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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 bun holiday. they are refugee these 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 for studio here by you, when i think about ukraine than i remember how my daddy was shot to place to contact. and i'm afraid he had your local, quickest orders checked on day. and even here, if we drive fast, i remember my last car drive with my daddy. here, we just really fast, so the tank wouldn't hit us kick in on 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 3 to hallmark family, which on march 3rd, we were near keith. he 14, we had actually decided that day to drive back home sim, you 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 this shitoria highway we were shot at from the forest. and 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 machine and the tank aimed candidate me yesterday when i moved to the right the canon moved. right. if i move to the left and followed, and yet i was holding up my hands the whole time and begging them, don't shoot, don't shoot. press you when he's 3 loud mystery that i eventually a russian soldier beckoned me to come closer, filled out the ones because he told me to kneel down. so i knelt when he asked me where the ukrainian forces were. i said, i didn't know you go to the gym to see you. he asked me why i was there and where i was going on. could he said i was going home with him and asked him to please let

me pass when you marched alone. 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. apollo yelled 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 got me and the 2 of them were somewhere far away from me. i didn't know what had happened to them at almost a pot of gold or 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 shingle. 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'd screw you jak 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 hospital and my cuddly toy was with me. is worse compressed. he's a dog and is called mop sick. w. welcome stag. in you, you see the doctors wanted to stick a needle in me and you, you had heard so much

a scream to finding it. so could you just take 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 me how come they also promised to bring much sick back to me. it was a dinner and only a goose. i knew knob sick was just as injured as i was. we both had bullet wounds of you and then much thing. yes. 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 me, doctor? you? the golub who originates from russia herself, heads up a clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at dress tens 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 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 the force of the children have no prior concept of the world is then they will perceive it as a very dangerous and unsafe placement on human would ha, oh mine,

i will think my own life is very unsafe and my face 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 cost. but the sign as, as cut, an amicus 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 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 monarch . 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 funeral interest and received of 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. aah! around 5000000 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 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. i mean, they follow, they've had to leave their toys behind to law on. i'm fucking were children. those are very traumatic experiences. lawson missile on for kinda us 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 have 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 landed when i ukrainians are angry at the russians for destroying our homes and bombing us. that swore but then i'm afraid when they start shooting. why isn't that 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 it's taken in 200000 refugees, including many children. some have come without their parents. an orphanage run by the private charity fund britney. has taken in hundreds of them allow we whole of

is i'll never forget the 16 year old girl due to glad all on her own from the city of sue me. i need but to come. her parents were in one place. she was in another home. you have a number left, she came from a difficult family. yesterday i had lost his grandma, she spent 4 or 5 days on the run, all on her own. heading to live eve on buses and trains. eyes is the shop bye to pay him for now. 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 historic sharon for wallace or someone. mr. sola eco. when i came to leave to our center, we took her in the alley, i'm a very civil up in the rational and once here that then all she wanted to do was help the other children, christina casala, because it will be shut off by other 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, thought they, 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 know that they would be able to go back home and get back. all that they've lost short took no young morcia him or or b, i can't promise them that approach. 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 one moment that the more sure, 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. 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 psychosomatic illnesses and even suicide. which would there could be all kinds of post traumatic stress disorders. so that's, that was on worship with that. but they said that 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? 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 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 too. 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, walk 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 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, but 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 could please stay on them if you'd have for a whole month. i couldn't tell her i just couldn't bring myself to do it on the radio, 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 a fear. 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,

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 been in this i came to me a few months ago and i think give think, who didn't at that point, she was having a lot of difficulty sleeping in class laquanta. she can just move. her mother told

me that alyssa couldn't be on her own, couldn't she would cling to her mother and had separation anxiety diligence and she basically had a constant need to talk about what she'd experienced, etc. and it would come out gradually as she had sent. and she talk a bit and then withdraw him. she couldn't stay in her room on her own dive and so she was displaying symptoms of anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. and good last talks 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 if i shall tell me alissa how i'm up 2nd puppy sleeping at the moment to speculate. you know, they're most sibling. wow. they even snar like a happy really. they snore, lucy, and do they dream to what kind of dreams are they good or bad? o'shea to pursue blind to go like sometimes they have bad dreams, but mostly good. oh cool. when they have a bad dream they bark loudly to the whole night or snore really badly. thank you. oh, if one of the i stems moves, and most of the bad dreams about a yell, so they're afraid he is pulling that they'll be shot. allen, calling you from the door. so they bark really loudly. love picked you up like

a beach to see them. so they dream of being shot at yes. at least, caterpillars that room up like a poppy also cry more to condense. yes, of course. but you morning. what makes them cry? when they remember their old lives? they start to cry and run around the apartment. he appears to be honest, what do they remember that people shot them to learn? they always remember early. sure. in the that there was shot at van they died. go live now than they were 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 hearts them loudly . you can reach and 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? who did i need to be comforted and given a cuddle? well then they're not afraid of me because it's done. 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 structured days and a regular routine going to school 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, mild and i'll talk to had switched pin. yes. but some of these children will start to display symptoms over time. in torment sagen between 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 am in the kingdom duplicate that he 0 some disorders where children and young people are waiting up to 8 months for a 1st appointment breakin 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. i'm kinda soon as you know may kinda to be handled, but we want to help them which didn't. and also the question we're asking is jasmine, 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 enclave. she was in a dance club. she went for english lessons and had holidays at the c side. when everything was good, she often asked me why the russians came into our country. why they invaded our land upon. oh, 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 it 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 yet because he was grey and b e aging sick. that so one night he ran far away, one deep into the forest, one visual, one, then esa hunter behind the bushes and hid you. he ran on and saw a white swans flying in the sky. he really wanted to become a swan to you, and then he saw his reflection in the water. 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

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