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A girl looks at portraits at the Alley of Fallen Heroes in a district of Kyiv on July 12, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [AFP]
Thousands of Ukrainian men in Poland face declining living standards and rising uncertainty, but going home means risking being sent to the front and death.
Ukrainian men who fled mobilisation to go to the neighbouring country are caught between politics and war -- and now face legal limbo.
On one end, Poland is toughening its policies on Ukrainian refugees. On the other, Kyiv is upping the pressure to mobilise more men, in the fifth year of Russia's invasion.
