Elena Yurchuk saw the hospital she worked in reduced to rubble during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
An aerial view of refugees queuing for transport at the border crossing at Medyka, Poland, Sunday March 13, 2022, where the main flow of Ukrainian refugees cross into Poland. The U.N. refugee agency says more than 2.5 million people, including more than a million children, have already fled Ukraine. It has become an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Europe and the fastest refugee exodus since World War II.
While the number of people arriving in neighboring countries from Ukraine appears to have eased in the past week, the refugees' harrowing accounts of destruction and death are evidence of the continued suffering of civilians in Ukrainian cities besieged by Russian forces.At the train station in Przemysl, Poland, refugees described traveling in packed trains and “people sleeping on each other” during their journeys to safety.
“We had to travel by ourselves," he said."It was very crowded, lots of people sleeping on each other. In the cabin for six people there were eight to 10 people inside. It was just very hard.”“I had no connection with them," she said."I was worried, but I was here with others who were waiting.”
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