Unlike refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, Ukrainians were largely met with sympathy and help after Russia invaded their country last year. Yet while these refugees have found safety, many haven’t found peace.
, separated from relatives, fearing for loved ones stuck in Russian-occupied areas or fighting on the frontline. Children are separated from fathers, grandparents, pets. Others have no family or homes to return to.
Anastasiia Gudkova, a Ukrainian providing psychological support to refugees at a Norwegian Refugee Council reception center in Warsaw, said the most traumatized people she meets come from Mariupol, Kherson and other occupied territories. Those who flee bombing in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia also arrive terrified.
The luckiest ones are able to keep doing their old jobs remotely from exile or are beginning to envision new lives.
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