On the day was broke out in Ukraine, the Times columnist and former foreign secretary William Hague observed that “what happened this morning is the most significant event in Europe since the Second World War”. He then predicted the war would cause the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since 1945.
Three million refugees have already fled their homes since the Russian invasion, according to the United Nations. With most entering neighboring EU countries, the UK government has announced the Homes for Ukraine scheme. One image shared widely on social media showed thousands of refugees crammed onto a Kharkiv railway platform, desperately trying to get on the remaining trains out of the defeated city. The image went viral when it had the color desaturated and was
