now you have a steady schedule train, you can choose to go back to somewhere else. currently more people than ever on the move world wide in such a better life. so why, but i want to go back and i and yeah, like i don't have any reason school, but there's no reason that's moving for me that yeah, i believe something great is coming very, very soon. and yeah, can we learn more about lease story in for my grief? reliable news from my grins wherever they may be with oh

lou ah ah ah ah. it's a hot summer's day and the germans 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 in the war raging back home in ukraine as far away and yet always there in their thoughts in their memories, in their emotions. oh, shoot. yeah, it here by you, when i think about ukraine than i remember how my daddy was shot like a place to perfect and i'm afraid. yeah, good luck with this gorgeous check from day and even here if we try fast. i remember my last car drive with my daddy. here we go really fast, so the tank wouldn't hit us. yeah, honey, in my shut it hit us anyway. this is dean

lou alyssa and her mother, now live in a small town near dresden. they don't know how long they'll be here, a return 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 32, homer families on march. 3rd, we were near keith. he 14, we had actually decided that day to drive back home sinewy, whom we left with 2 cars to keep my husband and daughter were in the 1st car. i was following him. the 2nd day after driving for about 7 minutes, we came under fire. we drove faster, but then on the shitoria highway we were shot out from the forest. and actually

through that, seeing 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. these hello, i stopped in front of the tank and the list was looked on. cough i got out of the car slowly with my hands raised assuming when you out of the tank aim bits candidate me. yesterday i, when i moved to the right the can and moved. right. if i move to the left, it followed and yet i was holding up my hands the whole time, ayala and begging them don't shoot, don't shoot, i will keep with you any stay like mystery night. ah, for the slogan, eventually a russian soldier beckoned me to come closer, fell about the ones cuz he told me to kneel down. so i knelt gardenia when he asked me, were 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 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, and 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. help all yo 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, her old daughter. ah, we knew the 2 of them were somewhere far away from me. i didn't know what had happened to them. almost a pot of gold were later my daughter told me that they had come under heavy fire in early the car started admitting smoke and you your smoke was so bad they could no

longer breathe. been feeling the bull, although my husband was badly wounded. he managed to open the window for her. he moved with his last strength and on both she not on him, a screw york machine, alyssa managed to climb out the window. she then hid in the forest 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. yeah, for me. and yet i was in the hospital and my cuddly toy was with me, is worse combust, he's a dog and is called up sick. to welcome stag in you,

you should a doctors wanted to stick a needle and me and you, you had heard so much a scream to finding it. so could you just get your shit? i probably scared all the children in the hospital. why i am discharging at thing you boy and literally the doctor said it wouldn't hurt, but it did. elk low. they also promised to bring much sick back to me. let's say dinner and only a goose cook. i knew not sick was just as injured as i was. we both had bullet wounds of you. and then my senior and my other toys all burned up in the car in 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 and award 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 a 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 are in and when the fewer ideas they have about the world and 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 force of the children have no prior concept of the

world. as it is then they will perceive it as a very dangerous and unsafe place. not only human would far, oh mine, i will think my own life is very unsafe and my fate is uncertain. and cost us money. then men kind of as children have had no dramatic experiences, they feel their invincible and somehow untouchable past and cost. but to sign as, as cut and impact, 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. biggest loser? ah, since the russian invasion on february 24th last year, many children in ukraine have seen their world turn into a nightmare from

one day to the next. many have lost almost everything that they've loved and knew that gave them a sense of safety and well being a monitor 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 unit oh, interesting received of his 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 all the numbers are unbelievable. funds are 2 thirds of ukraine's children have had to leave their homes to the philosophy. many

a 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, how is the undergrad from robinson? they've lost family members and friends and just their normal lives in their follow . they've had to lead their toys behind to law on. i'm fucking were children. those are very traumatic experiences. lawson missile on. so kinda in the south from alta shall fall in 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 everyday lives. ah, 6 year old natasha already knows what war is. and i bought it when something explodes that's war. but that, that, that it, 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, why is it a dozen la higher 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, whitney has taken in hundreds of them. allow we holidays. i'll never forget the 16 year old girl. you shall go flat all on her own from the city of so me. i remember to come. her parents were in one place. she was in another home. you have a number left. she came from a difficult family year year study and was his grandma. she spent 4 or 5 days on the run of all on her own 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 re, it's georgia for while as a summer, mr. summer eco, when she came to leave to our center, we took her in the alley. i'm a very similar plan of rational and once here that then all she wanted to do was help the other children for senior casala because it ms. chombo 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 wartime. providing reassurance and hope to these newly orphan children is equally difficult. when there's knowledge of milva lowered, they knew they had to go to school or not they. they had goals that they wanted to achieve, but they're all they wanted to go to university. they had dreams that excellent. now they just have one dream. over more 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 took no young immortal him or or be i can't promise them that approach. but i tried to restore their confidence. are you there are faith in the future and bring back some positive emotions for them august the moment that the more sure. are you sure we try 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 in that that can lead to psychosomatic illnesses than even suicide. would there could be all kinds of post traumatic stress disorders. it said that there was a more have with that, but they as that back 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 ammonia which if i have a very strong child on oakmore, 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, walked near to critique. she could have stayed in the car will will if it doesn't bear thinking about you. me for

a long time. alyssa didn't know what had happened to her father. you don't have me 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 renewed. when we went to school, she'd keep looking back to see if any one was following us. no, i thought you'd please stay on. nathan, if you'd have 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 in this? i came to me a few months ago, i think who does, and at that point she was having a lot of difficulty sleeping there, flesh, clapham quantity can this 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 at seen. and it would come out gradually as it st. and she talk a bit and then withdraw him as she couldn't stay in her room on her own him died and so she was displaying symptoms of anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. washer glass took strong symptom. fortunately, eulley golub speaks fluent russian, which is enough to communicate with alyssa. she grew up in russia and moved to germany. 20 years ago. she opted 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 of being well they even snore blanket wrap it really. they snore, lucy, and do they dream to what kind of dreams are they good or bad? or she to pursue? oh boy, 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, the foot of the egg, our swim, sleeps, and most of the bad dreams about the new boy. well,

they're afraid he is pulling that they'll be shot at it. and the one you sneeze don't so they bark really loudly love. pick you up like a beach dorsey mc they dream of being shot at yes. and is as casual as that room up like him. poppy 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 us. what do they remember that people shot them to load? oppressed and what else, alyssa? they always remember only show me that there was shot at van. they died, they hadn't done, they was shot at and died a little bit of a very afraid question. yes. okay, don't you by you and when they're really afraid to look to their hops,

them loudly. legion. they shake all over and can't stop shaking. phil, at least as could alyssa, what helps them when they're afraid? what can we do if i wanted i need to be comforted and given a cuddle on them. they're not afraid of me because you don't you show me how you cuddle them because ah, 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 fun by things by no means all the children from ukraine will need therapy on guns

. what can really support them as having structure, days and a regular routine going to school, you were busy taking part in clubs, being with family, amelia. and i think for loss of children, the most important thing is to create a normal every day routine, mild and i'll talk to had switched pin yes. but some of these children will start to display symptoms over time, right? in torment sign bits and a small number will need professional help on his nearly he for brow germany has taken in more than a 1000000 refugees from ukraine. among them $350000.00 children statistics suggest 40 percent. 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. and in the kingdom, job security, there are some disorders where children and young people are waiting up to 8 months for a 1st appointment, bacon and young lincoln 40 percent and visit. so act one and we have very few resources that will have to stretch to treat even more children am can school as her nor may kinda to be handled, but we want to help them which dylan and also the question we're asking is as fin be in how can we manage if we soon get a significantly increased number of patients seeking help because 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. please. she was in a dance club. she went for english lessons and had holidays at the sea side. when everything was good, she often asks me why the russians came into our 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 duck's nest and not from a swan. and when the takes hatched, they were all yellow except one which was gray. 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 grey and b e aging sir. so one night he ran far away, deep into the forest, one or visual one. then i saw a hunter behind the bushes and head you. 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 will. you do so, and he'd become a swan to. and then he flew to warmer countries and made friends with other spawns the end. mm mm ah ah ah ah

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