more often i m angry at the very fact that this war is happening. my son waited for his dad to come back from the war eight years ago. now my daughter has to wait. she held down the home front when her husband mchale served for more than a year in the ukrainian military. translator: he s a veteran of war. he s on the short list of reserves that goes in the first wave. mchale received a call from his old unit, she says, asking him to join immediately. she is pregnant with the couple s third child and was hoping she would weather this war with her husband. instead, he deployed the day after russia invaded and she moved her 9-year-old and 5-year-old out of her home to her sister s on the outskirts of the city where they are safer. how are the kids doing? how do they make sense of it? translator: my kids know the war is happening.
years ago it was them facing russia s troops in the breakaway region of trans mystery. the national more more memorial the moldovan president marked the anniversary of that conflict, while she said cannons sounded again nearby, across the border. the veterans who carry guns back then, laid flowers for theirfallen guns back then, laid flowers for their fallen comrades. their hearts turned toward the past, their minds on the present. mchale told me he d like to go and fight the russians again, but he is 67 now and too old. instead he is hosting nine refugees from ukraine. in the refugee centre, a p°p up ukraine. in the refugee centre, a pop up children s theatre replaces normal school. the lesson taught here, that worries and uncertainty are nothing to fear. a salve for the lessons of real life. lucy
translator: translator: yes, a coup is possible and has happened in russian history before. but at the moment, he is able to project a fairly positive picture to the russian population. when it becomes obvious he is losing, and this is if the west keeps up support for ukraine, if the west allows a no-fly zone in ukraine, this will save lives. if he starts looking like a loser, then a coup is possible. but based on the russian history and the experience of russian history we may yet have to wait a few years. mchale, thank you for your thoughts and time today. translator: good luck. and coming up, more on our