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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 to leave their homes, saying goodbye to everything they know. they re from kyiv? yeah, it s all the stuff they brought with them. i m travelling to northern romania, to the small border town of siret, where relief and heartbreak come in waves. hey! ..to meet the ukrainian families separated by this war. itjust dawned on me that the possibility of me losing her, it s non zero, it s possible. ..and to find out how they re coming to terms with their new lives as refugees. they re here, they re waiting. kettle whistles. this is the video of the street parallel to my paren ....
..and millions have been forced to leave their homes, saying goodbye to everything they know. they re from kyiv? yeah, it s all the stuff they brought with them. i m travelling to northern romania, to the small border town of siret, where relief and heartbreak come in waves. hey! ..to meet the ukrainian families separated by this war. itjust dawned on me that the possibility of me losing her, it s not zero, it s possible. ..and to find out how they re coming to terms with their new lives as refugees. they re here, they re waiting. kettle whistles this is the video of the street parallel to my parents . just a few weeks ago, galya was an estate agent, but she s just escaped ukraine with her daughters. lesia, hersister, came from london to meet them, and they re all staying in the small flat that they re renting, close to the border in romania. but their mum and dad stayed behind in their hometown, bucha. what was it like, looking at all this news coming in of your hometo ....
when russia invaded ukraine, people flocked to social media to see for themselves what was happening, and support poured in from across the globe. scammers seized new opportunities to profit by making and sharing fake videos, spreading lies and stealing identities. i ve seen thousands of dollars in bitcoin donated into fraudulent wallets. this particular wallet has a total balance of over 90,000 us dollars. money that would have gone to charities, instead stolen by criminals. they were soliciting several of my followers for money. as russian tanks rolled into ukraine, president zelensky vowed to stay and fight. for that, ukraine needed resources, and so his government put out a plea for donations. with the war affecting national infrastructure, zelensky signed a law to make cryptocurrencies legal in ukraine. it s one of the few countries to do so. so far, ukraine says it s raised more than $70 million for the war effort in cryptocurrency alone. but shortly after, cybers ....
hello and welcome to the programme. russia has threatened to intensify attacks on the ukrainian capital kyiv if its territory is targeted further. tensions have risen since the russian naval vessel moskva sank on thursday. it was the flagship of the russian naval fleet in the black sea. moscow claims the sinking was caused by a fire but ukraine insists it hit the vessel with missiles. a weapons factory near kyiv has already been partially destroyed in a russian attack. our correspondent yogita limaye reports from the ukrainian capital. this was the moskva, russia s prized warship in the black sea. it s now sunk. ukraine says its missiles hit the vessel. russia says a fire caused the ship to sink. it s a humiliating loss for the country and one of the biggest such incidents since world war ii. in what is being seen as retaliation, russia s defence ministry shared this video, saying it had launched an attack on a military facility outside ukraine s capital. the russian ro ....
russia has threatened to intensify attacks on the ukrainian capital kyiv if its territory is targeted further. tensions have risen since the russian naval vessel, moskva, sank on thursday. it was the flagship of the russian naval fleet in the black sea. moscow claims the sinking was caused by a fire, but ukraine insists it hit the vessel with missiles. a weapons factory near kyiv has already been partially destroyed in a russian attack. our correspondent yogita limaye reports from the ukrainian capital. this was the moskva, russia s prized warship in the black sea. it s now sunk. ukraine says its missiles hit the vessel. russia says a fire caused the ship to sink. it s a humiliating loss for the country and one of the biggest such incidents since world war ii. in what is being seen as retaliation, russia s defence ministry shared this video, saying it had launched an attack on a military facility outside ukraine s capital. the russian rocket hit the target a missile factory ....