The biggest refugee crisis europe has seen since the second world war. Andi in coped with in an exemplary manner, says economist Christopher lockwood. Poland is extremely concerned about russian expansionism and wants to do everything it can to help ucranians. As a tremendous sympathy towards ukranians, which i think wasn't quite present in syria,. which was seen as jus being a very long way away.
The war in Ukraine has created the greatest flux of refugees in Europe since the second world war. We visit Poland, where the response has been remarkably smooth, and a New York neighbourhood that is no stranger to émigrés from the region. And we consider the displaced who are largely overlooked: why are so many Russians exiling themselves in Turkey?
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