So this is the final morning in Chernivtsi what beautiful sunshine
to remember this beautiful historic city and after two years of being in Ukraine unfortunately
it's time to leave not how I would have planned it having to head to the border with this invasion
fortunately it hasn't affected the city so far so I'll remain optimistic one day in the future
I'm going to come back here and enjoy it in the same way that I have before so yeah до побачення Україна!
This is just taking this crazy back road way around all the traffic
because there are obviously thousands and thousands of people there's like about
eight kilometers of traffic of people queuing with cars since we're gonna go up since we're gonna go
across by on foot you can get away with doing this our taxi driver isn't gonna be a lot across anyways
because yeah men of military age can cross the border now I can see a lot of people waiting
on foot so yeah I'm not sure how many long it will take but already saved us a good bit
of time пошли поехали
So you can see behind me the pedestrian border here to Romania
and yeah it's with a heavy heart
to look out at Ukraine and just all the images I'm seeing on social media
It's 2022 it's not 1939. Although one man in the Kremlin wants it to feel that way since yeah
since Ukraine didn't want to be part of his sphere of influence since he couldn't persuade them
with a carrot he decided to use the stick resort to violence and invasion full invasion
you know today is I think the 25th so it's day two of the full invasion of Ukraine it's already you
know from the north with Belarus coming through Belarus the south coming from Crimea from the east
from Donbas and Russia and yeah just my heart goes out to everybody who's suffering here I have
friends who are filming cowering hearing fighting gun gunfire outside their houses and what not
outside their houses and inside apartment blocks covering the metro in Kyiv it's absolutely
scandalous yeah just this is the beginning now of a big refugee crisis it looks like and we've got a
I don't know there's just a few people 100 people here but actually you get all the
the cars backed up for about eight kilometers on the Romanian border this is one that's
going to be one of the easiest to get across because not so many people know
about Chernivtsi as a route out most people went to Poland who tried to flee
and they're supposed to be 40 kilometers here was about eight to get across so
yeah it's hard to put words you can't find the way to describe it it's just like
so much emotion and it's just so scandalous you know that we haven't moved on right just
realpolitik and small nations or weaker nations do they have a future unless they're in some big
you know some big pact security pact it doesn't seem so it seems like
you're going to be weak you're going to have to have alliances like this in the future
yeah but on the human toll it's just really really sad to see
and yeah my heart goes out to everybody in Ukraine who's you know I've shared so much with
in the last 10 years and seeing friends and just the images just crazy
Even though I could have I kind of feel that this was going to happen it's just different when you
see it like in Donbas and yeah it started with the annexation of Crimea so we're 25th I hope Ukraine
can put enough resistance for as long as possible it seems like there's an attempt at a coup d'état
taking out the government in Kyiv since what they're focusing on having attacked a lot
of the south infrastructure in particular but that you know Odesa for the moment seems
reasonably quiet fortunately but yeah the focus is on taking out the democratically elected president
of Ukraine who won with 75% of the vote who actually implements his mandate unlike the previous
president who ran ran from this country well he's two presidents ago three presidents ago
Yanukovych and he tried to do the opposite of what he got elected to I was gonna say it's time to cross
the border and leave Ukraine after two years yeah it's shocking so optimistic about Ukraine and its
future and just seeing it pummeled like this yeah it's heartbreaking but anyways on a human level
stay safe everybody there's gonna be millions of people come across these borders in the
next few days right I fear and it's just a scandalous human tragedy that we haven't
seen in Europe definitely since early 90s where the breakup was the former Yugoslavia
Oh after such a long ordeal we were at the border for like seven hours we are
in Romania it was pretty much miraculous to get out
because they were not letting anyone go on foot because we're here with all our luggage and stuff
anyone to go on foot it was not a woman with a small child
and eventually we paid to get on a bus at the border to get driven across it took like seven
and a half hours but it's great to be out the situation seem pretty desperate thousands and
thousands of people at the border no accommodation on this side or in Ukraine left in the region
Yeah it's so fucking sad the reasons why we have to leave and I hope just hope that Putin fails
in his attempts to destroy and subdue subjugate Ukraine
strength just had an American friend leave me a message saying that he's considering signing
up tomorrow to defend the city of Kyiv which is now his home so respect Слава Україна!
We're on the train straight off getting the bus to Suceava and yeah
got our train ticket straight away and last stop is gonna be Bucharest and this crazy exit
from Ukraine exhausting exhausting now we're gonna get in at what time I have to I got to practice my
Romanian a little bit buying a ticket for the first time in two years 5:30 in the morning
I contacted a guy who I used to rent apartments from in Bucharest and yeah he told me there's an
apartment there when we get there from us so we're going to get a little bit of sleep and
wow when we got here there's some volunteers to help Ukrainians who we're fleeing this
outrageous violation of international law that is Putin's war against Ukraine and his attempts to
subdue its people yeah such an emotional and crazy day and we're the lucky ones
we're able to get out so you know even it was not so easy but at least we're
we're in a safer place than a lot of people are tonight so let's get a little bit of sleep
on this train maybe I don't know if we're going to sleep we'll see when we get the Bucharest
and yeah then I'll start working on some more video content
with the war we weren't able to get a sim card so it's kind of odd to be out of connectivity for
a few hours but yeah that's the situation so next stop Bucharest capital of Romania
It's almost 6:00 am in the morning Bucharest got it train station you know I haven't been here
for three years and I had kind of fallen out of love with Bucharest last time I was here but boy am I
happy to see this city yeah Bucharest came all the way down from Suceava by the trip by train
thank you to everybody in Romania who's helped us since we got here mulțumesc frumos
there were two security guys who took us from the where the bus stopped at the filling station
and drove his train station didn't even want any money for it so yeah really sad situation
and terrible circumstances to have to leave Ukraine Free Ukraine and now it's time to go to
an apartment that a friend of mine has set up for me so almost the end of the journey yeah o seară bună!