Africans trying to escape from Ukraine are complaining of difficulty and discrimination at land borders into the EU.
Ruqqaya, a Nigerian medical student who was studying at university in Kharkiv, walked for 11 hours overnight to arrive at Medyka-Shehyni, at the border with Poland this morning.
At the border she was told by border guards to wait as Ukrainians had to be let through first.
She says she has watched busloads of people, who she described as white, being allowed through the border while only a handful of Africans have been selected from the queue.
Ruqqaya is trying to get to Warsaw to catch a flight she has booked home to Nigeria.
Another group of students say they are stuck on the border with Przemyśl where Ukrainian border guards won’t allow them to pass.
“This is not happening to Ukrainians,” says Timothy Adegbile, a medical student in Lviv.
However, a Polish border force spokesperson says: “Everyone who arrives at the Polish border from Ukraine is being allowed entry regardless of nationality.”
Stephanie Hegarty – BBC News