Animal shelter set up at Ukraine-Poland border

While refugees keep crossing into Poland from Ukraine, a German organisation has set up a shelter for pets stranded in the chaos of conflict. Sasha Winkler, a 35-year-old from the Winkler Aktiv organization, explained that the shelter is looking after animals left behind as well as street dogs in the shelter in the Polish town of Medyka by the Ukrainian border.

The organization is also gathering aid and then taking it to Lviv, where from they try and organize people who can drive them to smaller areas affected by crises to try and deliver food for the animals. More than 1.5 million refugees have arrived in Poland since the start of Russia's military operations on Feb. 24 — out of a total of around 2.7 million people that the United Nations say have fled so far.