it is our duty as moldovans, because the heroes, the ukrainian heroes that are now fighting off the russian armies, they are also our heroes, they are also moldovan heroes because they are also protecting us and our families. reporter: here, we also met yuliya. she fled mykolaiv, ukraine, too. how close did the bombings get to you? through tears, yuliya tells me how the bomb hit her house, but they escaped to the basement. they were lucky. this is what the house looked like after being hit. yuliya s daughter is here with her, but her husband stayed behind to fight. she tells me she s anxious being so close to transnistria here, the breakaway territory where about 1,500 troops remain. we saw just how close they are to transnistria. that over there, that s
that commentators like me have always had is that we re not inside putin s mind and we don t really know what his end state that he s aiming for actually is. i suspect that the consensus is that he s now going to concentrate and trying to annex the donbas area and then, if he feels that he has sufficient combat power and political will, he might try and head towards moldova, to, you know, sort of quote liberate transnistria. i don t think they have the combat power or the resources to do both of those. so, i think it s donbas for the moment and see what happens. yeah, i mean, of course, the fear is, as many have been saying, that as he takes, he could use the may 9th as a propaganda value to mobilize forces, i think that is the biggest fear, isn t it so far?
ukraine. and that there, that s transnistria, and the rest is ukraine. you realize how close the war is to us. reporter: corinne helped coordinate the winery s refugee effort. in the first week here in the restaurant, we made a real bedroom, a large one. they were sleeping here. reporter: they were sleeping in this room? yes, yes. because the whole hotel was full. so, this is a guestbook that we usually have for our guests. reporter: this guestbook now filled with messages of thanks from ukrainian refugees. you see a lot of the blue and the yellow, the colors of the ukrainian flag, and, of course, they are messages of peace and of thanking the moldovan people for helping them. reporter: and this one here means no to war.