‘It’s a miracle’: Poles open their homes to Ukrainian refugees

Polish citizen Magdalena Petersen (right) is pictured with Ukrainians Katya Nesteruk (left), Yulia Koval (centre) and their children in their new Polish home [Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska/Al Jazeera]

Krakow, Poland – Katya Nesteruk and Yulia Koval did not know each other well before the first missiles hit their hometown of Brovary, near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

But weeks later, on March 9, they stood together at the main train station in Krakow with nowhere to go, their two small children at their sides, their lives already intertwined.