On the day that the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine officially passed 2 million, Maarten Roelofs from the Netherlands was focused on finding just one of them – a woman, 33-weeks pregnant, who could give birth at any moment.
At the thronging Medyka border-crossing into Poland, Maarten and his neighbour Hans van Wyk split up to cover the exits, holding up hand-made signs that said “Ellen” and peered urgently into the faces of the exhausted women streaming endlessly towards them.
