The number of refugees continued unabated Sunday, even as humanitarian corridors meant to ease the flight of refugees collapsed as quickly as they were agreed upon inside Ukraine.
Ukrainian man Yevgen Chornomordenko 34, reunites with his family at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland on Sunday, March 6, 2022. Chonomordenko had been waiting for 11 days on the Polish side of the border for this wife, Alina, and two children to arrive from the Ukrainian capital, which had woken up to Russian shelling on Feb. 24. War had broken out at home just days after his arrival in the Polish city of Wroclow, near Germany, for a job installing solar panels.
Nearby, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, visited the same Medyka border crossing, proclaiming the number of refugees leaving Ukraine the fastest-growing humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II. In just 11 days, 1.5 million people had sought safety in neighboring countries.Just moments after the U.N.
Grandi said the humanitarian corridors also were critical to allowing basic goods to arrive to those in need and to evacuate the most vulnerable. In a highly unusual move, the pontiff said he had dispatched two Cardinals to the war-ravaged country, signaling that the “Holy See is ready to do everything in the service of this peace.”
Volunteers took care of him, took him to a warm shelter and gave him food and drinks, and later reunited him with family in Bratislava. “The first thing that we do as servants of the Church is talk to them, help them trust again, and understand that life doesn’t end at the Ukrainian border, or any other border,” said Maghiar, who has seen many refugees come by his church since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
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