Refugees From Hard-Hit Areas in Eastern Ukraine Arrive in Poland, Describe Anguish of Fleeing

Ukrainian refugees walk into Poland through the Medyka border crossing on March 10, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

MEDYKA, Poland—Anna Gorpenich and her two children left the war-struck city of Sumy in Eastern Ukraine when the first safe-evacuation corridor arranged with Russia was opened.

Forty hours later, on the afternoon of March 10, the family arrived alongside thousands of Ukrainians streaming into Poland at the border crossing in Medyka.