A new refugee crisis has come to Europe

A TRAIN PACKED with hundreds of Ukrainians arrives in Przemysl, a city in eastern Poland, after several hours’ delay. Nearly all are women and children, many of them exhausted and crying. At Medyka, the nearby border crossing, the situation is even more desperate. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians, as well as foreigners escaping Ukraine, queue on the Ukrainian side in the cold. Many have left their cars behind in heavy traffic and continued on foot.Holding a bag in one hand, her young daughter’s hand in the other, and carrying her toddler in a sling, Anastasia describes walking 17km to the border. She was greeted by chaos and impenetrable crowds. A young couple saw a village consumed by flames along the way. “It was hell,” says Katya, recalling how her apartment in Kyiv shook as Russian bombs struck the city. “Fuck Russia,” she says, before correcting herself: “Fuck Putin.”