It's been five weeks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Imagine for a second you were transposed into the karmic driven world of Earl. Bomb, bloodshed, trauma. No school for children, no treatment facility for parents, no roof over people's heads in most parts of the country. Will you take the escape route? That's what ten million people have done, according to the United Nations.
Many have moved to other safer areas of Ukraine. But more than three and a half million people have crossed the border.
The majority of them are women and children, as men under the age of 60 are required by the Ukrainian government to stay in their respective territories and fight hard.
Homeless and unaware of their destination, refugees have no choice but to rely on strangers.
They have come out of the chaos of war, but the truth is that they are not completely safe even after leaving Ukraine.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Twitter: "Ukraine's war is not a tragedy for poachers and human traffickers. Rather, it is an opportunity. And women and children are being targeted. "
Human trafficking groups have been active in Ukraine and neighboring countries in peace. The war-torn atmosphere is more conducive to shining their business.
Carolana Weirszbinska, who is affiliated with the human rights organization Homo Fober, told me that there is a great deal of concern about children.
He said that many children have been forced to leave Ukraine without any relatives. Due to the lack of a formal registration system in the early days of the war, their whereabouts are unknown.
At a train station on the Polish-Ukrainian border, we saw volunteers delivering food to refugees. Everything seems to be fine, but it is not.
We met Margarita Hasmanov, a Ukrainian refugee. He is a little over 20 years old. She arrived at the border two weeks ago. They decided to stay here to prevent other refugees from falling into the wrong hands.
I asked them if they felt any danger here. "Yes, that's why I'm worried about others," he said.
"Women and children are here to escape the terrible war. They cannot speak Polish or English. They do not know what is happening, they just accept what they hear from others. Anyone can come to this station. When I started volunteering on the first day, I saw three men from Italy. He was looking for beautiful women for sex work.
"I called the police and my fears were confirmed. My fears were not unfounded. The situation is dire. "
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