Polish women band together to give Ukrainian women car rides to safe refuge

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Refugees wait in a line after fleeing the war from neighboring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

When 22-year-old Hanna Antoniuk arrived on the Polish border, one of the first things she noticed was all the men offering rides.

She had fled Ukraine alone. It was night. And the scene made her nervous.

“It’s an unknown, unfamiliar country, unknown men. You don’t know the language, and you don’t know what can happen at all,” she says.