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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
David Cohen and Lucy Young

Hands of hope reach out to refugees after desperate escape from Ukraine

As the train from Ukraine pulled into platform five at Zahony railway station on the Hungarian border, a dozen police boarded and began to process the refugees, family by family.

One of the first to get off, her face gaunt and stricken, was Ekataryn Velychko, 35, a mother who had escaped from Mariupol with her daughter Anastasia, eight, and son Radion, five.

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