Medyka, Poland: After leaving Afghanistan a year ago, Ajmal Rahmani believed he had found a paradise of peace in Ukraine This week, he and his family had to escape again – this time for Poland with the voice of Russian bombs “I ran from one war, came to another country and another war began. Very bad fate,” said Rahmani immediately after crossing to Poland.
His seven-year-old daughter Marwa gripped a creamy soft toy dog because Rahmani spoke Together with Marwa, his wife Mina and Son Omar, 11, the family runs 30 kilometers last (19 miles) to the intersection on foot because Gridlock on the side of the Ukrainian border After arriving at Medyka on the Poland side, the family waited with other refugees for the bus that would take them to the nearest przemysl city.
Hundreds of thousands of people have escaped for four days of conflict to neighboring countries, especially Poland, Hungary and Romania While most of the refugees are Ukraine, including students and migrant workers from further, including Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Nepal.
‘I lost everything Rahmani, who was in his 40s, said he worked for NATO in Afghanistan for 18 years at Kabul Airport He decided to leave the country four months before US withdrawal because he received a threat and was very afraid he made his children out of school Before that “I have a good life in Afghanistan, I have a private home, I have a private car, I have a good salary,” Rahmani said.
“I sold my car, my house, everything. I lost everything,” he said But he added: “There is nothing better than my love, rather than my family’s life” Rahmani said he struggled to get a visa to leave Afghanistan and decided to go to Ukraine because it was the only country that would bring it They set up a house in Odessa – a black sea port city Four days ago, when Russia began an invasion to Ukraine, they had to leave everything again and travel 1,110 kilometers to the border.
The Polish authority said that almost 213,000 people had crossed into Poland from Ukraine since Thursday Rahmanani and her family, like everyone else without a Polish visa, now has 15 days to register, said Tomasz Pietrzak, a lawyer with the Ocalenie Foundation (Salvation), a charity for migrants.
The timeline could not be given numbers “Poland must quickly change the legislation on this problem,” he said Rahmani said he was worried about the future but was driven by a warm welcome he received from volunteers and officials who helped the flow of refugees on the side of the Polish border “They gave us energy,” he said.
