Ukrainian refugees travel hundreds of kilometers across Slovakia to obtain documents in remote border town

Ukrainian refugees from across Slovakia are making arduous journeys to the small border town of Snina to obtain essential documents from the country's only specialized office handling refugee paperwork. The foreign police department in Snina, established at the beginning of this year specifically for processing Ukrainian refugee documentation, sees dozens of exhausted people daily who travel hundreds of kilometers and spend entire days waiting in cramped waiting rooms with their luggage and packed meals. The centralized system forces Ukrainians living throughout Slovakia to make these long trips to the remote northeastern town near the Ukrainian border, creating significant hardship for refugees who often must take time off work and arrange expensive transportation to complete basic administrative procedures required for their legal status in the country.