War refugees arrive from Ukraine at Przemysl train station in Poland to continue their journey onward across Europe
(Picture: Lucy Young)On the day that the number refugees fleeing Ukraine officially passed two 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.
