Elena Yurchuk saw families with children blown up and the hospital she worked in reduced to rubble during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"I don't know if I have a home or not," said the 44-year-old nurse from the northern Ukrainian town of Chernihiv. "Our city is under siege and we barely escaped."
While the number of people arriving in neighboring countries from Ukraine appears to have eased in the past week, the refugees' harrowing accounts of destruction and death are evidence of the continued suffering of civilians in Ukrainian cities besieged by Russian forces. More than 1.5 million refugees have arrived in Poland since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 -- out of a total of around 2.7 million people that the United Nations say have fled so far.
For Natalia, a 55-year-old Ukrainian refugee from Zaporizhizhia, this was her second time fleeing, after leaving the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, when Russia annexed it.
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