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Verena Hoelzl

‘Only the dead feel no guilt’: Ukrainian refugees on surviving

A girl inside a train says goodbye to relatives in Odesa, before she and her family escape the war in Ukraine for Poland, on April 2, 2022 [AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris]

Lublin, Przemysl and Korczowa, Poland – Sitting on a field bed covered with thick blankets in a small fire station that has been transformed into one of many refugee arrival centres along Poland’s border with Ukraine, Hanna Medvedska takes stock of her escape from Kyiv while the children around her play shooting games.

“I feel ashamed to be here, in this really safe situation, while in Ukraine women have to give birth in bomb shelters,” she tells Al Jazeera.

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