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Al Jazeera
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Arwa Ibrahim

‘There’s Poland, now walk’: Arab students’ ordeal out of Ukraine

African, Asian and Arab students describe harrowing journeys and discrimination as they fled Ukraine [File: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP]

When Amani al-Attar left Dnipro in southeast Ukraine on the second day of the Russian invasion, she thought it would be a matter of hours before she crossed into the safety of neighbouring Poland.

Instead, the 25-year-old Moroccan student described a harrowing, days-long journey that was riddled with discrimination from Ukrainian soldiers, military volunteers, and ordinary citizens along the way.

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