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Return to Ukraine: will I recognise my own country?

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

‘You are safe here,’ says a sign at the railway station in Przemysl, less than ten miles from the Ukrainian border. The city was one of the first in Poland to open its doors to those fleeing the war – but I’m travelling through it in the opposite direction. Last year, I was one of 152,000 Ukrainian refugees to end up in Britain.

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