A new refugee crisis has come to Europe
Ukrainians are pouring into Poland. But many are heading the other way, to fight
A TRAIN PACKED with hundreds of Ukrainians arrives in Przemysl, a city in eastern Poland, after several hours’ delay. Nearly all are women and children, many of them exhausted and crying. At Medyka, the nearby border crossing, the situation is even more desperate. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians, as well as foreigners escaping Ukraine, queue on the Ukrainian side in the cold. Many have left their cars behind in heavy traffic and continued on foot.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Exodus, again”
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