Ukrainians in Poland: 'The refugees are coming and coming and coming'

CGTN Europe

According to the #UN roughly 6.5 million #Ukrainians are currently registered as refugees.  Many of them currently reside in Poland and CGTN Europe’s Aljosa Milenkovic explores what life is like for them.

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00:00 Seemingly endless stream of people arriving from Ukraine on foot over this border crossing.

00:05 They are mostly women and children, but there are also men.

00:10 Most of them have no intention of going back to Ukraine until the bloodshed is over.

00:16 There are three refugee centers in the Polish city of Przemysl.

00:21 Behind these doors is one of them.

00:23 It is located in a former warehouse right under a working restaurant.

00:29 Between 30 and 40 refugees from Ukraine are here at this moment.

00:35 This center is run by the Hope Foundation, providing a first shelter for those who have

00:40 left their lives in their home country behind.

00:44 Like Natalia from the Ukrainian region of Sumy.

00:47 Her husband and brother died on the front line and she managed to flee with one child.

00:53 Now she is waiting for her other child to join them so they can try to continue their

00:57 lives elsewhere.

01:02 The refugees are coming in large numbers and we are very grateful to Poland for accepting

01:07 us.

01:08 I have read on the internet and seen videos that say it is safe to be in Ukraine.

01:12 I know that is not true and on the contrary, the very bad situation there is getting worse.

01:18 And this is Marina and she is another refugee.

01:22 She came from the Lugansk region together with her 17-year-old son.

01:26 She says she left in order to protect him.

01:34 We contacted the Rubika's NGO with a plea to help us leave the country.

01:38 They met us in the Ukrainian town of Lviv and they brought us here.

01:42 After they will take us from Przemysl to Berlin and from Berlin to Freiburg.

01:48 Other NGOs in Przemysl also say the number of refugees from Ukraine is increasing.

01:54 There are two or three days of relative calm and after those more refugees arrive, people

02:02 who simply need our help.

02:04 Because of what is happening in Ukraine, people simply feel worried that something more serious

02:08 can happen to those close to them.

02:11 Anxiety, uncertainty and a sense of desperation are visible on the people's faces here.

02:18 With clashes intensifying in the Donbas region and more frequent attacks across Ukraine,

02:22 it is likely that soon there will be more faces like this in the town of Przemysl.

02:29 Aljosha Milenkovic, CGTN, at the Polish-Ukrainian border.

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