ROB CAMERON

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent millions fleeing across the country’s western borders – including to Slovakia. Some were passing through, on their way to stay with friends and family further west, but many had nowhere to go – and no idea when they would be able to go home. And among the great tide of exhausted and disoriented people were thousands of foreign students.

Russian military equipment captured by the Ukrainian armed forces has gone on display in the Czech capital, Prague. “Russian propaganda likes to scare people that their tanks can reach Prague, Berlin or Paris. Ukrainians demonstrate – only in the form of scrap,” Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky told the BBC.