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Since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine, 10 million Ukrainians — about a quarter of the population — have been displaced, and about four million have fled the country.
Iryna Baramidze is one of them. From a middle-class neighborhood of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, she has been married to her husband for 12 years and has an 11 year-old son, Yuri.
Over three weeks, our producer Clare Toeniskoetter followed Iryna as she made an impossible choice.
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After meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Poland last week, President Biden called Vladimir Putin “a butcher.”
As Ukrainians flood into Poland, the travel industry has become part of an effort to supply transportation, accommodation and more to the refugees.
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