War in Ukraine, the flight continues: Poland and Moldova are at the limit. PHOTO

The flight of women, children and men continues from Ukraine: there are almost 40 thousand refugees entered Italy from the beginning of the conflict until today

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Today the foreign minister Luigi Di Maio goes to Romania and Moldova, two of Ukraine’s border countries that are hosting the largest number of refugees fleeing the war. In Moldova, the head of the Farnesina will have meetings with the President of the Republic, Maia Sandu, with the Prime Minister, Natalia Gavrilita, and with the Foreign Minister Nicolae Popescu and will sign a joint declaration together with Minister Popescu on collaboration in assisting refugees.

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There Moldova in fact it is approaching the “limit“of its capacity to accommodate refugees and may soon no longer have buildings to house them, or to keep them warm and safe, said Foreign Minister Popescu. About 100,000 refugees have arrived in Moldova, increasing the population by 4 %

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A Russian assault on Ukrainian Odessa, which is only 48 kilometers from Moldova, would trigger a huge influx of refugees and it would be a complete ” catastrophe for the situation humanitarian“, he added

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Also in Poland, where nearly 1.7 million refugees have been welcomed in two weeks, the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, has appealed to the UN and the EU to relocate the refugees. “We are at the limit“, the mayor of the Polish capital has already said for a few days, underlining how the share of refugees who arrived in Warsaw in just two weeks is equal to 10% of its population

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Also according to a survey carried out by SW Reseach for the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita, 74% of Poles said they were in favor of a refugee redistribution mechanism fleeing Ukraine between EU member states

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A great fear is related to a possible disappearance of thousands of children refugees on the run: one million minors arrived in Poland, Hungary and Romania. Of these, 200,000 come from reception institutions and many of these, almost half, are disabled

“One of the problems is just that identification of children: without control, they become victims of trafficking. It is a plague that occurs in all dramatic situations like this “, warns Ernesto Caffo, president Telephone Azzurro

In this regard it would seem that the Ukrainian government has issued a law decree that complicates the path for children who should reach Italy by imposing a check on the possibility of finding shelter for the little ones in a safe place

Meanwhile, the escape from tanks and bombs ended in tragedy for a group of Ukrainians who were aboard a coach directed to Pescara, which overturned yesterday morning in the A14 at Cesena. A 32-year-old mother who was traveling with them died; the victim’s two small children were also on board. Hi the other 21 people

Instead they arrived yesterday at La Morra, in the Cuneo area, Ukrainian children fleeing the war saved by a humanitarian mission of the Juventus: a journey of 2,800 kilometers, round trip, which made it possible to bring about 80 people to Italy, the vast majority of girls, boys and teens, together with some mothers. Some young people are part of the Ukrainian football schools, and have been recovered also thanks to the commitment of Alex Velykykh, originally from Donetsk, through the Ukrainian Football Federation