Refugees flee across EU borders as Ukrainian fighting intensifies | News24

Slovak soldiers and volunteers help Ukrainian refugees after they crossed the border in Vysne Nemecke, eastern Slovakia.About 100 000 people have made it to Poland in just two days.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.

"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 07:00 on Saturday, Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker told a news conference.

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.

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