resources for child and adolescent psychiatry creek am in the kindle, duplicate that he 0 some disorders where children and young people are waiting up to 8 months for a 1st appointment, bacon and young lincoln would you pretend and be so r one and we have very few resources that will have to stretch to treat even more

children. am candice whom as her nor may kinda to be handled, but we want to help them, which didn't. and i'll, so the question we're asking is as fin being, how can we manage if we soon get a significantly increased number of patients seeking help calmed we hadn't, ah, alyssa is now going to a german elementary school. it's almost as if nothing ever happened. as though it was the most normal thing in the world as yet, she doesn't fully understand what her teacher and fellow students are saying. and she still remembers every day what her life was like before the war. not a minute, alyssa had a good and happy life in ukraine glee. she was in

a dance club. she went for english lessons and had holidays at the sea side. when everything was good, she often asked me why the russians came into war country. why they invaded our land upon. ah, it's often thought that happy children are the key to a happier world in the future. alyssa is lucky to be alive. now she says she loves reading fairy tales like the story of the ugly duckling by hans christian andersen, which is also well known in ukraine. ah, and why fairy tales? because they always have a happy ending. i know a fairy tale about a great duckling. there was once a swan with 4 chicks. they were still in their eggs. one egg happened to roll away and land in the nest of a duck. she did him sadly. it was a ducks nest and not from a swan. and when the takes hatched,

they were all yellow except one which was grey. butch, the yellow chicks wouldn't play with the gray one. i thought even the mummy ducked and want to have anything to do with him because he was gray. m b e aging said that so one night he ran far away deep into the forest while this young man, then i saw a hunter behind the bushes and head. yeah. he ran on and saw white swans flying in the sky. he really wanted to become a swan to you and then he saw his reflection and the water. yeah. you are, you do still and he'd become a 12. and then he moved to warmer countries and made friends with other sponsor the end ah

ah ah ah ah. niko is in germany to learn german lloyd pinnacle. why not learn with him? d, w e learning course, eco's fake. a in many countries, education is still a privilege. property is one of the main causes some young children walk in mind, child instead of going to class others can attend classes only after they finish

working with millions of children over the world can't go to school. we ask why, because education makes the world more just like make up your own mind a d. w. made for mines with this week on world stories helping the home less than india. french be strows as world heritage sites. but we begin in ukraine. we're fearing a new russian offense.