WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST (Ukraine)

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began 20 days ago and is still ongoing, has forced three million people to flee the country. On foot, by car, by bus or even by train, everyone is trying to leave the border zone to find refuge elsewhere. Sadness can be seen on tired faces, as mothers try to reassure their young children. In the midst, volunteers try to alleviate the most urgent needs. According to the latest UN report, 1.4 million of these three million are children.

Several hundred Ukrainian refugees are waiting to be able to go to Poland via Shehynil - Medyka border post. According to the UN, since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, nearly a million people have ed the country. March 3, 2022. Shehynil, Poland.

In No Man’s Land between the Medyka border posts (Poland) and Shehynil (Ukraine), associations and volunteers offer food and clothing to re- fugees arriving from Ukraine. According to the UN, since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, nearly a million people have ed the country. March 3, 2022. MEDYKA, Poland.

Hundreds of refugees from Ukraine are queuing to pass the Medyka border post or takes place the identity controls. March 3, 2022. Ukraino-Polish border.

Women and children have just crossed the Medyka border post that marks their entry into the European Union via Poland. Behind them, many TV and press photographers teams. The place has become in a few days one of the hot spots to be covered since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. March 3, 2022. MEDYKA, Poland.
Plusieurs groupes de femmes avec des enfants traversent le poste frontière de Medyka qui marquent leur entrée dans l’union européenne via la Pologne. 3 mars 2022. Me- dyka, Pologne / Several groups of women with children cross the Medyka border post that marks their entry into the European Union via Poland. March 3, 2022. MEDYKA, Poland.

Members of an association finish filling a truck with medicines. The load has to be transported to Lviv.

An informal camp has sprung up on the Polish side of the border. Several associations are distributing food, clothing, diapers, coffee and soup,

Families of refugees from Ukraine warm up in the small supermarket at the border. Temperatures have been negative for a few days. March 7, 2022. MEDYKA, Poland.

At the Medyka border post, a woman runs towards a bus, with her child in a stroller. March 4, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

In one of the buses chartered to transport refugees from the border to the temporary reception center in Przemysl, a woman, with tears in her eyes, hugs her child. On the young boy’s coat we can read, it’s already time to do something. March 4, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

Refugees warm up with a re before being supported and transported by bus to Przemysl or a tem- porary reception center has been opened to receive refugees who have in ux from the beginning of the invasion Ukraine by Russia. March 4, 2022. Przemysl, Poland

Several dozen people pile into a bus departing from Medyka (Poland). The buses are chartered by the Polish government and are used to transport refugees crossing the Ukrainian-Polish border on foot. The buses then drop people off at emergency reception centers opened by the municipalities of the large neighboring towns.

Women and children get off a bus that takes them from the Medyka border post (Poland) to the parking lot of the temporary reception center in Przemysl. The complex is actually a shopping center (Tesco) transformed for the occasion from the start of the con ict and the rapid arrival of people eeing the advance of the Russian army. March 2, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

Women and child- ren have just arrived at Przemysl station in Poland. The train, coming from Lviv (Ukraine), is lled with refugees leaving Ukraine at war following the invasion of the country by the Russian army. March 4, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

Two women embrace at Przemysl station. One of them holds her Ukrainian passport in her hands. She has just arrived by train from Lviv and nds her sister who had already managed to ee the ongoing invasion in Ukraine. March 4, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

D (22) and V (24) with their child Vladimir (4 months). V had gone to work in Poland and war broke out 2 days later. Since then he has been sleeping with a friend and waiting for his wife and son to join him. He wants to take care of his family and wants to go to Germany. The mother and the baby will rest a little in this room at the Przemysl station specially equipped for mothers. March 2, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

Refugees eat in the hall of Przemysl station. The railway station is a crossroads on the journey of the refugees. Trains arrive and depart in Ukraine, bringing women, children by the hundreds. Volunteers take the trains back to go ght or help. The station is also the departure point for refugees to the big cities of Poland allowing them to continue their journeys. March 4, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

Inside the Tesco shopping center, transformed into a temporary reception center. New rooms open every day

Luna, 77, has just arrived at the Tesco shopping centre, which has been converted into a temporary reception center for refugees. She holds her dog Moly in her arms. Luna is accompanied by her son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. She is still in shock after eeing the ghting in Kharkiv. March 2, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

A man sleeps on a cot. He is one of the 6,000 people accommodated in this shop- ping center transformed into a temporary reception center. 3 March 2022. Mlyny. Poland.

At the Tesco shopping centre, which has been transformed into a temporary reception centre, a volunteer is in charge of nding space on buses to various cities in Europe for refugees who have just arrived from Ukraine. March 4, 2022. Przemysl, Poland

A woman who has collapsed is transferred from the Przemysl temporary shelter to hospital. March 8, 2022. Przemysl, Poland

In front of the Mlyny shopping center transformed into a temporary reception center, women and children wait to board buses that will take them to various destinations in Europe. Many associations and individuals offer this service free of charge. 3 March 2022. Mlyny. Poland.

Vo- lunteers empty a bus full of food. The bus arrived from Germany a few hours earlier. From the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, many associations and many volunteers ocked to offer their help. The spontaneity of the donors combined with the rapidity of intervention of the small associative structures on the ground quickly showed the limits in the management of enormous quantities of foodstuffs and in the face of the massive in ux of refugees. March 3, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

From Przemysl station, women and children who ed the war in Ukraine depart for various destinations in Poland and elsewhere in Europe. Fatigue can be seen on all faces. March 7, 2022, Przemysl, Poland.

On one of the trains from Przemysl to Krakow. The women and children seek their place in the wagons among the usual passengers. According to the UN, since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, nearly two million people have ed the country. March 7, 2022. Przemysl, Poland

Sergei sleeps in the arms of his mother Dasha next to his grandmother. they ed the Karkiv region. Dasha’s husband, Ruslan remained in Ukraine. March 2, 2022. Przemysl, Poland.

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