| An ad-hoc network in Europe is helping Ukrainians flee—and fight—the Russian invasion.  Kostiantyn Stupak. Photograph by Rafał Milach / Magnum for The New Yorker An “army of helpers” has rallied throughout Europe in support of Ukrainians leaving their country in search of safety, and also of those who have stayed behind to fight. As Ed Caesar reports from Poland, the story of ordinary people who have felt called to help has repeated itself, with local variations, across the Continent. In the city of Przemysl, near the border with Ukraine, a construction worker named Kostiantyn Stupak looks for Ukrainian refugees to fill his bus, which he plans to take to destinations across northern Poland. In Germany, Olha Lukianova, a product manager, works with hunting-supply companies to source military equipment to send across the border to Ukraine. “Colleagues and strangers were sending Lukianova so much money that she worried her bank account would be frozen because of a suspicious-behavior report,” Caesar writes. And, in Hungary, Julia Valova mans a phone line and organizes volunteers for a Ukrainian Catholic foundation. “Mr. Putin didn’t split the country like he wanted,” she says. “He just made us more united. He made us crazy.” —Jessie Li, newsletter editor | 
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