'Unimaginable tragedy': Ukrainians find refuge in Poland


By AGENCY

Refugees from Africa, Middle East and India, mostly students of Ukrainian universities, at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. Photo: AFP

Moved to tears by the plight of the Ukrainian people, Polish volunteer Katarzyna Jasinska was offering a warm children's jacket to a refugee who had just crossed into Poland's eastern border village of Medyka.

"Some have arrived without anything at all or with just a handbag. As they fled, they didn't have time to bring a thing," said the veterinary technician who left her home in Tychy, southern Poland to offer a helping hand.

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