“All they want is to get home.”
“What is different is that with the 2020 repatriations the question was about how long it may take to get home, but with this, it's that people may not get home,” Richert said on Monday.
Those who have crossed the border so far just wanted to sleep. Richert expects the situation at Ukrainian borders to get worse as more people attempt to leave the country. “In one instance, someone said they were put in rooms with no ventilation for six to eight hours, others said they were held there for 12 hours without ventilation and not enough space for them to walk.”
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