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War in Ukraine: Berlin regains, multiplies, the momentum of 2015 in favor of refugees

2022-03-04T20:19:41.291Z


REPORT - The German capital is mobilizing to welcome refugees, in the same spirit as seven years ago, during the Syrian war.


Correspondent in Berlin

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A little confused, Aliona wanders in the hallway of Berlin's central station, among the Ukrainian refugees disembarked from the train from Warsaw.

She ardently wishes to help them, without a specific plan in mind.

On the front of her black anorak, she stuck a sticker indicating that she speaks Russian.

It is the language of her country, which she intends to use for the benefit of the brotherly people fleeing the bombs.

I can drop people off somewhere, provide them with medical aid, accommodate them, I will help them all the way, and my children support me

,” explains this native of Saint Petersburg, who has lived in Berlin for fifteen years.

Her husband is a surgeon, and in professional life, she herself acts as a medical interpreter for the inhabitants of the former USSR consulting in German hospitals.

Thursday, February 24, this forties was visiting her father and grandmother, on the banks of the Neva, when the war began.

Three days later, became a member of a…

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Source: lefigaro

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