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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Ferghal Blaney

Irish aid workers at Ukraine border 'feel worst yet to come' as desperate refugees queue for days to cross

Irish aid workers are already at the border between Poland and Ukraine and are helping Ukrainian refugees with “nowhere to go” flee the murderous Russian invasion.

Almost 900,000 Ukrainians have fled their country already, almost half of them to Poland, as hundreds of thousands more make their three to four day journey from east to west Ukraine looking for a way out.

Up to a quarter of a million people are now queuing for up to three days at the border between Ukraine and Poland, desperate to escape Vladimir Putin’s soldiers’ brutal attacks that have left 2,000 Ukrainian civilians dead in a week.

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