Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska

New­com­ers feel blessed by kind­ness while Pol­ish hosts say they en­joy the ex­pe­ri­ence but could ben­e­fit from more sup­port.

Af­ter Uzbek­istan’s un­ex­pect­ed pro-Ukraine state­ment, an­a­lysts say tra­di­tion­al re­gion­al dy­nam­ics could be shift­ing.

While there is no short­age of gen­eros­i­ty in Ukraine’s Cen­tral Eu­ro­pean neigh­bour, space runs out in sev­er­al cities.

For years, Uzbeks trav­elled to Rus­sia in search of bet­ter lives. With the Ukraine con­flict, the trend is in re­verse.

An­a­lysts say Rus­sia’s re­pres­sion of Crimean Tatars in­di­cates like­ly tac­tics to­wards dis­sent in wider Ukraine.

As Rus­sia pounds Ukraine, many peo­ple dis­placed dur­ing 2014 con­flict are hav­ing to flee their homes for a sec­ond time.

About 800,000 refugees have crossed into Poland since the war in neigh­bour­ing Ukraine be­gan.

More than 450,000 fled to Poland af­ter it opened its bor­ders to any­one re­gard­less of na­tion­al­i­ty and doc­u­ments held.

Ukrain­ian vol­un­teers say they must re­turn home to fend off Rus­sia’s in­va­sion as they re­gret the war’s out­break.

Pol­ish gov­ern­ment says more than 115,000 Ukrain­ian refugees have crossed over, most from the main bor­der cross­ing of Me­dy­ka.