Kroscienko, Poland – Jaroslaw Perzynski has not slept for 30 hours. Ever since the beginning of the war last week in Ukraine, the mayor of Sierpc – a small Polish town of 17,000 people – has been devoting most of his time gathering warm clothes, food and water for refugees crossing into Poland.
At the border crossing in the town of Kroscienko, Perzynski walks between the groups of refugees and hands in toys and drawings donated by the children of Sierpc to the children arriving from the other side of the frontier. The rest of his city council staff unpack the 10 tonnes of items they have brought to the border from the town in central Poland.
