
As the train from Ukraine pulled into platform 5 at Záhony railway station on the Hungarian border, a dozen police boarded and began to process the refugees, family by family.
One of the first to alight, her face gaunt and stricken, was Ekataryn Velychko, 35, a mother who had escaped from Mariupol with her daughter Anastasia, 8, and son Radion, 5.