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EMERGENCY ALERT
More than 1.7 million people have fled Ukraine. Send your support for families in Ukraine and 40+ countries.


Tens of thousands of people continue to stream across the Ukraine border as freezing temperatures and snowy weather add to an already difficult journey for families fleeing the escalating violence.

The stories of several Ukrainian families, as told to Mercy Corps’ response teams, reveal the extent of the humanitarian catastrophe. Please take a moment to read their stories and send your urgent support for people in Ukraine and in dozens of countries where violence and poverty threaten lives and livelihoods ▸
     
"The queue at the border with Poland is 15 kilometers long. All the hotels are overcrowded, there is nowhere to stay. We asked a local resident, a saleswoman in a store, to stay overnight, she sheltered our large family. I burst into tears when she said that she would not take the money. My little son mutters in a dream ‘I want to go back to my Kyiv.’"
 
OXANA*, 38 YEARS OLD, WHO ESCAPED WITH HER FAMILY FROM KYIV TO ROMANIA
 
Poland
Refugees in search of safety after fleeing the conflict in neighboring Ukraine
     
"The kindergarten in Chernihiv where I went when I was a small boy was shelled today. My parents’ house, where I lived for 24 years, is burning now."
 
VALERY* FROM CHERNIHIV, 42 YEARS OLD, WHO EVACUATED HIS FAMILY FROM UKRAINE
 
Poland
Refugees from Ukraine wait outside near the border of Ukraine and Poland.
     
"We are staying at home. Everything is closed, including my clinic, I cannot get the next round of chemotherapy. We hear shots and explosions at night. Everyone who could leave, have left. We are just praying."
 
LUDMYLA*, 46 YEARS OLD, WHO REMAINED IN KYIV WITH HER SMALL DAUGHTER AND OLDER MOTHER
 
These are just three voices among millions of Ukrainians seeking warmth and safety amid an escalating conflict. We’ll continue to share stories from families experiencing this catastrophe firsthand, along with updates from Mercy Corps team members responding at the border and in Ukraine.

If you’d like to help, please contribute whatever you can to support Mercy Corps’ humanitarian response in Ukraine and around the world ▸
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We appreciate your response in this urgent moment and in the months ahead. We’ll have more updates to come.

– The Mercy Corps team

*Names have been changed for security.