once little known border post. a bus to an emergency shelter, oversubscribed. an official loses control. there s a five year old waiting, he shouts, move back. svetlana had been waiting for a visa tojoin her husband in the uk. with the conflict spreading and her passport stuck at the british embassy in lviv, she s crossed into moldova without it. it is impossible to understand what has happened, she said. we re living in the 21st century. people are just hoping for the best and holding on to the end. katya also arrived today from odesa with her sister and three children, after they saw a ship destroyed in a huge explosion. translation: the kids - were asking, what s going on? and we said it was fireworks. what are you going to say to a kid? you can t tell them it s a war out there.
proceed quickly, done that within five days. i think they would have liked to have taken kyiv by nothi could have done and had a clear victory over ukraine. obviously, it has gone slower. the weather is against them, the people are against them, lack of fuel, logistics is against them, so they re keeping with this, this is where they will eventually go, a better way to go to the centre of the country, but it is critically odesa, and the focus on mould ova wanting tojoin critically odesa, and the focus on mould ova wanting to join the critically odesa, and the focus on mould ova wanting tojoin the eu, and russia is active in the that is the one thing we are expecting yet we have not seen. all forming a pretty intense picture. when we look at the way that russia is fighting at the moment, just explain to us what sort of hard artillery is being used here. we ve got there is
to the west. more than 100,000 people have fled to moldova, and our correspondent lucy williamson reports from the palanca border crossing point, about 30 miles from the ukrainian port city of odesa. when odesa flinches, palanca catches the blow. the fear in ukraine s southern city is reflected in the queues, the emotions spilling out at this once little known border post. a bus to an emergency shelter oversubscribed. an official loses control. there s a five year old waiting, he shouts, move back. svetlana had been waiting for a visa tojoin her husband in the uk. with the conflict spreading and her passport stuck at the british embassy in lviv, she s crossed into moldova without it. it is impossible to understand what has happened, she said. we re living in the 21st century.