As Russia’s invasion stalls, Ukraine’s refugees return home
More Ukrainians are leaving Poland than entering
Valeria, a fashion consultant, and her mother, a housewife, escaped to Poland in early March, a week after Russian missiles began falling on Kyiv, their home town. Three months later they are returning. “It’s hard to live a normal life when all you think of is your country,” Valeria says, standing alongside a bundle of bags, and hundreds of other Ukrainians, at a train station in Warsaw, the Polish capital.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The tide turns”
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