This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchler.

New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

We go immediately to a story, Buenos Aires.

Thousands of pregnant Russian women and their partners have been migrating to Argentina

since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.

This is a story most recently in the New York Times.

These migrants are inspired by the hope of building new lives, far from Putin's autocratic, isolated nation.

The chance to begin a new over 8,000 miles away from Russia has led more than 22,000, mostly middle and upper class Russians,

to make the journey to the capital city since January 22.

Professor, a very good evening to you.

Beg pardon, this opening reminded me once upon a time I was a novelist.

There is no better beginning for a building's romance than have mom arrive pregnant in Buenos Aires in the midst of a war back in Ukraine.

Dad, we don't know. Granddad, we don't know.

25 years later, we begin to tell the story.

What is your measure of Argentina welcoming these young people?

I think it's very smart. Does this create problems in Buenos Aires? Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John.

This is a story full of ironies and it tells a lot about both the Argentine past and Argentina's relationship under the current parent discovery as well with Russia.

As you know, Argentina going back to the beginning of the last century, not unlike the United States, has always been a nation of immigrants, especially European immigrants.

Much of the Argentine tapestry today with Italian and German and people that came from other places just really shaped Buenos Aires.

And so Argentina, not unlike the United States, has stayed with that tradition of being relatively open to immigration.

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