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A makeshift chapel in the bomb shelter nuns have prepared to take shelter in when air raids go off, at the Hoshiv Women's Monastery, where nuns have been taking in internally displaced people fleeing the war, in Ivano-Frankivsk region, western Ukraine, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Mattresses, blankets and benches also line the basement. But even when there are no sirens, children happily use the cavernous underground space. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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Ukrainian nuns open their monastery doors to the displaced
By RENATA BRITO - Associated Press
Mon,04/11/22-1:55AM , 315 Reads
HOSHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Beneath the ancient beech forests of the Carpathian Mountains, a quiet monastery in the western Ukrainian village of Hoshiv has transformed itself into a giant playground for a dozen children who've been displaced by the war with their families.
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Olga Okhrimenko, 34 years-old, who fled the Russian invasion from Kharkiv on March 1, holds her dog Knolly as they sit inside a ballroom converted into a makeshift refugee shelter, in Suceava, Romania, Friday, March 4, 2022. At 4-star hotel & spa some 50 km from the border with Ukraine, wedding parties and conferences have been canceled and the ballroom converted into a makeshift refugee shelter where those who have escaped the Russian invasion come to rest and warm up before continuing their journey. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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At Romania hotel, ballroom welcomes refugees fleeing Ukraine
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Mon,03/07/22-1:52AM , 177 Reads
SUCEAVA, Romania (AP) — As Olga Okhrimenko walked into a bustling ballroom-turned-refugee shelter at a four-star Romanian hotel, her corgi, Knolly, strained at the leash anxiously seeking the warmth inside. It had taken them three days to flee Ukraine by car, bus and taxi in the bitter cold.
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Refugees fleeing conflict from neighboring Ukraine arrive to Zahony, Hungary, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. As hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians seek refuge in neighboring countries, cradling children in one arm and clutching belongings in the other, leaders in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania are offering a hearty welcome. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi, File)

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Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees — others, less so
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Mon,02/28/22-1:24AM , 191 Reads
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — They file into neighboring countries by the hundreds of thousands — refugees from Ukraine clutching children in one arm, belongings in the other.
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The sister, who refused to show and identify, of a woman imprisoned in Turkey is silhouetted during an interview with The Associated Press in Paris, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Shatz and a team of European lawyers filed a case against Greece at the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of a 32-year-old French woman who accuses the Hellenic country of forcibly pushing her back across the border from Greece to Turkey, where she claims she is a victim of political persecution. The woman, who is also a Turkish national, was subsequently arrested and jailed. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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From Turkish jail, French woman accuses Greece of 'pushback'
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Fri,02/18/22-3:07AM , 231 Reads
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A French woman accused Greek authorities Friday of forcing her and other migrants back across the border into Turkey, violating her rights both as a person fleeing persecution and as a European citizen.
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