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Ukraine: the departure of refugees, the arrival of fighters

Audio 7:30 p.m.

Ukrainians prepare to take a bus to Poland at the main train station in Lviv, western Ukraine, on Tuesday March 1, 2022. AP - Bernat Armangue

By: Frederique Lebel

2 mins

In the midst of the Ukrainian war, refugees continue to flock to neighboring countries, Poland, Romania or Moldova, while the humanitarian corridors set up by Moscow only half offer an exit door to Russia. and Belarus.

A million and a half refugees in ten days is unheard of.

They mostly arrive in Poland.  

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At the Polish border the arrival of international fighters

Diaspora Ukrainians and international volunteers who want to fight against Russian troops.

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, 20,000 mostly European fighters have already joined the Ukrainian army. 

 met some of them.

The Balkan Volunteers

In the Balkans, volunteers want to enlist to fight in Ukraine.

But the war divides the countries of the region: the Croats intend to defend Kiev while the Serbs take the side of Moscow.

We take stock with

, one of our correspondents in the region. 

The arrival of refugees in Germany

And, given the intensity of the fighting, Europe should expect to welcome five million refugees, already warns Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs. 

In a country like Germany, which was on the front line seven years ago to welcome a million Syrian refugees, the mobilization of volunteers is undeniable.

This was noted at the end of last week by our correspondent

The European eye of Franceline Beretti

And in its propaganda, the Russian regime declared that it wanted to protect the Russian minority in the east of the country, which would be the victim of a “genocide”.

A rewriting of history that no facts corroborate.

Because the Russian-speaking minorities are exploited in several States of Eastern Europe such as in Transnistria, separatist of Moldova, or in Georgia.

And yet this cohabitation between several languages, several nationalities exists in many regions in Europe.

More or less painfully, as

reminds us .

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