At a bus and train depot in Rzeszow, Poland, about 100 km from Ukraine’s border, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Mélanie Joly, came to hear the stories of Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s bombs.
More often than not, for those she met, the tears came before any words.
One woman, sitting at a table in the train station across from her her two school-aged children, managed to introduce them to Joly as Danil and Margarita, but that’s as far as she got.
She began crying uncontrollably, unable to continue a conversation with the visitor who came to show Canada’s commitment to helping Ukrainians endure the Russian-inflicted catastrophe.
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