Yelena Kleban’s life was turned upside down in a matter of minutes when Russian bombs fell near her hometown of Lviv, but the Ukrainian refugee says the welcome she has received in Poland is beyond her expectations.
“We have everything, really everything, even too much stuff,” Kleban said sitting amid boxes of food in the kitchen of a villa in Podkowa Lesna, a leafy suburb of the Polish capital, Warsaw. “The people here are amazing, so generous, we didn’t expect so much sympathy.”
Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have traveled by car, taxi, bus, train and even foot to make the 70km