Europe | The mental scars of war

Ukrainian refugees need mental-health care that their hosts lack

The EU is trying to help

Safe only physically
|WARSAW

YULIA MALINOVSKA looks from a window in a Warsaw office building where 400 Ukrainian women and children are being put up. As a plane crosses the sky she huddles over her eight-month-old daughter. Her eyes, fixed on the distance, turn to tears. “Every plane scares me now,” she sobs. She is safe, after escaping from a district of Kyiv that was hit by Russian planes, but her mind is still in turmoil. “The moment you accept your own death, something in you changes.”

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The wreckage within”

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