🇺🇦🇵🇱 Ukrainian refugees have been arriving at the Polish border city of Przemyśl carrying light luggage but a heavy burden.
Stepping down onto Polish soil means safety for them but also sadness for their lives left behind.
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Stepping down onto Polish soil means safety for them but also sadness for their lives left behind.
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🇵🇱 Many families have been split up: mainly women and children are arriving in Poland; the men have stayed home to fight.
They bear the emotional scars of seeing war come to the neighbourhoods and are quick to warn the rest of the world about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
They bear the emotional scars of seeing war come to the neighbourhoods and are quick to warn the rest of the world about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
🗣 "I want to say, so that the whole world, will know: Putin is the aggressor," said Liuba, a refugee from Kyiv.
"Innocent people are dying. Tanks are shooting everywhere. A young girl, 18 yrs old is standing there with a machine gun. It’s horrible."
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"Innocent people are dying. Tanks are shooting everywhere. A young girl, 18 yrs old is standing there with a machine gun. It’s horrible."
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🗣 "Tomorrow [Putin] will be in Europe. Stop him. He will come to Europe. He can’t stop himself. We have to stop him. Help. People are dying."
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Alina Kosinska is a dentist from Zaporizhzhia, home to Europe's biggest nuclear plant, which was reportedly shelled by Russian forces.
"I’m very scared about my home, and I hope that Europe and the whole world would help and stop this," she said.
"I’m very scared about my home, and I hope that Europe and the whole world would help and stop this," she said.
🗣 “I lost my home, I lost my normal life, I had a job there, and now I had to run away from my country because some crazy person wants... I don’t know what he wants.”
“Really no one expected this, it all happened so fast," said Veronika Kilchitzka, 20, from Kyiv.
"Personally, I still can’t believe it. The whole world is talking about it. It’s scary to think that something like this can happen in the 21st century."
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"Personally, I still can’t believe it. The whole world is talking about it. It’s scary to think that something like this can happen in the 21st century."
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Tanya Andreeva, a chef from Kyiv, fled to Poland with her seven-year-old son.
“We couldn’t take anything with us, it was too quick," she said. "There were bombs exploding ... My child was very scared. We just threw some stuff in the suitcase and left”.
“We couldn’t take anything with us, it was too quick," she said. "There were bombs exploding ... My child was very scared. We just threw some stuff in the suitcase and left”.
🗣 “I want to get my son a jacket and trousers because he was running around near the bus and got dirty and he doesn’t have any other clothes," Andreeva said.
"So I’m looking to see what they have here. I have to get him changed.”
"So I’m looking to see what they have here. I have to get him changed.”
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