Essay: Poland has opened its arms to nearly a million Ukrainian refugees, but will they be able to stay for the long term?
KATE GOLEBIOWSKA, MARTA PACHOKA and SABINA KUBICIEL-LODZIŃSKA, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at the links between Ukraine and Poland and what the future may hold for Ukrainian refugees…
Continued US aid vital for Ukraine refugees returning home: UNHCR
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday it was vital for the United States to maintain its funding of humanitarian agencies to ease the refugee crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago. UNHCR requires $US993 million to fund its response to the crisis caused by the invasion, which […]
Close to half of Ukrainian refugees in Germany hope to stay
Berlin, GermanyReuters Of the more than one million Ukrainian refugees who came to Germany to escape the war, 44 per cent would like to stay in the country, according to a survey published on Wednesday. This was higher than the 39 per cent of Ukrainian refugees who said they were planning to stay in a […]
Essay: Refugees are living longer in exile than ever before, with complex consequences for them and their host communities
SHARIF A WAHAB, a Bangladeshi scholar who researches refugees’ everyday lives, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at why the number of people remaining refugees for five years or longer more than doubled over the past decade…
Japan’s G7 refugee balancing act: door open for Ukrainians, but not many others
Tokyo, JapanReuters More than a year after escaping her native Kyiv with a broken leg one winter night, Lidiya Bibko lives in a tidy two-bedroom Tokyo flat as one of 2,300 Ukrainians who fled to Japan after the Russian invasion. Japan’s embrace of evacuees like Bibko has been unusual for a country notorious for its […]
Pope, meeting Ukrainian refugees, says better future possible
Budapest, HungaryReuters Pope Francis on Saturday met Ukrainians who fled the war on Hungary’s eastern border, telling the refugees that a different future is possible. Francis met with about 600 refugees, poor and homeless people in a visit to St Elizabeth’s Church in Budapest on the second day of his visit, which began on Friday […]
Essay: Poland’s hospitality is helping many Ukrainian refugees thrive – five takeaways
In an article first published on The Conversation, PATRICA MCMAHON, a scholar of civil society and peace building at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, looks at what Poland’s reception of Ukrainian refugees has revealed…
Ukrainians mark Orthodox Christmas in Europe with a prayer to return home
Warsaw, Poland, Berlin, Germany Reuters Victoria, a Ukrainian refugee, is celebrating Orthodox Christmas in Poland with a simple prayer – that next year she will be back at home. The 40-year-old is one of the millions of Ukrainians who have fled the Russian invasion of their homeland and are marking the holiday with mixed emotions […]
Poland to charge Ukrainian refugees for government-provided housing
Warsaw, PolandReuters Poland plans to charge Ukrainian refugees for food and housing after four months of staying in state accommodation, the government said on Tuesday. More than a million Ukrainian refugees made a temporary home in Poland, Ukraine’s western neighbour, after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24th February, relying on the kindness of strangers who opened […]
Postcards: Ukrainian refugees find haven at French castle
EMMA BATHA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from France on how Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion have found housing and jobs with community initiative spreading across the country…