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ah ah ah ah. 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 in 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 studio here, but when i think about ukraine than i remember how my daddy was shot like to place to contact and i'm afraid. yeah. good luck with does orders jack? good day, you 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 here in my shut 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 return to their old life, and keith is not possible. everything is gone at the start of the war. they fled chief 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 o mark, 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. 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 i actually the her husband and daughters car was hit and came to

a heart. she initially hurried on in fear for her life, but then turned around and came back. i stopped in front of the tank and i got out of the car slowly with my hands raised the tank aim bits candidate me yesterday. when i moved to the right the canon moved. right. if i move to the left followed, and yet i was holding up my hands the whole time and begging them don't shoot, don't shoot. but i see when is 3 last mystery that i saw eventually russian soldier beckoned me to come closer, sold out the ones because he told me to kneel down. so i knelt gardenia. he asked me where the ukrainian forces were. i said, i didn't know you'll go to the gym to see you. he asked me why i was there and

where i was going. when i was going home and asked him to please let me pass, 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 hard. he fired his gun and hit me from behind in my shoulder. and i fell to the ground upon your phone. i. 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. 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 while later my daughter told me that they had come under heavy fire in early 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 strength and envoy. she's not on you. i'll screw you york no 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, and yet i was in the hospital and my cuddly toy was with me is wash combust. he's a dog and it's called mob sick level to global stag in you,

you see the doctors wanted to stick a needle in me and you, you had heard so much a screaming to putting it. so could you just get your shit? i probably scared all the children in the hospital why i am discharging at the new 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 didn't last and only a goose. 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 mob sick 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 a 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 the one, the few or ideas they have about the world to push tillman, 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 t for con, secret i am. 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 placement. owns hidden woods. ha. oh mine, i will sink 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. i'm tasked but the sign as, as cut, an amicus bas. yep. and how they think nothing can happen to them. and then suddenly everything changes. i said tv 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 loved and knew that gave them a sense of safety and well being. i want 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, you know, just a mosquito ship 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 lead their homes last year. the united nations has never registered so many child refugees in such a short time. yeah, i sent in law. the numbers are unbelievable. from the 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 manage to flee before their homes were attacked on order. since they've still been ripped out of their normal surroundings, lean calling from before you to get a how is the undergrad from gardens and they've lost family members and friends in just their normal lives. amelia follow. they've had to leave their toys behind her lawn when i'm fucking were children. those are very traumatic experiences. lesson missile on 15 doesn't affect from out the chef on 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. on the buffalo 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, why isn't a docile law? 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 it's 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 holidays . i'll never forget the 16 year old girl, dear chunky flat, all on her own from the city of so me i me but her parents were in one place. she was in another home, you still noble after she came from a difficult family years study and the cisco now she spent 4 or 5 days on the run all on her own holiday, heading to levine on buses and trains. eyes is the ship, but apparently not 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 the store, sharon, for wallace or somebody, mr. salma equal. when she came to leave to our center, we took her in the alley. i'm a very simple up in the rational and once here that then all she wanted to do was help the other children. christina casala, kaitlin is charles boy. 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 that knowledge shall live a lawyer, they knew they had to go to school, thought they, they had goals that they wanted to achieve. the bottle, they wanted to go to university. they had dreams that absolutely. now they just have one dream over a month. it said that all this would end people would know 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 yet sure. we tried 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 if they can develop progressive or destructive behavior patterns that are then hard to get out of the thing. the more in that that can lead to psycho sematic illnesses and even suicide, which is what there could be all kinds of post traumatic stress disorders. so that there was a more support 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? a 7 year old alyssa

also had to make the journey from ukraine. her life has changed completely. her favorite pastime now is playing with odda, 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. i have a very strong child and another child might have stayed in the car crying and not hidden in the forest. she's brave and strong, ruthless. she saved herself and even organized help for me. my husband could have lost consciousness and not been able to open the window near the creature she could have stayed in the car. will 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 any mischief 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, too. 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 have for a whole month, i couldn't tell her. i just couldn't bring myself to do it. on gabriela, alyssa kept asking, why isn't daddy coming to germany for treatment as well? no longer with us. yeah. why don't we call him with fear? i think she knew something was wrong. hughes, 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 in this. i came to me a few months ago and i think gifted who didn't. at that point, she was having

a lot of difficulty sleeping. so often quanta, he kinda small. her mother told me that alissa couldn't be on her own, couldn't she would cling to her mother and had separation anxiety when dividends. and she basically had a constant need to talk about what she'd experienced at seen. and it would come out gradually as she had sent and she talk a bit and then withdraw as she couldn't stay in her room on her own diet. and so she was displaying symptoms of anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder washer . and i spoke joseph coleman. we fortunately uli 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. because 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, or she to pursue? like go? well, 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. thank you. oh, they put a viagra. tombs needs and most of the bad dreams about a new boy yell. they're afraid to warn you that they'll be shot at, it would require you sneer don't so they bark really loudly love. pick you up like

a beach dorsey mc they dream of being shot at. yes, and this is caterpillar's bedroom upside and poppy also cry and woke to connect. yes. of course. which 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 book today. remember that people shot them to lead, oppressed and what else, alyssa? they always remember li saw that there was shot at van. they died. oh, they had no them. they were shot at and died little boy of a very afraid question. yes, don't you by you and when they're really afraid to look to their hearts them loudly . you've been weakened,

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? what did 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. critical. 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 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 in a regular routine going to school, you would be. so 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 mind. i'd coquettish pin 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. 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 dupes who cared. 300 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 visit so ox warner. we have very few resources that will have to stretch to treat even more children. am kinda who as her nor may kinda to be handled, but we want to help them, which didn't. and also the question we're asking is as fin bein, 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 seaside. 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 bye 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. they're big agent said that so one night he ran far away. deep into the forest. why are 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, you do so and he'd become as 12. 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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