The huge queue that separates life and death: documentation from the escape journey from Ukraine
For long hours Marina and her children stand in a long line of cars at the border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova.
Towards evening the alarms also got there, and Marina recounted how the confused and frightened crowd, too, ran around in search of shelter.
"The only place you can hide is in the church, others fled to the river"
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25/02/2022
Friday, 25 February 2022, 19:01 Updated: 21:26
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In the video: Marina Britbin waiting on the Ukraine-Moldova border (Photo: Marina Britbin)
As fighting continues across Ukraine, many civilians continue to flock toward the borders with neighboring countries, hoping to save themselves and their families from the terror of Russian military shelling.
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She continued to follow one of them, Marina Britbin, an Israeli who had fled the city of Kharkiv with her children, and decided to reach the Moldovan border.
Since arriving at the morning border, she has been waiting there in long lines of cars, while the alarms even got there and sowed further panic.
Marina arrived with her children on the Ukraine-Moldova border in the morning, after hours of long drive in the dark from Kharkov in the east of the country.
Around five o'clock in the afternoon, while waiting with her children in line, alarms began to sound.
She told how many people were stressed and wanted to take shelter.
"The only place you can hide is the church, some just ran closer to the river," she said.
About an hour later, when the sun had already set, she said they were approaching the border crossing.
"We're getting closer," she said with some relief.
She said that people who reach the border crossing also arrive on foot, and not just by cars.
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There are queues for hours at the border crossing.
Marina (Photo: official website, courtesy of the photographer)
She continues to ask for help from the Israeli embassy in Ukraine, which will help rescue her Ukrainian partner, who cannot leave the country due to the president's directive not to allow men under the age of 60 to leave its borders.
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