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Newscast, listen on BBC Science. Hello. Hi, I'm in Moldova now. Was that a really quick decision?

Just after I spoke to you, I went downstairs and in the dining room my friends were like sitting and listening to the news and

understanding that was rapidly coming towards us so at the moment I am just on the border of Ukraine and I'm heading towards nowhere. Heading into the unknown is Dasha Malachova who until a week ago was a television cook,

actor and food activist from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Now she's fleeing from the Russian invasion.

As we talk and as you were here, the mobile signal comes and goes.

Yesterday we had six times we had sirens in in the village where we live and after sitting in the wine cellar for a day with kids, with dogs.

In the evening I just said to the husband

that maybe we could have some wine in wine cellar finally because we never drunk wine in a wine cellar and we all had a laugh about that with friends but yet the problem is that you know the anger towards us and it's kind something that you could not cope with

because you don't know the strategy because this strategy is just to kill you know so.

Do you have any insights from people you've been speaking to in different parts of Ukraine about,

are they able to get food?

I have a lot of group, volunteer groups and at the moment there is a basis just in

outskirts of Kyiv where people haven't had any food for days since they couldn't move out of the warming, you know, and they constantly

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