More than 400,000 people have fled in the four days since the war began, according to the United Nations. Lines to leave the country stretched 20 miles at one crossing.
Thousands more people in Ukraine are ready to escape but are stuck in seemingly endless waits at border posts where they hope to cross into Poland’s industrial southeast, or over the Carpathian Mountains into Slovakia and Hungary, or across the delta of the Danube into Romania.Immigration authorities in the five countries immediately to Ukraine’s west have been overwhelmed, and many trying to flee have waited for days. Those with cars sleep in them.
At the busiest border post between Ukraine and Poland, the line of cars stretches for over 20 miles with families fleeing war. Their hearts are still at home. “The Ukrainians are fighting a war,” said Ewa Leniart, a top regional government official. “So, of course, the border security is facing a lack of capacity.”With border points jammed, some decided against fleeing, finding shelter in cities such as Lviv, around 50 miles from the Polish border and one of the safer cities in the country.
“If it was easier, we would leave,” Chefranova said. Instead, they planned to return to their hometown of Ivano-Frankivsk, a city 80 miles to the southeast, where they would collect the family cat and then head to the mountains near Hungary.While the vast majority of those fleeing are Ukrainians, a significant number of those crossing Sunday were not.
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