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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 led a brutal war in which they both almost died in the war raging back home and ukraine as far away and yet always they're 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 luck with does orders jack, good day. you and even here, if we drive fast, i remember my last car drive with my daddy. here we go really fast, so the tank wouldn't hit us here in america, but 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 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 families on march 3rd, we were near keith. he hurting. we had actually decided that day to drive back home sim, you 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 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 hello, i stopped in front of the tank and the list was 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! reopened 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 getting such empty for 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 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 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 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 on both she not on you are through 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 worse compressed.

he's a dog and is called mop sick. w global stag english sugar doctors wanted to stick a needle in me. and you, you had heard so much a scream to finding it. so could you charge it through 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 help me out low. they also promised to bring much sick back to me. this is janet and only a google scholar. i knew not sick was just as injured as i was. we both had bullet wounds of you and then my senior, 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 address 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 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 it goes t for consecration. and then the 4th in the children have no

prior concept of the world, is then they will perceive it as a very dangerous and unsafe place. and given what, ha, oh my, i will think my own life is very unsafe and my face is uncertain. and as fast money then man kind of as children have had no dramatic experiences, they feel their invincible and somehow untouchable contest, but society is cut and him needs 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. c

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, you know, just received a 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. 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 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 on. 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. lesson missile on foot. kinda in the south from out the chef on the towns of boucher, a pin, and borrowed 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 buffalo when something explodes, that's war that godaddy now, but 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 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 has 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, dear chunky flat, all on her own from the city of sumi i me. 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. he does his grandma, she spent 4 or 5 days on the run all on her own. heading to levine on buses and trains. eyes is the shop bye to pay him for knowledge 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 distortion, wallace to someone miss beck soma equal. when i came to leave to our center, we took her in 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 green 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 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 had goals that they wanted to achieve, the but the way they wanted to go to university. they had dreams that a phone that he had. now they just have one dream was over a little bit said that all this would end iep or what of know 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 bother with?

because of children experienced no sense of joy or fun, long term that they can get stuck, and they can develop regressive or destructive behavior patterns that are then hard to get out of that the, in the more in that that can lead to psychosomatic illnesses. and even suicide would there could be all kinds of post traumatic stress disorders. so that's, that was and 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?

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, or host families dog. on the service she seems like a completely normal confident, happy child that has survived the war unscathed. no . no, no to and i have a very strong child on oakmore. another child might have stayed in the car crying and not hidden in the forest margin. she is brave and strong, and i was lost. she saved herself and even organized help for me. walk. 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. it doesn't bear thinking about you ah, for a long time,

alyssa didn't know what had happened to her father funeral every mere food at 1st elissa 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 at 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 look for a whole month, i couldn't tell her you must go. 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? not you're not gonna what's as 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, withdrawing to 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 who didn't at that point she was having a lot of difficulty sleeping in class laquanta. she kinda smell 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 dividends. and she basically had a constant need to talk about what she'd experienced, etc. and it would come out gradually as it st. and she talk a bit and then withdraw her 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. and glass 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. cuz if i shall tell me alissa how a mob 2nd puppy sleeping at the moment to speculate, you know, they're most saying, wow, they even snar let it happen. 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 cool. when they have a bad dream, they bark loudly to the whole night or snore, it really badly. thank you. oh, the front of the i stems needs and wants 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 show up like a beak. dorsey mc they dream of being shot at yes, and is it possible that you might like him? poppy also cry more. 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 do they remember? that people shot them to load? oppressed and what else, alyssa? they always remember early. sure. in the that there was shot at van they died. go live now than they was shot at and died like 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. greek and they shake all over and can't stop

shaking. still threaten police's good alyssa, what helps them when they're afraid? what can we do? what did i need to be comforted and given a cuddle? well then they're not afraid of me because you can 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, 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 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 in the kingdom dupes. he cared 300 some disorders where children and young people are waiting up to 8 months for a 1st appointment breakin and young. lincoln, 40 percent and beasts are one and we have very few resources that will have to stretch to treat even more children and kinda who as her nor me kinda to bandon. but we want to help them, which didn't. and i'll, so 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 among the 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 seaside. when everything was good, she often asks 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 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 mammy ducked and want to have anything to do with him because he was grey and b e aging sir. that so one night he ran far away, deep into the forest, while 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 him reflection and the water. yeah. you, you do still and he'd become as 12. and then he flew to warmer countries and made friends with other sponsor the end mm mm ah ah ah ah

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