MEDYKA, Poland: Five weeks after the start of the fighting in Ukraine, Kamil Prusinowski and his small band of volunteers are exhausted at their refugee shelter over the border in Poland.
More than 4 million Ukrainians have fled abroad since the start of what Russia calls its"special operation" in Ukraine, UN agencies say. "The people need help. The need is changing, but we need to be here and our organisation is struggling to get another team ," she said. A Polish government spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on requests for more state aid.Agencies at Medyka said they were trying to get more volunteers, so they could give existing workers more time off.
"People are coming with really critical needs that need to be addressed," Shabia Mantoo, spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency UNHCR, said.