Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In London, I'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Today we'll be taking three views of the flood of people displaced by the war in Ukraine.

In next door Poland, it's anything but a refugee crisis.

The country has been organized as it's welcomed more than half of those fleeing Ukraine.

Much further afield, my co-host John Fassman has been speaking with new arrivals in Brighton

Beach, a New York City neighborhood that's long been a destination for Eastern European

immigrants.

And there's an overlooked part of the vast displacement of people that the war is causing.

Plenty of Russians are on the move too.

We ask why so many of them are ending up in Turkey.

Some 4.7 million people have fled Ukraine since the war began.

They've set their sights on destinations throughout Europe and beyond, but for most, the

first stop has been Poland.

Many have stayed, two and a half million of them.

Five months Alex Klapp went to a refugee center to speak with new arrivals about their

experiences.

At the town of Kurchova in eastern Poland, refugees are arriving every day from Ukraine.

Their buses bring them to a defunct shopping center off a busy road.

It is a colossal building made of corrugated iron that's been painted blue and white.

Outside the defunct shopping complex, a bank of food trucks are serving apples and grilled

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