Refugee Assistance From One Of Europe's Poorest Countries
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🗓️ 9 April 2022
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Summary
Even as they open their doors to Ukrainian refugees, many in the small country fear they may be next in line for invasion by Russian forces. Moldova declared independence from the Soviet Union shortly after its fall in 1991, but since then there have been Russian troops stationed in a separatist region of the country called Transnistria. Moldova fears it would not be able to fend off a Russian offensive.
NPR's Frank Langfitt explains why Moldova is in such a perilous position, and we talk to aid workers about how they are supporting Ukranians fleeing war.
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| 0:00.0 | Two young boys had started a soccer match on a fenced-in playing field when they picked |
| 0:08.7 | up some unexpected teammates. |
| 0:13.8 | It was a field staff member for the U.S. Agency for International Development, along |
| 0:17.8 | with the executive director of the organization running the campus where the boys are living |
| 0:22.0 | for now. |
| 0:23.2 | The complex used to be a conference center and hostile in Kishin out, the Republic of |
| 0:27.5 | Moldova's capital city. |
| 0:32.1 | I read out Rijik is one of them. |
| 0:35.1 | She made her way here from Kharkiv with her two daughters, H3 and a half and 12. |
| 0:39.7 | What was your experience getting here? |
| 0:41.3 | How did you get here? |
| 0:43.3 | I read out to her that she spent more than a week in the basement as her city was attacked |
| 0:48.8 | by Russian missiles. |
| 0:50.4 | When her apartment was hit, a neighbor offered her and her daughters arrived to Moldova along |
| 0:54.6 | with his family. |
| 0:55.6 | So she took it and ended up at Karitas Moldova. |
| 0:59.0 | The NGO is providing refugees more than a place to stay. |
| 1:03.0 | Here's Edward Lukash again. |
| 1:04.6 | Food, psycho-emotional support, medical support. |
| 1:09.1 | We're referring them, for example, to authorities if they need some legal documents, organizing |
| 1:15.1 | them some transport for the U.S. countries. |
| 1:18.3 | Moldova isn't a member of the EU with all the economic advantages that can bring. |
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