Five years on: Poland's border forest where migrants die and rescuers grieve

Poland's border crisis with Belarus has lasted five years, leaving deep marks on both the landscape and those who work there. Pastor Krzysztof Flasza, who has conducted funerals for migrants who died in the forest, says volunteers have stopped counting the rescued and now live with those they could not save. The report examines what remains — in people and in the forest itself — after years of deaths along the border.

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