Recently we observed one year since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have crossed the Slovak border in search of a more peaceful life. In the following features we revisit the first days and weeks of the conflict.
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Out of more than 100,000 refugees around 29,000 Ukrainians, most of them women and children, have been granted temporary refugee status and are living in the Slovak capital. Ukrainian refugees currently make up more than 40 percent of the total number of foreigners in Bratislava. Meanwhile, the assistance centre on Bottova remains open on workdays, providing mainly administrative help.
In the previous minutes we heard how first ordinary people, then NGOs followed by local, national and international institutions responded to the sudden military crisis that affected Slovakia's eastern neighbour, Ukraine. Elena Seeber went to the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs to learn what Slovak diplomacy worked on in the past 12 months in reaction to the unprecedented war conflict. She spoke to Martin Kačo, Slovakia’s ambassador at large for Ukraine.
Martin Kačo interview Máte problém s prehrávaním? Nahláste nám chybu v prehrávači.
