More than 934,000 people have fled Ukraine in just over a week.
The Piliahin family fled their home in Kyiv’s suburbs, spending four days hiding in smaller towns, then driving through the Carpathian Mountains until they reached the Polish border. There, they joined the roughly 400,000 Ukrainians who have sought shelter in Poland in the past week.The family’s breadwinner, Oleksiy Piliahin, 42, was part of a painters union in Ukraine, with a long list of clients whose walls he’d redo or tables he’d varnish.
In addition to the temporary protection measure, the E.U. has relaxed its usual border controls to help let in people on “humanitarian grounds.” Human rights groups, however, have expressed concern about alleged discrimination at some border crossings. On Monday, the African Union issued a statement urging all countries to respect international law, after reports that Ukrainian border guards were preventing citizens of African countries the right to cross to safety.
Sekou said that when he tried to get on a train at the border crossing, police beat him and told him Africans were secondary. He eventually got through at the Slovakian border.
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