প্রকাশ: 27/02/2022
Refugees fleeing
Russia's invasion of Ukraine continued to pour across its western borders on
Saturday, with around 100,000 reaching Poland in two days, finding temporary
sanctuary in sports halls and train stations.
As Russian forces launched coordinated cruise missile and
artillery strikes on several cities, including the capital Kyiv, fearful
families thronged European Union borders hoping to enter Poland, Slovakia,
Romania and Hungary.
At the Hungarian border town of Beregsurany, 69-year-old
Ilona Varga crossed into the European Union on foot, leaving behind her home,
shop and hopes she might soon return.
"My kids are telling me to move over to Hungary for
good, and they are right," Varga said. "But it is so hard to leave
everything behind, I was born here, I grew up here, I have my work here,
everything ties me here."
In Poland, which has the region's largest Ukrainian
community of about 1 million people, a further 9,000 people had crossed the
border since 7 am on Saturday, Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker told
a news conference.
At Medyka in southern Poland, some 85 km (50 miles) from
Lviv in western Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainians waited for officials to
process them as refugees.
"I arrived today at 3 am and I am waiting for my
wife," Taras, 25, told Reuters on the Polish side of the crossing.
"She called me from the Ukrainian side and there is a 30 kilometre queue
of cars and people. She said she does not know when she will cross."
Czech railways sent special trains that arrived early on
Saturday at the Polish border carrying Ukrainians living in the Czech Republic
to meet family members who had escaped the war.
In the Slovak border town Ubla, officials put refugees in a
local gymnasium where foldout beds and air mattresses filled a basketball
court. Volunteers handed out sandwiches while young children giggled and played
with donated stuffed animals.
"We came to the border by taxi and we are going to
Prague to meet my husband, to safety," Miroslava Krackovska said at the
reception centre.
A woman gasped and wiped away tears as she saw news on her
mobile phone, passing the phone quickly to the woman next to her.
Two buses, carrying ethnic Bulgarians from Odessa arrived
early on Saturday in Bulgaria and a third one was on its way. Bulgaria has sent
another four buses to Kyiv to evacuate people from its 250,000 minority in
Ukraine.
A Ukrainian woman married to a Bulgarian described the
shelling in her town and another recounted her struggle to flee.
"For two days we sat on our luggage, hiding in the
bathrooms," Tanya Mitova, an ethnic Bulgarian, told national BNT channel
just after she arrived in the northeastern village of Durankulak, close to the
border with Romania.
"There was shelling, aeroplanes were flying over, it
was very scary."
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