Poland’s Border Guard says about 22,000 people have crossed into Ukraine since Russia invaded last Thursday
While hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians flee their country, some Ukrainian men and women are returning home from across Europe to help defend their homeland in the face of Russia’s invasion.
“We have to defend our homeland. Who else if not us?” said a moustachioed man in front of a group of some 20 Ukrainian truck drivers walking to the checkpoint to enter Ukraine. They came from across Europe to return to Ukraine.Members of the group declined to give their names, or only gave only their first names, citing their security and that of their families.
“I talked to my parents and I cried. And I just decided to myself that I can’t watch that and I can’t just stay in Poland as Russians destroy our independence, destroy our cities, kill our citizens, kill our children, kill our elderly people,” he said in English. “I am afraid, but I am a mother and want to be with my children. What can you do? It’s scary but I have to,” she said.“We have to, we Ukrainians have to take our children away … to allow our boys to fight,” she said.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs is preparing bonuses to families who would lose income if “the men need to join the [Ukrainian] army,” Minister Marian Jurecka said.Czech railways said Ukrainian men travelling back to Ukraine can take any train free of charge. They need to travel through Poland or Slovakia to reach Ukraine.
Israeli leaders are cautious in how they speak of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. The country is home to hundreds of thousands of people with roots in Ukraine or Russia, or in both countries, and has sought good ties with both Moscow and Kyiv.
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