Ukrainian refugee Svitlana Skibina, 62, who is from Kharkiv, lights a candle as she attends mass at an Orthodox Church in Warsaw, Poland, February 12, 2023. Skibina left Kharkiv last April with her disabled husband, her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Before living in Warsaw, worked in a library at a medical college. But there are few options for her in Poland. "For the first two months I had a terrible depression, I didn't want anything. I only wanted to go home," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Ukrainian refugee Svitlana Skibina, 62, who is from Kharkiv, attends mass at an Orthodox Church in Warsaw, Poland, February 12, 2023. Skibina left Kharkiv last April with her disabled husband, her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Before living in Warsaw, worked in a library at a medical college. But there are few options for her in Poland. "For the first two months I had a terrible depression, I didn't want anything. I only wanted to go home," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko, 82, from Kyiv, reads a book in her room at the Armada retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland February 10, 2023. A year ago, she was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in the retirement home, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads Ukrainian and Russian classics and memorises poems or walks down the narrow corridors on her crutches to keep herself busy as the days slowly tick by. Her thoughts constantly drift back to Ukraine where she lived all her life and raised her family. "I'm old, I want to die there (in Kyiv). Now I don’t know where I will die," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A physiotherapist helps Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko, 82, from Kyiv, during a rehabilitation session at the Armada retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland February 10, 2023. A year ago, Melnichenko was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in the retirement home, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads Ukrainian and Russian classics and memorises poems or walks down the narrow corridors on her crutches to keep herself busy as the days slowly tick by. Her thoughts constantly drift back to Ukraine where she lived all her life and raised her family. "I'm old, I want to die there (in Kyiv). Now I don’t know where I will die," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko, 82, from Kyiv, looks through a window as she pedals a small training bicycle during a rehabilitation session at the Armada retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland February 10, 2023. A year ago, she was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in the retirement home, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads Ukrainian and Russian classics and memorises poems or walks down the narrow corridors on her crutches to keep herself busy as the days slowly tick by. Her thoughts constantly drift back to Ukraine where she lived all her life and raised her family. "I'm old, I want to die there (in Kyiv). Now I don’t know where I will die," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Svitlana Skibina, 62, from Kharkiv, reads on her mobile as she attends attends a Polish language class in the LIFE centre run by the Pentecostal church in Warsaw, Poland, February 9, 2023. Skibina left Kharkiv last April with her disabled husband, her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Before living in Warsaw, worked in a library at a medical college. But there are few options for her in Poland. "For the first two months I had a terrible depression, I didn't want anything. I only wanted to go home," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Serhij Skibin, 62, husband of Ukrainian refugee Svitlana Skibina, 62, from Kharkiv, sits on the bed at their rented apartment in Warsaw, Poland, February 9, 2023. Skibina left Kharkiv last April with her disabled husband, her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Before living in Warsaw, worked in a library at a medical college. But there are few options for her in Poland. "For the first two months I had a terrible depression, I didn't want anything. I only wanted to go home," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, from Slabozhensky, travels by tram with her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin (not pictured), 9, to their apartment in Krakow, Poland, February 2, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko, 82, from Kyiv, walks with crutches to the communal living room at the Armada retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland February 2, 2023. A year ago, she was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in the retirement home, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads Ukrainian and Russian classics and memorises poems or walks down the narrow corridors on her crutches to keep herself busy as the days slowly tick by. Her thoughts constantly drift back to Ukraine where she lived all her life and raised her family. "I'm old, I want to die there (in Kyiv). Now I don’t know where I will die," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova (2nd-R), 62, from Slabozhensky, plays Monopoly at a meeting organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 1, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, from Slabozhensky, sits in a room in her rented apartment in Krakow, Poland, February 1, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko, 82, from Kyiv, gets up from her wheelchair as her daughter Oksana Chernenko, 43, who works as a teacher’s assistant, helps her at a retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland January 24, 2023. A year ago, Melnichenko was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in the retirement home, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads Ukrainian and Russian classics and memorises poems or walks down the narrow corridors on her crutches to keep herself busy as the days slowly tick by. Her thoughts constantly drift back to Ukraine where she lived all her life and raised her family. "I'm old, I want to die there (in Kyiv). Now I don’t know where I will die," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova (3rd-L), 62, who is from Slabozhensky, sits with others during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova (L), 62, who is from Slabozhensky, smiles as her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin, 9, looks at a lark she made from string, during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. Larks, a symbol of spring, are made to decorate houses in some parts of Ukraine during Stritennia, which celebrates the meeting of winter and spring. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova (R), 62, from who is from Slabozhensky, shows a lark she made from string, during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. Larks, a symbol of spring, are made to decorate houses in some parts of Ukraine during Stritennia, which celebrates the meeting of winter and spring. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova (2nd-R), 62, who is from Slabozhensky, shows a traditional bird she made from string, during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. Larks, a symbol of spring, are made to decorate houses in some parts of Ukraine during Stritennia, which celebrates the meeting of winter and spring.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, who is from Slabozhensky, takes a traditional Polish donut during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, who is from Slabozhensky, packs her backpack, which was the only baggage she took from Ukraine when she fled to Poland, during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko, 82, from Kyiv, walks with crutches during a rehabilitation session at the Armada retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland February 10, 2023. A year ago, she was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in the retirement home, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads Ukrainian and Russian classics and memorises poems or walks down the narrow corridors on her crutches to keep herself busy as the days slowly tick by. Her thoughts constantly drift back to Ukraine where she lived all her life and raised her family. "I'm old, I want to die there (in Kyiv). Now I don’t know where I will die," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A physiotherapist helps Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko, 82, from Kyiv, lay down to exercise during a rehabilitation session at the Armada retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland February 10, 2023. A year ago, Melnichenko was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in the retirement home, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads Ukrainian and Russian classics and memorises poems or walks down the narrow corridors on her crutches to keep herself busy as the days slowly tick by. Her thoughts constantly drift back to Ukraine where she lived all her life and raised her family. "I'm old, I want to die there (in Kyiv). Now I don’t know where I will die," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Svitlana Skibina, 62, from Kharkiv, shows a picture of her apartment sent to her from her friend Evgeniya Budyakova, who stayed in Kharkiv, at her rented apartment in Warsaw, Poland, February 9, 2023. Skibina left Kharkiv last April with her disabled husband, her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Before living in Warsaw, worked in a library at a medical college. But there are few options for her in Poland. "For the first two months I had a terrible depression, I didn't want anything. I only wanted to go home," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Svitlana Skibina, 62, from Kharkiv, reads on her mobile as she attends attends a Polish language class in the LIFE centre run by the Pentecostal church in Warsaw, Poland, February 9, 2023. Skibina left Kharkiv last April with her disabled husband, her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Before living in Warsaw, worked in a library at a medical college. But there are few options for her in Poland. "For the first two months I had a terrible depression, I didn't want anything. I only wanted to go home," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, walks with her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin, 9, after he finished school in Krakow, Poland, February 2, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, from Slabozhensky, travels by tram with her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin, 9, to their apartment in Krakow, Poland, February 2, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, from Slabozhensky, gives a meal to her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin, 9, after returning from his school in Krakow, Poland, February 2, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tamila Melnichenko (R), 82, from Kyiv, talks with her roommate at the Armada retirement home in Glogoczow, Poland February 2, 2023. A year ago, she was uprooted by the Russian invasion and now spends her days in the retirement home, longing for the life she had to leave behind. The former nurse reads Ukrainian and Russian classics and memorises poems or walks down the narrow corridors on her crutches to keep herself busy as the days slowly tick by. Her thoughts constantly drift back to Ukraine where she lived all her life and raised her family. "I'm old, I want to die there (in Kyiv). Now I don’t know where I will die," she said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.