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发帖数: 5601 | 1 https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1102935668/russia-ukraine-war-100-days-
refugees-ukrainians-return
June 3, 2022, Bill Chappell
The full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine has reached the 100-day mark,
with no end in sight.
The conflict has forced millions of Ukrainians to flee their homes,
including an estimated two-thirds of the country's children. With so many
people displaced inside the country and even more escaping to other
countries, "this is the largest human displacement crisis in the world today
," according to the United Nations refugee agency.
Yet the dire circumstances haven't stopped people from returning to parts of
Ukraine, as the violence has become increasingly focused in the south and
east of the country.
The U.N. refugee agency, known as UNHCR, has recorded nearly 7 million
border crossings out of Ukraine since Feb. 24, when Russia launched the
invasion. Now more than 2 million have crossed back into Ukraine.
"In recent weeks more people have been returning to Ukraine than leaving the
country," says Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1099876370/ukraine-russia-poland-border-
return
Millions rushed to leave Ukraine. Now the queue to return home stretches for
miles
May 20, 2022, Ayen Bior, Ari Shapiro, Matt Ozug
MEDYKA, POLAND -- Medyka, Poland is a quiet and idyllic farming village near
the southeastern border with Ukraine.
But in recent months, it has become the busiest border crossing for
Ukrainian refugees since the war with Russia began in late February.
In February and March, refugees waited for hours or days there to cross into
Poland. Now, the flow has reversed. The long lines are on the Polish side
of the border filled with people waiting to cross into Ukraine.
Anna Kobernyk and her friends have been waiting in a van for six hours,
parked in a line of vehicles almost 10 miles long.
Weeks after the war began, the Medyka border crossing was filled with
refugees leaving Ukraine. People wept, afraid that they were departing their
country forever, not knowing if they would even have a country to return to.
Now, even though there is still death and fighting in Ukraine's south and
east, the scene here at the Polish border has lost the panic and fear it
once had.
Violetta Naboka and her 14-year-old daughter have spent the last two months
living with Polish strangers who, she says, treated them like family.
"These people really love Ukraine," she says. "I'm very happy because I
really want to [return] to my house, to my husband, to my mother, to my dog
Brooklyn."
This crossing no longer feels like a fork in life where there's no turning
back.
On the vehicle path of the border, double-decker buses idle bumper to bumper
, waiting for the border guard to signal when it's their turn to cross the
border.
The signs on their dashboards say they've begun their journeys in Poland,
Germany, Italy, and places even farther west.
Some of the destination cities are Kyiv, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk — all in
Ukraine.
It's not just passenger vehicles and buses waiting to cross the border into
Ukraine. The line of commercial trucks is also far longer than it used to be
, because this is one of the few ways anything can get into Ukraine these
days.
"Sometimes we're here 48 hours," says a trucker named Roman Makar. "Because
all of the transport into Ukraine is now made by land, not air."
The airport in Kyiv is closed. So is the seaport in Mariupol.
"This is my home," he says. "My wife and kids still live there." |
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