A year after Russia’s invasion, many displaced people are struggling to earn an income – and their Polish shelters will soon start charging them to stay
Svetlana Serdiuk never thought she’d still be living in a refugee shelter in Warsaw nearly a year after fleeing from her home in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, with her 83-year-old mother.
The Expo centre’s shelter opened last March in what the government hoped would be a temporary response to the waves of desperate Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion. But more than 800 people continue to live here and Expo is one of dozens of shelters still operating across the country, which has taken in around 1.5 million Ukrainians.
Ms. Kostrub, shown with dog Monya, is conflicted about whether to go to Germany or stay here and help other displaced people. The Ptak Warsaw Expo houses more than 800 refugees and is being expanded to accommodate more. The rest of the facility is still open to events and this indoor amusement park. Nataliya Dmytrenko, 38, came to Warsaw last March from Mariupol with four of her children. Her oldest son, who is 19, had to stay in Ukraine and lives with friends in another part of the country.
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