Ukrainians Down Tools and Ditch Trucks to Head Home to Fight
- As refugees influx grows, thousands of men head the other way
- Polish and Czech employers, though supportive, feel the loss
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As Russia’s invasion prompts the exodus of more than a million people from Ukraine, a smaller group is moving the other way. Growing in number by the day, they’re off to war.
Whether builders, warehouse workers or truck drivers, a flow of mainly Ukrainian men are headed east from nearby countries where hundreds of thousands of them and their families have settled in recent years.