many refugees flee to Moldova

Saturday, March 12, for several kilometers, cars leave Ukraine to head for a border country, Moldova. A mother wrote the word “child” on a piece of paper that she taped to her windshield. “I figured if the Russians saw this ‘kid’ message they wouldn’t kill us and they wouldn’t shoot my car“, she explains. The refugees flock to the border post, and wait in the cold.

Some children say they heard the bombs ringing in their town. A little girl arrived with her family from Odessa (Ukraine), a city still spared from the fighting. But for them, it’s only a matter of days, so they chose to leave. Near the border, Moldova has set up a camp with around a hundred tents. “Since the beginning of the war, already 300,000 Ukrainians have found refuge here in Moldova, but for the most part, the country is only a stage. Many intend to continue their journey elsewhere in Europe“, reports journalist Angélique Forget, in duplex from Palanca, on the border between Ukraine and Moldova.