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Fleeing Russia’s authoritarianism

March 28, 2022 - Elira Kadriu

As the Russian invasion in Ukraine intensifies, space for dissent within Russian society decreases more and more. Thousands of people, mostly youths, who wish to distance themselves from Putin's politics, are leaving the country. Over 10,000 Russian citizens have already moved to Georgia, but even once across the border, fears of the potential ramifications of this exodus remain.

Stay or leave? The doubt of Alexandra and the people of Lviv

March 14, 2022 - Ilaria Romano

To stay and prepare to resist the bombing, or to escape the violence and face a very long journey with a small child? Alexandra's family, like all those in Lviv, is living hours of waiting and anguish. Ilaria Romano met them for us.

A new beginning for Ukrainian refugees in Prague

March 10, 2022 - Romina Vinci

Ukrainians are the largest foreign community in the Czech Republic, with almost 197,000 legally resident at the end of 2021. The Czech people have rallied around them and immediately mobilised to help the people at war and those fleeing the country. Romina Vinci reports from Prague.

Millions of lives changed forever

March 9, 2022 - Elira Kadriu

On Tuesday 8 March, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, claimed that more than 2 million people have fled Ukraine, which makes the current crisis "the fastest growing crisis since World War II". Dramatic numbers, behind which lie the stories of so many women and men whose lives have changed forever. Elira Kadriu spoke to a few of them.

Lviv is a Transit Point to Flee Ukraine

March 8, 2022 - Ilaria Romano

All the refugees fleeing Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mariupol, Kherson, and other cities assaulted by the Russian Army stream through Lviv, where they wait for hours to board a train to a safe destination. How is the city preparing to help them?

Medyka and Przemyśl, the last frontier

March 5, 2022 - Ilaria Romano

With Ilaria Romano we travel to the villages of Medyka and Przemyśl, along the Polish-Ukrainian border, to continue our report both on the drama of those fleeing the war, and also on how solidarity is responding to the emergency.

A tragedy within a tragedy: the racial discrimination suffered by non-Ukrainian refugees

March 1, 2022 - Oiza Q. Obasuyi

Since the breakout of war in Ukraine, more than 600,000 people have left the country, and many others are currently attempting to do so. Among these are people - mainly from Africa and South Asia - who are not Ukrainian but who live in Ukraine and who, just like the others, wanted to escape as quickly as possible. However, a growing number of pictures and videos show how unequal their treatment has been.

Rzeszów, Poland’s largest city on the south-eastern border, receives refugees from Ukraine

March 22, 2022 - Ilaria Romano

Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the Polish border has already been crossed by several thousand people escaping the violence. Ilaria Romano traveled to Rzeszów, the largest Polish city on the south-eastern border, to tell us how they are getting organised and to collect the first testimonies of those who have finally reached Poland.

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