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ah. it's a hot summer's day in the german city of dresden, a huge bun fair 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 for sure. yeah. here, but when i think about ukraine than i remember how my daddy was shot to place to contact and i'm afraid. yeah, good luck with this gorgeous chicken day. and even here, if we drive fast, i remember my last car drive with my daddy via. we drove it really fast, so the tank wouldn't hit us. yeah, honey, in my but it hit us anyway in this is to ah, 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 is 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 come 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 with the key. my husband and daughter were in the 1st car i was following in the 2nd you get them 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 still had seen 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 olu, i stopped in front of the tank and the whistles looked on. cough i got out of the car slowly with my hands raised assuming when you're 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 light. ah, for your, 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 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, 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 up almost a pot of gold while 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, been feeling the bull. although my husband was badly wounded, he managed to open the window for her. he moved with his last your strength and envoy. she's not on you at girl you 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 you need done 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. never to global stag in you, you shouldn't. doctors wanted to stick a needle in me. and you, you had heard so much a screaming to putting it so could he charges or should i probably scared all the children in the hospital. why? i'd be shot at the new boy and learn, the doctor said it wouldn't hurt, but it did me elk low. they also promised to bring much sick back to me.

darcy, this is jan land and only a blue sky. i knew nob 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 mob sake, a 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 kinda send, the younger the children are in the one, the fewer ideas they have about the world and you pushed in that 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 to for the children have no prior concept of the world tis, then they will perceive it as a very dangerous and unsafe place. and only him would ha, oh mine, i will think my own life is very unsafe and my fate is uncertain. m 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 the 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. delicacy, 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've loved and knew that gave them a sense of safety and well being. a mano, 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, interest and received of him 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 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 life. amelia follow,

they've had to lead their toys behind to law on. i'm fucking were children. those are very traumatic experiences. lesson 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. 6 year old natasha already knows what war is, the barclays 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, a docile bah, i live in levine. by contrast in western ukraine, life 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 . brittany has taken in hundreds of them allow we whole of his. i'll never forget the 16 year old girl, dear chunky 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 east of a novel after she came from a difficult family. years studying the cisco nor she spent 4 or 5 days on the run

all on her own. heading to levine on buses and trains. eyes is the ship fighter pay and we're not corolla on the way she had to take cover an air raid shelters because of rocket attacks. and everything else that was going on. a diety of distortion, wallace, a summer miss that sola eco. when she came to leave to our center, we took her in the alley. i'm a visual up in the rational and once here had it, then all she wanted to do was help the other children. christina casala green is charles wirebah. 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 knowledge shall live a lawyer. they knew they had to go to school,

thought they had goals that they wanted to achieve, the bottle, they wanted to go to university. they had dreams that us when they're here. now they just have one dream was over a little bit said that all this would end, people would have known that they would be able to go back home and get back. all that they've lost. sure. took no young marcia, him or or b, i can't promise them that much. but i tried to restore their confidence. i am their faith in the future and bring back some positive emotions for them. but i just a moment that the more sure a yes sure we try to create some good times for them. what bother with? because of children experienced no sense of joy or fun long term that they can get stuck it. they can develop progressive or destructive behavior patterns, stroke that are then hard to get out of the thing, the more in that that can lead to psychosomatic illnesses and even suicide, which is what there could be all kinds of post traumatic stress disorders. so that's, i was on worship with that, but they said that this border crossing

between ukraine and 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? the 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.

i don't know to i have a very strong child and another child might have stayed in the car crying and not hidden in the forest. she is brave and strong, and i wish las she saved herself and even organized help for me. smoke. my husband could have lost consciousness and not been able to open the window near the creature she could have stayed in the car. it doesn't bear thinking about him. ah, 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. papa knew when we went to school, she'd keep looking back to see if any one was following us. not that you 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? nagondo versus you? why don't we call him close to you? i think she knew something was wrong, is 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. walk 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 withdraw into themselves. there may be acute phases and then long periods where everything seems normal again. alyssa had to buy me unless i came to me a few months ago and i think to do some at that point she was having a lot of difficulty sleeping there. fresh clapham 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 at st. and it would come out gradually as it said, can she talk

a bit and then withdraw and she couldn't stay in her room on her own diet. and so she was displaying symptoms of anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder and glass books. joseph coleman. fortunately uli a 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 me. because if i shall tell me alissa how a moxie can puppy sleeping at the moment to speculate, you know, they're most saying, 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 like oh boy, sometimes they have bad dreams, but mostly good old school. when they have a bad dream, they bark loudly to the whole night or snore really badly. thank you. oh, good, a viagra, stim sleeves, and most of the bad dreams about a new boy, while 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 it possible that you might like him? poppy also cry more than that. yes, of course. i'll bet you morning. what makes them cry? when they remember their old lives, they start to cry and run around the apartment. he a pistol?

yes. what did they remember? that people shot them to load? oppressed and what else, alyssa? they always remember li saw me that there were a shot at van. they died. go live now than they were shot at and died little boy, are they very afraid? threaten yes, but don't you by you and when they're really afraid to do their hearts them loudly in region, they shake all over and can't stop shaking. still threaten at least as good alyssa, what helps them when they're afraid? what can we do for you? what did i need to be comforted and given a cato. oh, then they're not afraid. because it's done. you show me how you cuddle them because 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. 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 things by no means all the children from ukraine will need therapy on guns. what can really support them. it's having strokes a days and a regular routine going to school. you were busy taking part and clubs, being with family, amelia, and i think for loss of children, the most important thing is to create a normal every day routine mind and i'll talk had switched in. yes. but some of these children will start to display symptoms over time, right?

in torment sidon, bits and a small number will need professional help. i knew 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 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 and 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 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 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, can soon as her not make hinder to be handled, but we want to help them. which dylan's also the question we're asking is has been, 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. leave. 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 ducks 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 gray. every agent said that so one night he ran far away, deep into the forest are visual. and 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 size reflection and the water you will you do so and he'd become as 12. and then he flew to warmer countries and made friends with other sponsor the end ah

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