Several hundred refugees were gathered at a temporary reception center in the Hungarian border village of Beregsurany awaiting transport to transit hubs, where they would be taken further into Hungary and beyond.
, has opened its borders to all refugees fleeing Ukraine, including third-country nationals that can prove Ukrainian residency. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, speaking by video to the U.N. Security Council, said more than 520,000 refugees had fled Ukraine, a number he said “has been rising exponentially, hour after hour.”In Poland, which has reported the most arrivals at more than 280,000, trains continued to bring refugees into the border town of Przemysl on Monday. In winter coats to protect them against near-freezing temperatures, many carried small suitcases as they exited the station.
Natalia Pivniuk, a young Ukrainian woman from Lviv, described people crowding and pushing to get on the train, which she said was “very scary, and dangerous physically and dangerous mentally.” The site near the Kremlin in Moscow where opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down is covered with anti-war flowers and notes.
I hope Alaska will be welcoming some of them.
and we can assume they're not going to be whipped like Haitian migrants were?