Press gallery // NRC starting up response in Poland

Katya and Kiril on a bus to Italy, Medyka border crossing

At the Medyka border crossing in Poland, Katya, 9, and her older brother, Kiril, 10, are impatiently waiting for the departure of the bus that will take them and their mother to Naples in Italy where their family lives.

"What I am most looking forward to? To finally see my grandparents again," says Katya.

Two monts into the war, the UN estimates that 7,5 million children have been displaced from their homes. This is two thirds of Ukraine's children according to UNICEF.

Medyka is the biggest crossing along the Polish-Ukraine border, which has witnessed up to 130,000 people passing from Ukraine daily since 24 February 2022 in the biggest mass flight of the century.

Photo: Ingebjørg Kårstad/NRC