University student Vlada Yushchenko was still in her teens and nearly three months pregnant when she hugged her husband at the border, turned away and walked into Moldova. The young family's forced separation is an all-too-common story among the estimated 110,000 Ukrainian refugees in Romania -- nearly all of them women and children.
University student Vlada Yushchenko was still in her teens and nearly three months pregnant when she hugged her husband at the border, turned away and walked into Moldova.
"For a long time we couldn't let each other go," said Yushchenko, 19, recalling the couple's separation at the border. "We really didn't want this, but at the same time we understood that we have to do this for mine and the baby's health and to be safe." Still, seeing footage of the war play out in Ukraine, and knowing her husband is there, only adds to her worries.
Since the war started, more than eight million Ukrainians have fled to other European countries, in the greatest exodus of refugees the continent has seen since World War II.
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