“I never thought that I would stand on the Moldovan border and it would feel like I was in Syria after the bombing of Aleppo,” Tatiana Kebak, a refugee coordinator, says.
During the first ten days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe, opened its border to 250,000 Ukrainian refugees.
As of 9 March, 100,000 remain in the country, equivalent to around 4% of the population of Moldova. It is already almost impossible to rent housing in the country, which borders both Ukraine and Romania. All refugee camps that were quickly established by the state are now more than 75% full.
