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In Kyiv, Blinken pledges $717 million in new economic aid to Ukraine

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced $717 million in new economic and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, including $325 million in energy support to help repair and restore power generation facilities hit by Russian strikes. The package includes $290 million in humanitarian help and $102 million for demining…

France 24

In Ukraine to show solidarity, Japan's Kishida meets Zelenskiy, tours massacre site

Japan's Fumio Kishida met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Tuesday during a rare, unannounced visit by a Japanese leader that underscored Tokyo's emphatic support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion.

Reuters

Ukrainian refugees offered flat in Glasgow stranded in Poland for three weeks

Sisters Viktoriia Khrebtova and Olesia Chechotkina and their three children aged two, six and 14, are living in a cramped, two-bedroom flat in Przemysl.

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Sleepless and silent — Ukraine’s children traumatised by war

Fearful of bombs and forced from their homes, the psychological legacy of war on Ukraine’s children will be deep and far-reaching. Ros Russell reports from Przemysl near the Poland-Ukraine border

Evening Standard

U.S. to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing war amid broader aid effort

The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion and is pledging $1 billion in new humanitarian aid, the Biden administration said on Thursday after a month of bombardments touched off Europe's fastest-moving refugee crisis since the end of World War Two.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine: ‘Helping refugees is easy now. It may get harder’

A Polish humanitarian worker describes a mood of overwhelming support for Ukrainians, but worries this could change.

Al Jazeera

More than 50,000 Ukrainian refugees arriving daily in Polish border towns

Up to 50,000 refugees have been arriving each day in the Polish town of Przemyśl near the border with Ukraine, with hundreds more arriving at other frontier crossing points. Warsaw has thus far spent €1.6 billion to manage the influx of people escaping the Russian invasion.

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Ukrainian refugees find shelter and solace in Polish theatre

Ukrainian mothers and their young children found shelter in an ornate theatre in the Polish border town of Przemysl on Saturday, where they were able to get some rest after their harrowing journey.

Reuters

Man travels to Poland to 'proactively' find a Ukrainian refugee to house

Max Fox has criticised the Government's lack of guidance

Wales Online

Briton searching for Ukrainian refugee in Poland ‘surprised’ by lack of guidance

Max Fox is offering a room in his Lancashire home to a Ukrainian he hopes to meet in Przemysl, near the Ukrainian border.

The Independent UK

Ukrainian refugee ‘sad and angry’ at Russian invasion

Yana Syniavina and her mother Liubov Syniavina fled Kyiv when the war began.

The Independent UK

Poland sees signs women fleeing Ukraine may be trafficking target

Poland has seen indications that human traffickers may be targeting refugees fleeing the Ukraine war, officials and aid workers said on Tuesday, and although trafficking cases have not been confirmed, preventative efforts are now being put in place.

Reuters

AP PHOTOS: Day 19: Images across Ukraine show wreckage, fear

The interior ruins of an apartment destroyed by Russian shelling were visible from the streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. People in winter coats and hats took cover from an attack inside a building entryway in Mariupol, a besieged port city. And in neighboring Poland, a young refugee in blue…

The Independent UK

'How long, Lord?' archbishop implores at service for Poland's Ukrainians

At Sunday Mass in the Polish border town of Przemysl, Ukrainian-speaking Greek Catholics listened as their archbishop asked the questions on many people's lips since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two weeks ago.

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Daily Mirror

Gran-of-five flying to Ukraine to 'do her bit' for refugees fleeing Russia's invasion

Gran Wanda Warrington, 55, who goes by Wendy, is set to travel to Polish border city Przemysl after feeling "compelled" to help the Ukrainians seeking sanctuary from Vladimir Putin's invasion

The Independent UK

Meet the rescuers trying to save fleeing Ukrainians: ‘The hardest part was I could only take four people’

David Cohen has spoken to those who have dropped everything and driven to the Polish border to help Ukrainians seeking refuge as part of our Refugees Welcome campaign coverage

Reuters

Thousands more Ukrainians flee across borders, many with nowhere to go

Thousands more Ukrainian refugees fled to central and eastern Europe on Wednesday, many with no contacts and nowhere to go, as host countries scrambled to accommodate them.

Evening Standard

Special dispatch: Acts of kindness are leavening otherwise bleak and pitiful scene on Ukraine-Poland border

One man travelled for 15 hours to rescue a pregnant Ukrainian, reports David Cohen

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Help extended to Ukrainians in Poland

PRZEMYSL, Poland -- People continue to flee Ukraine following Russia's invasion of the country.

Reuters

Ukrainians stream over the borders as evacuations from besieged cities begin

Thousands more people fleeing fierce fighting in Ukraine streamed into central and eastern Europe on Tuesday amid renewed efforts to create safe evacuation routes from cities being bombarded by Russian forces.

Reuters

'Please close the sky' say Ukrainian refugees

Ukrainians fleeing into central European pleaded for Western nations to take tougher steps against Russia following Moscow's invasion that has created more than 1 million refugees.

Daily Mirror

Student preparing to 'kill as many Russians as possible' to help save Ukraine

Maryna Mazur, who studies in Berlin, tonight returned to Ukraine after travelling from her apartment in the German capital via Przemysl, Poland, six miles from the Ukrainian border

Los Angeles Times

City in Poland's southeast becomes major travel hub for refugees from Ukraine

PRZEMYSL, Poland — Oskar Broz stood in the Polish train station amid the tumult of anxious refugees, overwhelmed police officers and exhausted volunteers distributing hot food and drink.

Al Jazeera

Non-Ukrainian refugees recount their long journey to Poland

More than 450,000 fled to Poland after it opened its borders to anyone regardless of nationality and documents held.

France 24

War in Ukraine: Foreign residents among thousands fleeing the conflict

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the conflict in Ukraine to seek refuge in neighbouring Poland. Those displaced aren’t just native Ukrainians however – huge numbers of foreign residents have been forced to flee. FRANCE 24's Luke Shrago and Tarek Kai report from the border city of Przemysl as…

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