only turned into this ultimate realization, russia swore, had begun when the war began, i was still in the train, heading east, from here to the dumbass for a reporting assignment. i remember getting on that train the pre mixed feelings, there was a real sense that the russian state tv propaganda line was getting more aggressive . but after lots foresaw, this might really be the real thing. whatever else on that train was just too much surely relaxed. they were commenced, this was just clicking, but a grand standing that nothing would actually happen or may not be able to sleep, just kind of glued to my phone. and then in the early hours, there was that push notification that putin given the speech russian troops were crossing the border. and just as i started making sense that the internet connection broke off and for 1015 minutes the time i just had no further information, no ability to contact anyone to find out if this was really true. and this happened a couple of times. eventually we started hearing bangs, what blade turned out to be an attack on a ukrainian air during we happened to be passing an hour to conduct the train. i

said i want to get off. i don't want to go for the reset. it was go closer to these russian troops and she didn't get it. she just couldn't process it. she couldn't, except this was a genuinely dangerous situation. i was only one who got off at that station and it was still before dawn. but immediately people had got in line in front of petrol stations. front of supermarkets in front of banks. there was shocks, there were days that this was something bigger. this wasn't just in dumbass, but they weren't panicking. that was the kind of extraordinary thing. the national anthem was playing on the 10 was the town. people were making preparations, but they weren't panicking. all right, well that's all for now. up next, a documentary, children of war, ukraine's youngest victims. 2 thirds of the country's children are fortunately refugees, and many have experienced a loss of loved ones, separation from family members, to destruction of their homes, fear, or the move to a foreign country. the film focuses on the children of odessa hockey butcher and give if i'm pablo phone alias for me and the team here in berlin. thanks for

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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. their 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 stay here by you 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 quickness orders check from day you and even here, if we drive 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 the 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 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, whom we left with 2 cars with the key. my husband and daughter were in the 1st car i was following in 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 at 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 lou, i stopped in front of the tank on the list was a lutheran 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 of your life and begging them don't shoot, don't shoot. you pursue anything like mystery light. ah! for help of 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 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 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, let me know 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 or later my daughter told me that they had come under heavy fire narly. the car started emitting smoke and you your smoke was so bad they could no longer breathe. she nibbled, although my husband was badly wounded. he managed to open the window for her. he moved with his last strength on both she not on him, a screw you jak 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 is called up sick. to welcome stag in you, you should the doctors wanted to stick a needle and me and you, you had heard so much a scream to finding it. so could he just dig through shill? i probably scared all the children in the hospital. why i need this job at thing you boy. and literally the doctor said it wouldn't hurt, but it did me ok low. they also promised to bring much sick back to me. this

is jan law and only a blue sky. i knew not sick was just as injured as i was. we both had bullet wounds of you. and then last thing you had 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 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 4th and 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 mine, 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 enemies. 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. good. buddha 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 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 unit. oh, she's done with point gillian several 100 children are missing and well over $400.00 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. 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 out of. 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 leave their toys behind a long and i'm fucking were children. those are very traumatic experiences. lesson missile on foot, kinda in the south from all to show a fatherland ah, the towns of boucher, a pin, and burrowed younger had 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 box when something explodes, that's war. that godaddy let him 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 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 ridden he 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 sue me. i mean, but her parents were in one place. she was in another home east of a novel after she came from a difficult family year study. and thus his grandma, she's been 4 or 5 days on the run all on her own holiday,

heading to levine on buses and trains. eyes is the ship, but a painful knock on the way she had to take cover and air raid shelters, because of rocket attacks and everything else that was going on a diety of. so if she has a wallace or someone miss that soma eco, when she 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 greenish charles, both 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 absolutely. now they just have one dream was over a month it 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 moisture him or or be 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. i guess the moment that the more sure yet 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 it. they can develop progressive or destructive behavior patterns through that are then hard to get out of the thing. the more in that that can lead to psychosomatic illnesses than even suicide. which would, there could be all kinds of post traumatic stress disorders. so that's i was on worship with that, but they are sent back 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? 7 year old alyssa also had to make the journey from ukraine. her life has changed completely. her favorite pastime now is playing with auda, her host families, dog. on the surface, she seems like a completely normal confident, happy child that has survived the war unscathed. no

ammonia, which if i have a very strong child, hung up with another child, might have stayed in the car, crying and not hidden in the forest. margie, she is brave and strong and obviously she saved herself and even organized help for me. walk. my husband could have lost consciousness and not been able to open the window walk near, creaking. she could have stayed in the car will if it doesn't bear thinking about you ah, for a long time, alyssa didn't know what had happened to her father. nearly every mere food at 1st alissa couldn't stay asleep. she'd wake up in the night crying and asking for her daddy when she wanted to know why he wasn't with us all good. she wanted to go to him and have a cuddle. popping you too. when we went to school, she'd keep looking back to see if any one was following us,

nor thought you clueless. and i mean, you won't stay on newcomb if you're looking for a whole month. i couldn't tell her you won't go. i just couldn't bring myself to do it. on the gorilla, alyssa kept asking, why isn't daddy coming to germany for treatment as well? nagondo versus you. why don't we call him just to y'all? 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 to buy me in this. 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 lafon quantity kinda small. her mother told me that alyssa couldn't be on her own could and 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 to, etc. but it would come out gradually as, as it st. and she talk

a bit and then withdraw him as she couldn't stay in her room on her own gaiden. so she was displaying symptoms of anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder washer and good as talks. joseph coleman. fortunately, you live, golub speaks fluent russian, which is enough to communicate with alyssa. she grew up in russia and moved to germany 20 years ago. this is she opted for a short term therapy using a cuddly toy puppy. it's based on a met the 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 mob 2nd puppy sleeping at the moment to speculate, you know, they're mostly being wow, 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, the foot of viagra stems needs, and most of the bad dreams about a yell they're afraid he is boring, that they'll be shot at. it would require you sneak don't so they bark really loudly love. pick you up like repeat, dorsey mc they dream of being shot at. yes, and this is catchy bottles that you might like. and poppy also cry more than that. yes. of course. which morning. what makes them cry when they remember their old lives? they start to cry and run around the apartment. he appears to in his will to day

remember that people shot them to lead, oppressed and what else, alyssa? they always remember me so soon the that there were shot out than they died. you 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 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 cato. oh, then they're not afraid of me 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 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 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 to had switched pin. yes. but some of these children will start to display symptoms over time. in torment sign

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, and indeed kindle dupes, he 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 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 her, not me kinda to be handled, but we want to help them. and 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? commonly adam 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 c side. so 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 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 a dog, even the mammy 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 on 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 size reflection and the water. you will, you do so and he'd become a 12, and then he flew to warmer countries and made friends with other sponsor the end ah

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