Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused widespread human suffering and untold physical damage. It has also created the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War.
On assignment for The Globe & Mail.
This is ongoing.
OVER THE BORDER
On assignment for The Globe & Mail.
This is ongoing.
A sign that says “children” in Ukrainian on the back of a car driven by Tanya Salo. She left the family’s home in Kharkiv, Ukraine and drove for five days to the Polish border with her husband, three children – Fedir, 4 ( in the picture ), Mykhailo, 8, Kamila, 12 - and pet dog, Ozipa, and cat, Sarah. She had to say goodbye to her husband at the border and carry on to Gdańsk, Poland.
9.03.2022 Rest stop Budy Łancuckie, Poland.
Piotr Kuszka, the parish priest in Archdiocese of Przemysl – Warsaw of the Greek Catholic Church in Poland. The priest and his parish are helping migrants from Ukraine. The help is spiritual, psychological, financial, if someone is uninsured and needs an operation, the priest announces a collection of money among the parishioners. In the corridor of the church, there is also a bulletin board with jobs, rooms for rent, which is often the first point of call for Ukrainian migrants. But the parish is not prepared to receive more Ukrainians, in case of war.
15.02.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
Anna Grad-Mizgala local humanitarian aid activist, watches newscasts about the Russian bombardment on Thursday with the caption "Putin started the war" and says she feels stressed and that the city isn’t prepared.
24.02.2022, Przemysl, Poland
The refugee shelter in Mlyny is among the largest in Poland and on Saturday it was housing around 3,000 people and beginning to show the strain.
5.03.2022 Mlyny, Poland
Jaroslav Negrebecki, 63, and his granddaughter Sofia,12 in a shelter in Radymno. Jaroslav prepares to head back to Yavoriv in Ukraine where his wive has been left.
7.03.2022 Radymno, Poland.
Woman from Ukraine on the phone in a welcome centre set up in the Przemysl train station Thursday night.
24.02.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
Western Railway Station in Warsaw where there are many refugees from Ukraine.
20.04.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
20.04.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
A vacant shopping mall of Przemysl has been converted into one of the largest refugee centre in eastern Poland.
08.03.2022 Przemysl, Poland
08.03.2022 Przemysl, Poland
Vika Lukianets ( left ) has taken in a flat in Warsaw owned by Njavwa Nondo ( right ). Ms. Nondo doesn’t speak Ukrainian and Ms. Lukianets doesn’t speak English, so they communicate by Google translate. Even showing Ms. Lukianets the access code to the flat takes forever as the two women struggle to communicate.
15.03.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
Zinaida Polosina ( left ) and her 10-year old granddaughter Sonia Frolova with newlyweds Oliver and Sofia Hawes, all Ukrainian now sharing a flat in Warsaw and trying to figure out how, and where, to rebuild their lives.
15.03.2022 Warsaw Poland.
A former hostel in Radymno, Poland, has been set up as a shelter for Ukrainian but the owner of the building may close it because donors are struggling to cover the rent.
7.03.2022 Radymno, Poland.
The refugee shelter in Mlyny is among the largest in Poland and on Saturday it was housing around 3,000 people and beginning to show the strain.
03.08.2022 Młyny, Poland
03.08.2022 Młyny, Poland
Eliza Savicheva,18, made bunch Molotov cocktails before she left Ukraine.
She stands in a corridor of a former hostel that has been turned into a shelter in Radymno, Poland
7.03.2022 Radymno, Poland.
Daryona Solodka arrived at Przemysl’s School No. 5 from Kyiv on Tuesday with her mother, brother and cat “Ostap Bender”
1.03.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
A shopping mall in Przemysl is being turned into a Ukrainian refugee reception centre, but many people have already started camping out in the corridors.
3.03.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
The Expo Hall is one of the largest shelters for Refugees from Ukraine.in Warsaw.
21.04.2022, Warsaw Poland
21.04.2022, Warsaw Poland
From left to right; Ivan hugs his brother Voloymyr Telehii as they set off for Ukraine to join the battle against the Russians.
25.02.2022 Medyka, Poland.
Jemeal Jabateh ( in the middle ), a 28-year old student from Liberia fled Kyiv. He struggled with how badly he was treated and said he couldn’t understand “the violence” of Ukrainian border guards. He can’t accept that he and his „non European” friends were often treated far differently when they tried to leave the war. Many were held up at the border for days so that Ukrainians could pass through first, and some were beaten when they complained.
27.02.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
Natasha heads back crying to Ukraine to care for her young children, ages 12 and 14.
25.02.2022 Medyka, Poland.
Andrii Tsebenko and his pregnant wife, Olena, arrived at the Hotel Marko in Przemysl, Poland, from Lviv with just days to go before the baby is due.
26.02. 2022 Przemysl, Poland
Olena and Andreii Tsebenko hold Vira, who was born last week in Przemysl, Poland. “When Vira grows up we will tell her all the stories of how she was born,” said Ms. Tsebenko. For Ukrainian couple, baby's name Vira is a hope, faith and charity.
24.03.2022 Przemysl, Poland
Worshippers gather in a garden for the start of a 7 a.m. Easter Sunday mass at the Blessed Virgin Mary church in Warsaw, Poland
A priests sprinkles holy water on worshippers who lined the sidewalk outside the Blessed Virgin Mary church in Warsaw on Easter Sunday. Warsaw, Poland
Mark Rakitskaya, 13, Mikhail Dmitrievy, 15, and Dasza, enjoying an Easter lunch at the HumanDoc Relief House in Warsaw which provides shelter and counselling to families from Mariupol.
24.4.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
24.4.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
Alla Nesteruk and her son Arsinij, 4, came to Duszniki-Zdrój in southern Poland with her sister-in-law and son.
04.07.2022 Duszniki Zdroj, Poland
04.07.2022 Duszniki Zdroj, Poland
Aleksandra Kuchukova plays the saxophone on a street in downtown Warsaw. Ms. Kuchukova , 22, fled from Lutsk in north western Ukraine on Thursday and she’s now trying to raise money to bring her 10-years old brother, George, to Safety in Poland.
18.03.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
18.03.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
Daniel Ravinsky, Viasheslav Gorduz, at the HumanDoc Relief House in Babice Nowe close to Warsaw which opened last week to shelter families fleeing Mariupol.
03.05.2022 Babice Nowe, Poland
03.05.2022 Babice Nowe, Poland
Iwana Nowogorskak-Jasinska has been teaching high school students at St. Stanisław Kostka school in Warsaw for 12 years. Now she’s also teaching Polish to young refugee children from Ukraine.Lesson entitled: Parts of the body.
13.05.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
13.05.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
From left; Timotey Khmel, 12; Wanya Cerucsh, 11; Larisa Roveniuk, 16; Vera Khmel, 15. They are part of a group of 72 orphans from Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, who have arrived in Duszniki-Zdrój, a small town in southern Poland.
04.07.2022 Duszniki Zdroj, Poland.
04.07.2022 Duszniki Zdroj, Poland.
Music classes with children from Ukraine.
20.04.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
20.04.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
Sawa Skrobot, 18, is student at St. Stanisław Kostka school in Warsaw. He’s Russian and his family has been in Poland for six years. He’s been trying to assess the war in Ukraine from a variety of sources, including international media as well as relatives in Russia and Ukraine. Although he offered something of an apology to classmates for Russia’s invasion, he believes the only beneficiaries of the war are the military industries.
Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw, Poland
Mr. Andrzej shares a barbeque and offers some shooting tips to Ukrainian women Olha and her 13-year old daughter Anastasia. Mr. Andrzej took them in and they now share the home of him and his wife outside Warsaw. Anastasia's first shooting lesson.
01.05.2022, Warsaw, Poland.
01.05.2022, Warsaw, Poland.
Oliver and Sofia Hawes got married in Kyiv two days before the Russian invasion. Now they are sleeping on a mat on the floor in a flat owned by a family friend in Warsaw. Mr. Hawes is American who lived in Kyiv, but his wife hasn’t yet been able to get a visa to travel with him to the U.S. He also sports a tattoo of a monument in Kharkiv that is a popular place for skate boarding.
15.03.2022,Warsaw, Poland.
15.03.2022,Warsaw, Poland.
Maksym Bilolutska, 14, came to Duszniki-Zdrój in southern Poland, from Brovary, Ukraine, with his mother, Lesia.
04.07.2022 Duszniki Zdroj, Poland.
04.07.2022 Duszniki Zdroj, Poland.
Town centre with the European Union, Polish and Ukrainian flags. 04.07.2022 Duszniki Zdroj, Poland.
People donating clothing and food at a makeshift refugee camp set up next to the highway to the Ukrainian border in Przemysl Poland.
26.02.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
26.02.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
Six months ago the area around a shelter in a vacant Tesco store on the outskirts of Przemysl, Poland, was packaged with volunteers offering hot food, clothing and other necessities. Now it is empty.
13.08.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
13.08.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
A board with photographs commemorating those who died in the war in Ukraine. It is located in the centre of Warsaw.
20.04.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
20.04.2022 Warsaw, Poland.
View from a new shelter for refugees in a building opened by the Ukrainian House in Przemysl.It houses up to 50 refugees and is one of only two left in the city.
13.08.2022 Przemysl, Poland.
13.08.2022 Przemysl, Poland.