Opole

In Glucholazy, in Poland's southwestern Opole region, firefighters piled up sandbags as residents were evacuated.

In Roanoke, where Ukraine’s flag now flies instead of Russia’s, the program sent more than $5,000 for refugees via its sister-city counterpart in Opole, Poland.

“It’s very painful when you are with a pregnant woman who is almost delivering and there is no medication and you wonder, Will the child be positive or not?” said Caroline Opole, who is a volunteer “mentor mother,” counseling women who test positive for H.I.V. at prenatal testing as she did.

Moving from the train in groups of 30, the children — also from the Darnytskyy orphanage in Kyiv — were escorted to buses waiting to take them to Opole, Poland, where they would be settled and receive further care.

Instead, she sat on a bed in her grandmother’s apartment in Opole, Poland, streaming the event live on her phone — alone, in the dark.