This report provides an overview of the protection needs and risks faced by refugees from Ukraine coming to Poland after February 24, 2022. The data analysed in this report was collected during the Protection Monitoring (PM) conducted by the IRC in September, October, November and December 2023.

Imagine this: you’ve escaped persecution in your own country. You arrive somewhere new and you don’t’ know a soul. You don’t speak the language and you can’t even read the letters of the alphabet.

“I told my sons: ‘we are going on a boat – sailing to a beautiful island.’ I didn’t tell them that we might die, that we were playing with our lives that night.”

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