Moldova welcomes fleeing Ukrainians - in pictures
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Refugees crossing into Moldova from southern Ukraine. All photos: Erin Clare Brown / The National -
Tatiana and her son wait for a van to drive from the Moldovan border towards Chisinau. -
Angelina, 3, and Arina, 5, crossed the border to safety in Moldova with their mother. -
Natasha, 25, waits on the Moldovan side of the border to ensure her boyfriend, who is French, is allowed to cross. -
Mothers with their children at the Palanca border crossing into Moldova. -
Refugees crossing the Moldovan border are taken to transit points for onward journeys to Chisinau or points further west in Europe. -
Refugees board buses towards Chisinau after crossing into Moldova. -
Officers from the Moldovan Ministry of the Interior prepare meals for those at the Palanca refugee camp. -
Each night the Palanca refugee camp feeds up to 300 people who arrive with no onward plans when they reach Moldova. -
Lena, who had never left Ukraine before fleeing into Moldova, feeds three-year-old Dasha at a rest point for refugees just over the border. -
Immigration officers set up the Palanca refugee camp in just seven hours after the war started on February 24. -
About 220,000 people have already fled Ukraine across its frontier with Moldova. -
Many families put signs in their rear windscreens reading 'CHILDREN' to protect themselves from attack. -
Inside a tent set up to receive refugees in Moldova. -
Nadia and Ivan on their way to the border. -
The Moldexpo centre, which served as Moldova's Covid-19 hospital, was transformed into a refugee center in six hours on the first day of the war.
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