Ukrainians refugees plead for tougher action against Russia

Ukrainians fleeing into central European pleaded for Western nations to take tougher steps against Russia following Moscow’s invasion that has created more than 1 million refugees.

At the Medyka crossing, Poland’s busiest, along its roughly 500-kilometre (310-mile) border with Ukraine, refugees called for a no-fly zone over Ukraine — something NATO powers have so far ruled out on the grounds it would risk escalating the conflict beyond Ukraine. Please close the sky,” said Solomiya Zdryko, 18, who fled from Lviv in western Ukraine. “I know that it’s not possible for us to join NATO but at least close the sky because people are dying. It’s great that the whole world is watching us and supporting us, but it really needs to stop.

Poland, whose Ukrainian community of around 1 million is the region’s largest, has accepted nearly 800,000 Ukrainian refugees since the start of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Paweł Szefernaker told reporters. More than 106,000 arrived from Ukraine in the last 24 hours, the highest figure since the war erupted.

Russia said its forces had stopped firing near two Ukrainian cities on Saturday to allow safe passage to civilians fleeing fighting, but was continuing its broad offensive in Ukraine, where the capital Kyiv came under renewed assault.

Moscow says its invasion is a “special operation” to capture individuals it regards as dangerous nationalists and to counter what it views as NATO aggression, and has denied targeting civilians.

Source: IOL

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