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Ros Russell

‘Mum, I want you to know that I loved you’: a Ukrainian mother brings her children to safety

We first saw Iryna sitting on the floor in Przemsyl train station in eastern Poland, just a few minutes from the border with Ukraine.

She was sobbing; her young daughter Polina was kneeling next to her, stroking her mother’s hair and clumsily wiping her wet cheeks.

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