This week, the number of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine is approaching the 5 million mark. Their first port of entry are countries that border western Ukraine. From there, many people continue their arduous journey west, but not after a pitstop in refugee centres in Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova. Or in the country that has a history of resentment against immigrants: Hungary.
On 24 February, the sound of explosions jolted Tanya Shymko and her family from their sleep in their flat in Kyiv. “We realised the war had started,” she told RFI.
