Russia’s War on Ukraine Has Created Over 1 Million Refugees in Just a Week

MEDYKA, Poland—Within days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week, the line of cars carrying people fleeing to the country’s border with Poland was already 55 miles long.

In wet snow and cold rain, mothers began abandoning their cars to walk for hours, prodding exhausted children as they dragged their strollers and suitcases along the road.