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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lorenzo Tondo

Ukraine urged to take ‘humane’ approach as men try to flee war

Children in an evacuation train from Kyiv to Lviv say goodbye to their father
Children in an evacuation train from Kyiv to Lviv in Ukraine say goodbye to their father, 3 March. Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

The UN has urged Ukraine to take a “compassionate and humane” approach to the enforcement of martial law after reports of Ukrainian men defying orders to stay and attempting to cross into neighbouring countries to claim asylum.

Men of conscription age, aged 18 to 60, were banned from leaving Ukraine after the Russian invasion on 24 February but there have been multiple reports of men with Ukrainian citizenship trying to cross into Hungary, Poland and Romania. It is unclear how many have been allowed to pass.

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