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Two million people have been displaced from Ukraine since the start of the war, which claimed the lives of 516 civilians, including 37 children. Effect of the Russian invasion, the departure of refugees from the country has some marks.
- She is mostly female. Women and children form a large part of this group;
- Men from 18 to 60 years old are forbidden to go out and are called up for combat;
Two reports from the envoy of the sheet in Ukraine, André Liohn, expose this reality.
He accompanied a father in Lviv to say goodbye to his wife and son, who had left Ukraine, and went into combat. In Irpin, northwest of Kiev, he walked the humanitarian corridors that evacuate elderly people from conflict areas.
It was close to Irpin that a mother and two children died after a Russian mortar attack. The image of the tragedy, captured by photographer Lynsey Addario, shocked the world. Read an article that tells who the family was.
On Wednesday, a new ceasefire agreement to allow refugees to leave was thwarted by intense shelling. Ukraine has accused the Russians of violating the truce in the cities of Kharkiv and Mariupol, where a children’s hospital that had a maternity hospital was destroyed.
Do not get lost
Reporter Flávia Mantovani, who covers issues related to refugees in sheet and on the blog Babel Paulistana, explains what the Ukrainian population has faced when trying to escape to safe zones.
agglomerations
This is the fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II. The conflict in Syria, which generated another recent mass exodus, had two years of fighting before reaching the mark of 2 million people in flight, already registered in Ukraine. There is turmoil at train stations and long lines of cars and pedestrians at the borders.
Failure in the humanitarian corridors
The Russian and Ukrainian governments agreed to create safe zones to evacuate civilians — so-called humanitarian corridors — but the agreements were thwarted after ceasefire violations amid exchanges of accusations between the two sides.
Discrimination against foreigners
Black immigrants posted on social media that they were victims of racism as they tried to escape, being stopped on trains, buses and at the borders by guards and other Ukrainian citizens. The government of Nigeria, home to many Ukrainian university students, and Human Rights Watch have reported allegations of discrimination.
Cold
Subzero temperatures have made the escape journey even harder. Many need to walk for hours in the open. Brazilians who fled Ukraine told Folha their fear of dying of hypothermia. This week, a cold front coming from the Arctic made the weather even colder.
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What to see and hear to stay informed
The reception of refugees in Europe is explained on the Café da Manhã podcast, and a Ukrainian woman who spent ten years under Russian control shares her vision of the conflict on video.
Listen up: Ukraine’s refugee crisis and the European Union’s open doors
Look: Former Russian political prisoner, 98, talks about war
