About a year after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, eight million refugees scattered throughout Europe await the end of the nightmare.

More than a million and a half of them have found shelter in Poland. There they continue to live in makeshift humanitarian aid centers, missing their homes and, in many ways, their loved ones. And it is that the war has separated thousands of families and has broken their morale.

Spain has welcomed 166,000 refugees. Among them is Natalia Khlemova, who arrived in Toledo in March with her three children. “My father was 62 years old when the war began and he decided to stay to defend the country from him,” she explained to laSexta. Send all the help from Spain that can to those who stayed.

Viktoria Kovlalenko doesn’t even have that consolation left. Her husband and eldest daughter were victims of the Russian bombs. She was able to escape to the United Kingdom with her other daughter, little Varvara, and together they are safe from projectiles, but not from memories. “I have obsessive thoughts, fears or just tired from everything I experienced,” she confesses. There, in the United Kingdom, 161,000 refugees have arrived.

Almost a fifth of the Ukrainian population has fled the country. They are all victims of the exodus that almost a year ago filled the roads with caravans of people fleeing the horror of war.

In this context, the UN has asked the international community 5.220 million euros in aid humanitarian aid for the more than 15 million people who have been directly or indirectly affected by the military escalation unleashed in Ukraine.