Women, children, old people flee from Putin’s army – great trek west – politics abroad

by time news March 6, 2022

March 6, 2022

A veritable migration of peoples is moving through Lemberg, a city of 700,000 in western Ukraine, towards Poland. People fleeing death and destruction whose homes have been bombed.

Most of them are women and children, because the men have to stay in Ukraine to fight against the Russian invaders. Many refugees have already spent days in bunkers or metro stations.

They couldn’t take much with them: money, passport, medication, some clothes. Sometimes not even that: some had to flee so quickly that they were only wearing slippers on their feet.

What the future brings? Uncertain. Many do not know in the morning where they will sleep in the evening.

According to “Spiegel”, the International Organization for Migration estimates that up to 225,000 war refugees from Ukraine could seek protection in Germany. The UN refugee agency UNHCR reported on Thursday that 1.2 million people had been displaced from Ukraine in Europe.

Abschied von Papa, der in den Krieg zieht: Oleg R. reicht Söhnchen Maksim über den Zaun zu seiner Frau Yana im ukrainischen Irpin

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Farewell to dad who is going to war: Oleg R. hands his son Maksim over the fence to his wife Yana in Irpin, UkrainePhoto: EPA

The migration researcher Gerald Knaus (52) even expects that ten million Ukrainians will be on the run. Europe is “facing the fastest and biggest refugee catastrophe since the Second World War,” Knaus told RND.

The European Union is counting on the majority of Ukrainians to distribute themselves to the countries where they have contacts. Knaus: “In addition, there will be many people who will have to be helped to arrive.”

Alle wollen weg: Flüchtlinge drängen sich an einem Evakuierungszug aus der Hauptstadt nach Lemberg

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Everyone wants to leave: Refugees crowd an evacuation train from the capital to LembergPhoto: GLEB GARANICH/REUTERS

Eine junge Frau ist total aufgelöst und weint hemmungslos. Sie hat für sich und ihr Kind keinen Platz in einem Evakuierungszug aus Kiew bekommen. Die Angst vor weiteren russischen Angriffen lässt sie

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A young woman is totally upset and cries uncontrollably. She was not given a place on an evacuation train from Kyiv for herself and her child. The fear of further Russian attacks makes them despairPhoto: ddp/abaca press

The expellees can use international long-distance trains on a total of 40 routes to travel from Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic to Germany; they do not need a ticket.

So far, Poland has taken in most of the refugees. In Germany, too, the willingness to help is enormous. Many volunteers help with first aid. In an Insa survey for BILD am SONNTAG on Friday (1005 respondents), more than one in three (37 percent) said they would take in Ukrainian refugees at home.

In the next few days, more trains are to bring refugees from Poland to Germany. Most arrive in Berlin.

Ukrainische Flüchtlinge kommen am Berliner Hauptbahnhof an. Auf 40 Routen können sie mit Fernzügen aus Polen, Österreich und Tschechien nach Deutschland fahren

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Ukrainian refugees arrive at Berlin Central Station. You can travel to Germany on 40 routes with long-distance trains from Poland, Austria and the Czech RepublicPhoto: imago images/Stefan Zeitz

Pastor Bernd Siggelkow, founder of the Berlin aid organization Die Arche, criticizes the lack of coordination when taking in refugees from the Ukraine.

Siggelkow to BILD am SONNTAG: “You can’t just send receptive people to the train station and have Ukrainians picked up there.”

Germany has a duty to protect these people. Many are traumatized. “They need a daily structure, have to be registered and receive medical attention.”

“We stand with the Ukrainian people. Now is the time to stand together in Europe. That’s why we need pan-European solidarity – every country should help to take in refugees from Ukraine,” says Saarland’s Prime Minister Tobias Hans.

“The Ukrainians are defending the values of our free democracy, especially in the fight against Putin. There must be no arguing about who should take in how many Ukrainian women and children, where, and how many. Rather, everyone must now help quickly and unbureaucratically and in close coordination between the EU, the federal government, the federal states and the municipalities.”

Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (46, CDU) calls in BILD am SONNTAG “a strategic organization for the registration and distribution to the federal states.” Because: “Berlin is currently overwhelmed with it”.

Kretschmer wants to use the “Corona General” for this: “General Breuer could certainly provide valuable logistical help with his Corona crisis team.”

Women, children, old people flee from Putin's army: Great trek west — Photo: BILD

Women, children, old people flee from Putin’s army – great trek west – politics abroad

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