PALANCA, MOLDOVA – The lead-grey skies suited the grim events on the ground as thousands of Ukrainian refugees streamed across Palanca, a sleepy border outpost in Moldova, as Russian forces stepped up attacks in southern Ukraine on Thursday. Heavy snow followed by freezing rain added to the refugees’ misery as they pushed down a narrow,…
“I don’t believe what I’m seeing,” says Benny Hadad, director of Aliyah and absorption for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. “I was in this place a month ago on a routine visit from Odessa to Chisinau. Everything was pastoral and quiet, and suddenly it looks like a world war.”