“What can you do when people tell you how they had to abandon their homes and their relatives overnight?” the photographer Rafał Milach said. “I can document it—to remember, so the images and words can resonate long after this nightmare is over.”
When the Polish photographer Rafał Milach took these pictures, on his country’s eastern border, the war in Ukraine was less than a week old. During that week, nearly a million people fled Ukraine, half a million of them escaping to Poland. It was freezing along the border. Before refugees crossed to safety, they endured delays of many hours, or even a few days: in cars, in trains, on foot. The first quality that stands out in these portraits is the exhaustion in people’s faces.
Cell phones feature in several shots. We are all attached to our devices, but the refugees I met clung to them, for they are a lifeline to news from home—and to ideas about where to go next. If the exodus from the war in Ukraine sometimes feels like a crisis ripped from the pages of twentieth-century history, it is also a distinctly modern one. Refugees are continually consuming social-media content about the conflict they are fleeing.
Sher Alkroi fled Kharkiv with his family. “I do not have a plan about where to go,” he said. “I don’t know if this will finish in a month, or two, or three.” In the Polish border city of Przemyśl, a temporary shelter has been established in the gymnasium of a local school.
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