In tears at border, Ukrainians say they held on until they had to flee

FILE PHOTO: People fleeing Russian invasion of Ukraine change trains at Euroterminal to be transferred to temporary accommodation centers around the country, in Slawkow, Poland March 5, 2022. Grzegorz Celejewski/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS/File Photo

SHEHYNI, Ukraine (Reuters) - Valery Petrovich Sorokin, 66, didn't want to leave his home outside of Kharkiv. He suffers from arthritis and struggles to move. But, a month into the war, as Russian bombs fell around him, his family told him he had to go to Poland with them.

"There are planes all the time and the sound of bombing all the time, it's very loud," he told Reuters tearfully as his family huddled under green tents set up to protect refugees from the rain as they waited at the Shehyni border crossing in Ukraine.