Full of fear and foreboding, meet the refugees who have fled Ukraine for Poland
Ukrainian refugees have been arriving at the Polish border city of Przemyśl carrying light luggage but a heavy burden.
Stepping down onto Polish soil means safety for them but also sadness for their lives left behind.
Many families have been split up: mainly women and children are arriving in Poland; the men have stayed home to fight.
Arriving in Przemyśl on the Poland-Ukraine border, they tell Euronews about how their lives have been turned upside down by the invasion, forcing them to flee with little more than the clothes they are wearing.
They also bear the emotional scars of seeing war come to the neighbourhoods and are quick to warn the rest of the world about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"I want to say, so that the whole world, will know: Putin is the aggressor," Liuba, a refugee from Kyiv, told Euronews.
"Innocent people are dying. Tanks are shooting everywhere. A young girl, 18 yrs old is standing there with a machine gun. It’s horrible. Tanks in the city. Everywhere. People are wearing military uniforms. The son of one of my classmates left. We don’t know every evening if he will return.
"Tomorrow he will be in Europe. Stop him. He will come to Europe. He can’t stop himself. We have to stop him. Help. People are dying. It’s true. People are dying. Even small children. I don’t want this. I want to go home. I want to go back to Kyiv, to my apartment. I don’t want to go anywhere."
Alina Kosinska is a dentist from Zaporizhzhia, home to Europe's biggest nuclear plant, which was reportedly shelled by Russian forces.
"I’m very scared about my home, and I hope that Europe and the whole world would help and stop this," she told Euronews.
“I lost my home, I lost my normal life, I had a job there, and now I had to run
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