UKRAINE. Krakovets, Lviv Oblast. 05 March 2022. Kostian Starchenko, 29, waits for hours with his dog among thousands of Ukrainians in a long queue to cross the border into Poland despite the cold weather.

More than 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed the border into neighboring countries since the Russian invasion on 24th February, including 142,300 on Sunday according to the UN refugee agency data.