Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, more than 115,000 refugees have crossed into Poland, the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Saturday. Anyone from Ukraine is allowed entry, even those who do not hold valid passports, Polish officials said.
dozens of men and women who spent the night in parking lots, waiting for their loved ones to arrive.
Poland is expecting to help as many as five-million people in the weeks ahead.
But crowds at checkpoints are so large, it could take people three days to be processed.
Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi reports from Przemysl, in eastern Poland.
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it interesting that now Poland likes the smell of Ukrainian people but not the smell of Syrian people who spend more than 2 weeks in cold weather in Belarus and Poland border.
Because Syrian are social and economic refugees, they dont like to work, dont asimilate etc etc…
Dude,there is a difference between innocent refugees being thrown at us by Russia and innocent Ukrainians who are fleeing the war which Russia made.
You’re trying to flip the sides.
Both are the cause of Russia.
All tho those people need help,we can’t provide it,If we would let them in Russia would just send more of them.
if you dont see a difference betwine people on legal crossings and people who try to cross borders illigaly thats your problem
Great and Strong Country. a dignified country whose people struggle for independence and are not afraid of the threat of the colonizing countries…even if death is in sight
I really dont like our current goverment,but i respect so much what they are doing to help ukrainian brothers.
for such ,,war times,, like these thats the best goverment so far
Okay, the war is really bad. But that young guy has five sons already?
And the Africans are stranded because these countries are racists
Dude.
As a pole,we dont know what is happening at the border and why goverment is not letting in black people.
Its not our fault.
Poland has a very long and rich history of being anti slavery and with helping slaves in revolutions.
Haiti exists today just because the polish army which was sent by Napoleon to stop the revolution helped slaves.
In us civil war we were helping on democratic side,General Kościuszko, a polish man has a statue of him in USA for the things he has done to slaves.
@TheVergilEvo @TheVergilEvo Poland has a long history of anti slavery really? That’s. Ajoke right, do you not see what your people have done in south Africa, and I dought about helping Haiti if your people did they did it benefiting something not just cuz they felt bad. Plans is a racist nation all of eu. And western world is a racist nation. The whole world hates dark skinned people don’t even have to be African. Having a darken shade seen as bad since that’s what your people toughtt the whole world
Polska took in 200,000 refugees from Ukraine in three days. At the Germany blocked EU money to Poland to help these peoples. Typical German morality.
Because of Nord Stream pipeline. They are afraid of no natural gas supplies
Sprawdź źródła. Inaczej na debila, albo ruskiego trolla wyjdziesz.
Why won’t anyone from Al Jazeera go to DPR and listen to those fleeing Russia and ask them “Why?” What are you afraid you might find out?
Every story has 2 sides. This is their part of the “story”. Their lives. But as long as you don’t cover the other part of the “story”, the lives of others, this will just keep going on and on.
Why won’t you go to DPR or LPR? If there is nothing to see there… Go there to at least prove it. But let me warn you, what you find, might change EVERYTHING you believed.
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You are one of those who belive that Putins “peace forces” went to Ukrain to free them from natzi goverment?
interesting hte difference between Ukrainian refugees and Syria nad Iraqi refugees racism perhaps?
Look at the map…then ask yourself this question again.
Por favor, soy necesitas pasaporte asistencia. Mi primera obtener holandes pasaporte. Soy tiene un trabajo en rijkswsterstaat
The doomsday clock keeps getting closer to midnight
The poor refuge from other countries they almost kill them
I’m sorry but tou are very stupid, naive person. Or Moscow troll. Illegal, economical immigrants sent by putin to make some mess in Europe and then attack and the real war escaping poor people of Ukraine are not the same…
BUILD THAT WALL BLOCK EUROPEAN REFUGEES FROM COMING INTO THE US
You’re the reason why no one likes americans.
SZACH MAT! Game over RUSSIA!
Nothing but propaganda
*Nothing but your shittalk*
“Russia will pay for this and what is yet to come.” Meanwhile, keep praying, for that is good to God.
GOD IS WITH U, EVIL WILL NOT TRIUMP OVER GOOD, GOD WILL PROTECT U , THE AGGRESORS WILL NOT BE VICTORIOUS FOR GOD IS W/ UKRAINIAN PEOPLE
God caused this, don’t bring religion into this, but yes, glory to Ukraine.
I sleep nicely nowdays and you can know the why..
Give your kids to your grandparents and go back and fight… Men and woman.
Good Job America
Shamefull Activity doing by Russia
*don’t accept muslim refugees 😭😭*
Nigerian*
As a pole i can say we dont really know what is happening right now there and we want to let them in but goverment or people at the border don’t want to do it for some reason.
the russians just let the polish border wide open… can’t understand
all the weapons that are causing them a hard time is coming in from there
What can they do? They can’t even do a Blitzkrieg effectively against poor, small country. They can’t afford war with NATO now. Attacking Polish border=war with NATO. And China would probably be very displeased. In a III World War they would have to pick a side. I don’t think they are ready yet.
How do you know ? Looks like you are better inform then Russians , you are a genius , you should apply for CIA , KGB or Mosad
Millions of lives are at stake only because they look white; millions of lives at stake in Africa, but no ones cares because they aren’t white.
America knows they arw safe thats why they dn care
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There South Africans and other African countries in the border of Poland. We would really appreciate if the UN and Poland would assist them to enter. To all the South Africans in Poland please assist other African. What is happening is really frustrating and heartbreaking.
@M Kot I am fully aware of that it’s your country hence we are pleading for humanity. It is a suprise that in this century there is racism while there are important things to worry about. It’s only narrow minded people
Haven’t you seen that on border with Ukraine 99% are women with children, men have stayed in country to bravely fight with Russian. Unfortunately most of African and middle East immigrants on border of EU are coward who fled their countries. Also we have right to preserve our culture and society from danger.
@M Kot in fact i noticed that all women children. As albanain a said the same for albanian people from kosovo to my english friends, that they were all women and children, not like today’s , they called me racist and islamofobic,being catholic. But were true facts 🤔
@shebsheb 8 “YeAh, YoUr Ch0iCe BaSeD oN y0uR bLaTaNt RaCiSm”…. bet you thought you sounded smart saying that nonsense, didn’t you 🤡🤡🤡🤡. Next time, look up the DEFINITION of racism so you actually know what it means instead of sounding like a kid saying it.
Before you can conclude that all Africans flee to Europe can’t you inspect their visas and see why were they there in the first place.
There is no South African who fled South Africa, they all came there legally whether to study or work.
We have students in South Africa from Europe. Should we say they fled Europe to South Africa, we have workers from Europe too.
These people are passing by. They are not there to stay. How will that affect your society or culture?
Poland has an embassy here in South Africa yet you think every African in your boarders have flee
The men left to fight for they country i respect them. So do you expect African and middle east to stay and fight for Ukrainians.
We have our own wars to fight we have not seen one European men saying let me carry a gun and fight for Sudan, Syria or Iraq. When are you leaving Poland to fight along Ukrainians? They are your neighbors after all.
Please ALL THE WORLD PRAY FOR UKRAINE !!!
I have no words😭😭😭
save ukraine
I hope Polland train women flying aircraft for defense so they can help in the warfare.
Yeah Poland is really helping with the conflict right now.
I hope you take your medicine so it can help in warfare against your mental illnes
What proud people Ukrainian’s are, such a beautiful Nation and a beautiful place to visit, but now they are memories and I honoured to have a lot of friends from Ukraine. You have shown the World the meaning of COURAGE and ONE NATION standing together.
Al Jazeera loves Poland now, but we were killers few months ago when we refused entry to illegal middle east economic migrants 🙂 The top level of hypocrisy achieved. Well done Al Jazeera!
The economic migrants from the middle east were used as pawns to create tension and give Putin a reason to possibly create a conflict with Poland, that’s quite obvious now. Al Jazeera’s “brilliant” journalism was quick to smother the Polish government.
Actual people fleeing war. Unlike those who are allowed entry from crossing the Mediterranean sea. The media are scum.
@Ines Riddle You’re not wrong but Europe needs no outside help in destabilising itself. It does that very well already from within because of liberals and other subverters who we may not mention.
@R Dziekan Brown and black migrants are used as a political tool. A divided people are easy to control in a true multiracial society. It also eliminates the possibility of true nationalism ever gaining hold.
Al Jazeera is a network from Quatar, rich, Muslim, Arab country. Why won’t they take refugees from other Muslim countries themselves? Because Arabs hate other Arabs and they care only about money and luxury life. They should STFU.
Poland takes refugees,not terrorists.
@shebsheb 8 i can not be racist,I am mexican.
@El Mikis Lol, Mexicans can’t be racist?
No
@El Mikis Of course they can
@El Mikis 🤣
Wow, it is that simple for Ukrainians to get away into Poland but won’t let any refugees from Belarus come in, why is that they are also refugees going to Belarus to get to Poland where it is safer, why aren’t Poland getting there military out like they did before? Poland just wants to look good in this circumstance as it is Ukrainian refugees so their lives are apparently worth more than the refugees form other conflict countries such as Iraq who they let die in the cold forests over Belarus, disgusting standards, and before you say why don’t those refugees go to neighbouring countries, well they do but they get killed and tormented by the neighbouring country, furthermore the west invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and support Israel’s bombs over Palestine, which is also on my point on why didn’t Jews from Europe go to Spain or other parts of Europe as refugees? Why did they go to the Middle East in Asia? It is quite Hippocratic of them don’t you say, saying how people in war torn countries have to go to neighbouring countries, when the west literally invaded their country’s and destroyed them, with no opportunity, so western countries are obligated to let them in, but no they aren’t allowed only Ukrainians, because this time Russia invaded, but isn’t that also justified then, they are bringing in their version on democracy like the USA did to Iraq and Afghanistan, which they also bombed thousands of innocent civilians and instead of getting confronted about this, all they said these strikes were was a MISTAKE, well then 911 was also a mistake just some planes that didn’t know where they were, this sound very dumb doesn’t it, just like the west’s reaction to things.
DUDE YOU SPOKE SO MUCH, and somehow it means litteraly NOTHING.
Refugees from belarus are just innocent people used as a weapon by Russia.
Russia litteraly took them to belarus and told that Poland is going to take them.
Russia is using innocent people who want a better life as a weapon to make the region unstable.
Poland can’t just take them because its going to make region unstable AF and it would be just a sign to Putin that he can send more and more of those people and Poland wont react.
Poland is just defending its borders.
Your whole speach is just a shittalk of things that dont even exist or manipulated emotionaly filled “facts”.
Your speach on middle east is even bigger shittalk.
One word- whataboutism.
I dont agree with things which USA done in middle east but it litteraly means nothing to *europeans*
Dude is really searching for arguments so desperately that he talks about 9/11 being fake…
Its just sad.
@TheVergilEvo a life is a life
This guy is already fled to Poland. What a joke🤥🤢🤮
You want him to stay and die?
The Ukrainians will prevail and they will return to their homeland. Invasions never last and are doomed to failure. Stand strong Ukraine!!!
I thought men weren’t allowed to leave?
They aren’t. Ukrainians (men) that live in Poland go back to fight to the Ukraine. That’s why they are at the border. They also can walk their families to the border (sometimes even kids have to cross alone, because mother already is in Poland).
If the same would happen to Turkey, no one would help that much.
I dont think so, no diference Ukraine or Turkey
Btw, Turkey is too strong for Putin , he would never dare to atack Turkey
ok now they can inderstand the pain of syrian people who want shelter in there country and they denied!! God save innocent people.
Useless able man running away. Cowards! Your country needs u. Go pickup guns and fight against russia
Why is there a line? Let them through!
Problems with computer systems on Ukraine side. They have to do everything by hand – takes time.
@Ines Riddle what a stupid excuse! Open to all and let them in! NATO caused all things!
There is a line on Ukrainian side not Polish, Poland takes them without visas , valid passports .
Poland wouldn’t accept Muslim refugees 4 months ago…blasted them with water canons…Poland only likes white refugees.
The woman with teddy bears for children was genius:-)
Dziękuję Polsko.
Real refugees are warmly welcomed to Poland. The queen of Poland is the blessed mother of Mary here!
Why did you not accept black Ukrainians
@Awoke Awoke Because there’s no “black Ukrainians” 😉 People with other skin colour than white are double checked. That’s all.
@Maciek Szymanski lol
Poland will be bombed soon💣🤣🤣🤜
@Maciek Szymanski <--Please everyone, leave his comment up, don't report it, the world needs to see what kind of people they really are.
My husband is from Ukraine and I’m from Poland but we live in United States.
My husbands parents, sister with 2 small children, aunts, uncles, cousins and a lot of his friends live in Ukraine and we are devastated by this war.
Watching it unfold in front of our eyes on TV, and knowing that he can’t help or protect them in any way, breaks my heart 😭 My husband is tough and never shows his weak side but I have never ever seen him so inconsolable, hopeless, emotional, worried and just low-spirited ! We have pleated with his parents and his sister to leave Ukraine and go to Poland for their safety but they said they are staying and protecting there homes 😭😭
We pray for the safety and health of not only his family’s but also everyone else’s who lives in Ukraine 🙏
The ladies, children and old age family members should leave and fit young men remain there and do whatever they can to protect their homeland. Praying for peaceful and happy mankind all over the world.
May greed, revenge, suspects, jealousy and cruelty be eliminated.
Tell your husband that he is lucky enough in a sense that his family is brave and hopefully they will be favoured by fortune.
@Awoke Awoke How can you say that all Americans and Europeans invaded and destroyed Iraq and Africa? Those are the incompetent rulers and the authorities who ruined the peaceful world. Majority of Americans and Europeans are against the war and extremism.
And all of this for what? You think you’re the only one, go talk to family not the internet!
@Imran Akbar Well said .
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amazing to see how many young able men are fleeing???? weren’t all able men supposed to stay and fight?
Many men? 80% of Ukrainian refugees are women and children. Yesterday they showed than most men and also women decided to come back and fight while leaving their loved ones in Poland, Hungary and Germany. Before commenting do a little more insight
where do you see all these men? apart from that sometimes a person might only appear “able”
I have the worst military category because of my eyesight (one eye practically doesn’t work), so I am treated as unable to fight
In US And IRAK war US killed more than 15000 innocent people in first day of war but Russia war of 72 hour just killed 180 people. Think twice Russia’s aim not killing they are on war to change the political situation
Looks like there is plenty of men under age 65 avoiding the mandatory draft
Smells like racism.
does any one remembers black and browm migrants stopped at Polish border?
@KaczorPL what part of immigrant rejected as refugee you do not understand, please go to middle east or africa to wars controled by Isis or Boko Haram, then ask asylum to Poland and Baltic states, to be rejected as s tourist opportunist.
@Mauricio villela nava Nobody will be rejected when they go to the border crossing, only those who want to cross it illegally! Everyone, without exception, had the opportunity to enter Poland through the border crossing,
@KaczorPL they will go at the border crossing and will be rejected, of course they are mafia across europe that offers illegal border cross for some money exchange but is the result of migrant desperation.
If you’re not african, muslim or arab you are not gonna get it, some of the EU countries lie about immigration policy
@Mauricio villela nava If they go to the borders it will turn out whether they will be rejected, if they have to fear anything, they can choose a different path. A lot of people from other nationalities live, work and study with us, and somehow no one has a problem. It is like in every house, you invite guests to your place, they have to obey some rules and it works the same when entering another country. I will not comment on other countries.
The same Poland closed the border for Muslim migrants. Western Hypocrisy.
120.000 in Romania last 72h
REAL refugees!!
Praying for Ukrainian people.
UKRAINE LAND WILL BE BATTLEFIELD
I thought USA have three thousand troops in there
America, Germany, the United Kingdom and NATO have hired people. They take those people to the streets and play in the name of humanity. They have filled their media with lies and rumours. They don’t want peace, they want the war to continue. Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly talked about talks before the start of the war. But instead of allowing this NATO to negotiate, rumors and lies have spread. They have taken Ukraine to war and moved away from their positions. Now when they see Russia and Ukraine negotiate, they want to give ukraine arms and money.
It is clearly understood that NATO has ruined the head of the President of Ukraine in their own interest. On the one hand, they want to completely destroy Ukraine and on the other hand, they want to disrupt Russia’s development. But NATO does not know that they have adopted the wrong politics. Get back to the path of peace. Be it nationalism and humanity, stop the war for the sake of the world. Stop polluting the environment. No one will survive a war with nature.
These refugees know how to cross the border, legally and on the border crossings.
Ok, bomb Putin. But when the US and NATO bombs the Middle East, what? They are heroes?
Same picture like when USA attack and destroyed Vietnam, Avganistan, Iraq, Syria, Yugoslavia…
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Lool they’ll take refugees from Ukraine with no complaint😂😂
Since when and why Al Jazeera are reporting from my country and care about Europe?!
No black no arab or Asian allowed in to Poland .
Не дайте российским агрессорам отнять суверенитет вашей страны
Too bad they are abusing Indians and africans at the border.Ukraine soldiers and Poland not letting them in.
Poland is not Ukraine … Poles do not dislike people of colour or different religions … this is a Western Europe history .Poles only hates Russians government. Polish people would rather die that surrender to Russians. British people were not impacted like Poles during WW2 . Poles did not forget….
100% true
This is what when you have impotent leadership whio is puppet of bastards (USA, UK).
It is obvious that these peo[ple are treated better than the Syrian refugees.
Welcome to our country! I wish the best to you all. Glory to Ukraine!
What a contrast to the refugees came from Belarus 😁😁
American dirty politics can’t understand of European countries , it’s a Ravish politics
Only America is the responsible for this war but Europe can’t understand
Putin = war criminal and terrorist!!!! World contries you should remember about this.
Yet they won’t board the black people in these trains or buses having kids freeze to death ! Racist !
So all those able body men in this video are waiting for their family’s while all the real men stayed and fought for their country. Yeah wait till the fighting stops then return home way to go pus.
Check how Ukrainian refugees are only women and children, totally different to the “refugees” from Middle East or Afghanistan that leave their women and kids behind when they escape in masses of men to the West 😀😀😀
Slava Ukraina! We are with you. Jesteśmy z wami. 🇵🇱🖤🇺🇦
What about Africa’s that school in Ukraine
Praying for the children in Yemen and Syria.
Does not make sense for Ukraine to exempt able bodied females without children from protecting their country. Well at least they are protesting bravely in the safety of where they fled to.
Thank you Poland! 🙏🏻 You are filled with Beautiful people. I ❤️ your country
Putin🖐
HOW COME THE UK GOT ALL THE BLACK UKRANIANS?