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Maine U.S. Rep Chellie Pingree: "Of the more than 300,000 refugees who have crossed Moldovas border, around 100,000 are still here...."

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Chellie Pingree tweeted the following:

"Of the more than 300,000 refugees who have crossed Moldovas border, around 100,000 are still here. Some have family or friends to stay with, but most went wherever someone had a couch or bed to offer."
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Here are other recent tweets from Chellie Pingree:

"I saw a food stand with homemade crocheted blankets draping the benches and was told local women from a very small village nearby had made them to help crossing Ukrainians feel at home."
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"I met three sistersvolunteering in the refugee campwho had been sent to live in Moldova while their parents stayed behind in Odessa. And it was heartbreaking to hear stories of elderly people not surviving the 35-mile walk from Odessa to the border crossing."
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"Our bipartisan congressional delegation was the first to visit Moldova since the war in neighboring Ukraine began.
Heres what we saw & heard today"
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