Ukrainians face long wait at borders as officials seek to ease bottlenecks

A volunteer talks to a woman and children who fled from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania, February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

MEDYKA, Poland/UBLA, Slovakia (Reuters) - Poland sought to ease passage into the European Union on Monday for around quarter of a million Ukrainians waiting at European border crossings in freezing conditions after fleeing the Russian invasion of their country.

With men of conscription age prevented from leaving Ukraine, groups of mainly women and children arrived at borders in eastern Poland, Slovakia and Hungary and in northern and northeastern Romania.