French professor drives 1,200 miles to offer his house to Ukrainian refugees

Nastia Kiselyova and Victoria Pasichnyuk, who fled the Russia's invasion in Ukraine, sit in a camper van with a 70-yr old professor Yves Gineste, that drove it from southern France, near the Ukrainian-Slovakian border in Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Lukasz Glowala

VYSNE NEMECKE, Slovakia (Reuters) - When Russia invaded Ukraine last week French professor Yves Gineste didn't think twice - he set off on a four-day drive to the eastern edge of Slovakia to offer his Perpignan house to refugees.

Bearing a cardboard sign seeking "One family for a house in France, travel and house free", he registered with a charity at Vysne Nemecke, a crossing on the Slovakia-Ukraine border.