'Unimaginable tragedy': Ukrainians find refuge in Poland

Refugees from Africa, Middle East and India, mostly students of Ukrainian universities, at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. Photo: AFP

Moved to tears by the plight of the Ukrainian people, Polish volunteer Katarzyna Jasinska was offering a warm children's jacket to a refugee who had just crossed into Poland's eastern border village of Medyka.

"Some have arrived without anything at all or with just a handbag. As they fled, they didn't have time to bring a thing," said the veterinary technician who left her home in Tychy, southern Poland to offer a helping hand.