At Porta Est Italia, the Fernetti pass, border with Slovenia
(ANSA) – TRIESTE, 27 FEB – After the first organized bus of Ukrainian refugees arrived early this morning, during the day others arrived, sporadically, at the eastern gate of Italy, the Fernetti (Trieste) border crossing with Slovenia. Less than ten buses during the day were entirely occupied by Ukrainians, but several others, for example with Romanian license plates, had single Ukrainian citizens, small families, mainly women with children on board.
In Fernetti they were all controlled by the police and, after a short stop for refreshment, they left, directed, from time to time, to various cities in Northern Italy, but also to Rome and Naples, where there is a large Ukrainian community. , perhaps the most conspicuous in Italy.
The stories are the desperate ones common to all Ukrainian citizens: the men have remained fighting, the women are bringing the children to safety by reuniting with relatives who have worked in Italy for some time or simply by reaching friends, acquaintances, to save themselves, before everything.
A group of women just before leaving sang a national song, between tears and emotion.
“Too dangerous to stay in Ukraine – says a woman speaking in a limping Italian, got off a bus that left Mykolaiv, which stopped in Odessa and headed for Naples – people go everywhere, Slovakia, Poland, we have come to Italy, after 12 hours on the border. When everything is fixed, let’s go back, we can stay out for 90 days, then we’ll see. “
A man, one of the few men present, says that with the first bombings he “immediately fled to Romania together with his wife and children. We haven’t even closed the house – he specifies, in Italian – we ran away, now let’s go to Genoa, where we ‘and my mother”. (HANDLE).