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Kasia Piasecka is a Warsaw-based journalist covering anti-discrimination and solidarity movements in Poland.
Millions of Ukrainians have fled to Poland since the Russian war began. Many have become embroiled in the vast illegal care-work economy – adding exploitation to the trauma of fleeing their homes.
More than two million refugees have fled the war in Ukraine for Poland in the last month. In Warsaw, they have been met by a self-organised solidarity movement involving thousands of volunteers.
At the Polish border town of Przemyśl, hundreds of thousands of refugees have arrived since the start of the war in Ukraine. We spoke to them about their stories.