or, there s children in the basement . you don t know who s alive and who isn t. and there s people on the street just dead people on the street. finally, they got a phone call. it was their mum and dad. they re alive, and forced to accept that it s time to leave bucha. theyjoin hundreds of people trying to leave the suburbs of kyiv. a pause in intense fighting has been agreed. explosion. ..but it s still not safe. travelling through this border region, we find every hotel and every guest house full of people who ve left ukraine, and some who are heading in the other direction. in the town of gura humorului, i meet denys. he s from mykolaiv and,
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that he kept in check. now on bbc news, stephanie hegarty finds relief and heartbreak in equal measure at ukraine s border as families start to come to terms with their new lives as refugees. air raid siren wails. explosion. woman screams. it s been a relentless assault on ordinary lives. this is the neighbour, or whatever it was. since the start of the war have been killed. ..and millions have been forced
this morning, he woke up to hear that this had happened. explosions. just yesterday night, my city was under attack. my family, my wife, and i have two daughters 15 years old and ten years old. 0k. ..so they re waiting for me. woman screams. it s mid march, and russian forces are pushing along the south coast of ukraine. they want to capture the port city of odesa, on the black sea, and mykolaiv stands in the way. denys was working as an engineer in the netherlands when the war started. he wants to drive this van over the border to deliver supplies and to rescue his family. what are you bringing? oil, food, medicine, er,
what s the latest with your wife and children? i m waiting, they have to cross the border to moldova, now. i ll go. 0k. good luck. thank you. bye bye. can t imagine what must be going through his head right now. minutes after he crosses into ukraine, a message comes through from denys. i m home, he says.