24.02.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
Hours after Russias invasion into the Ukraine, solidarity protests formed all over the world with utter dismay over such a breach of international law. In Berlin the Ukrainian diaspora instantly called for a demonstration.
25.02.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
Thousands of protesters gathered in front of Berlin's Brandenburger Tor and the chancelors office to show their solidarity with the Ukraine.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Firemen from all over Poland came to the train station of Przemyśl to help Ukrainian refugees arriving here with a direct train connection from Lviv.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Evgeny and his friends arrived at Przemyśl from Egypt, where he works as a scuba diving teacher. They are rushing to the platforms, to catch the next train to the Ukraine, fighting for their homeland. None of them has military experience nor ever held a weapon.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Alina was in Istanbul when war took over in her homeland. The 27 year old Lviv resident is waiting on the train to see her child in Ukraine and showing me her child sitting in a makeshift bomb shelter.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
People from various countries hold signs and offer free rides to different locations in Poland, Germany and other western-european countries.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Volunteers help 24 hours a day to keep the flow of people running. A lot of these are still kids.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
The makeshift camp in the main hall of a train station where people arriving from Ukraine find a place to sleep.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Firefighters carry food packages to feed the refugees that arrive with the train from Lviv.
27.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Refugees arriving exhausted with buses from Medyka border at a makeshift collection point near a shopping mall in Przemysl.
27.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Volunteers unloading cars with donations at the Przemyśl train station.
27.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Refugees who arrived with the train from Lviv are waiting to continue to the immigration office and leave to other western cities.
27.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
The train that goes back to Lviv is packed with donations from all over Poland.
27.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
With help from young and old the Polish community shows an act of solidarity which was not seen in decades.
27.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Donations piling up at the parking lot of a mall in Przemyśl.
28.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Svetoslav, his seven year old brother Ivan and his mother Svetlana having lunch in Przemyśl school gym. The family woke up by the sound of the bombs that hit Kiev early in the morning and started their escape to Poland immediately. On their journey they saw a lot of devastation like burnt cars, houses and destructed infrastructure.
28.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Marcel, a 29 year old Kharkov based Business Administration student went 10 hours by train to Przemyśl. He tells me of POC discrimination on the Ukrainian border and confirms videos that were shown me by other refugees.
28.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Hamza, a 22 year old medicine student, resting with his fellows Abdelmoutalib and Ayoub, all from Dnipro, a city with a strong Marrocan diaspora. Unfortunately Hamza lost all documents from his university and fears that all his efforts irrecoverable.
28.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Rihab, also 22 years old Dnipro based student found its way to the school gym of Przemyśl. As she originates from Agadir, she was happy to find the marrocan »Dnipro-Boys« around Hamza. Next to her a prayer-rug hangs on the climbing frames of the gym.
28.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
The school gym of Przemyśl was activated as a refugee camp within a few hours and provides home to dozens of families from Ukraine.
28.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Angela, 36 swaying her toddler. Her family lives in Melitopol a picturesque town in the south-east of Ukraine 60km from Sea of Azov.
28.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Ukrainian passports next to other personal belongings and documents of a refugee family.
28.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Portrait of 12 year old Lina, which arrived Przemyśl with her grandma, mother and his brother Jaroslav.
Portrait of 33 year old Nikolai from Saporischschja, the sixth biggest city in Ukraine most famous for the soviet-era car factory. It is still an important industrial centre of the country.
Children playing while workers setting up basic infrastructure at the mall. In the next days this mall will become a central hub for thousands of refugees.
Medical equipment and medicine are the most needed goods in the Ukraine right know. A lot a hospitals are cut off from their usual supply and due to the high number of civilian and military casualties in great need.
A gym in Lviv was transformed into a makeshift camp, where refugees from central, southern and eastern Ukraine can rest for some days and get back to strength before continuing their journey to Poland and the EU countries.
Displaced persons are resting here next to sport equipment in a high rise gym with a panoramic view over the city of Lviv. Mattresses can be found next to running treadmills and spinning bikes.
On the walls you can see a lot of drawings made by the children that arrived here earlier. Some of them show weapons, Ukrainian and Russian flags, a christmas tree, one even depicted dead people and soldiers.
Portrait of ten year old Sascha and his mother Lila who escaped the pro Russian separatist area in Donetsk Oblast. After years of instability they want to find peace in another country.
Maxim, 32 is in the gym for two days and brought his so called hand-pan, a very relaxing and meditative-sounding instrument with him. He wants the people to relax to those very calm and quite melodies. All he carried from Kiev was his instrument and a small backpack.
A young boy watching cartoons on a smartphone under several signed jerseys of famous Ukraine sport teams.
Portrait of 38-year old Tanya and her eleven year old daughter Camilla. Both escaped from a village south-east of Kiew.
Young men carrying military boots to a waiting train at the main station of Lviv. The train will carry those goods to the besieged capital Kiev.
The temperatures in Lviv are barely above zero and a lot of people warm up at temporary and improvised fireplaces around the main station.
In front of the main station several NGO's offering help and offer from old military food equipment.
Children in the back of a DIY camping van of a volunteer who offers transports from Lviv to Poland three to four times a week. Older children and their mothers found a place on the floor of the van.
»Berliner Stadtmission« is an an independent association made up of around 1,000 full-time employees and 1,500 volunteers. New volunteers are registering at a container in front of the tent.
