In a former shopping centre on the outskirts of Przemysl, a city in south-eastern Poland, up to 300 Ukrainian refugees arrive each day.
That number is significantly lower than this time last year when tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees fled each day across the border into Poland, following Russia's full-scale invasion of their country.
On one single day in March 2022, more than 50,000 Ukrainians passed through Przemysl, which is situated 12km from the border with Ukraine.
Today’s refugees still arrive disorientated and requiring help.
The war launched by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin one year ago has up-ended their lives.
"We tried living in Ukraine but now it’s so hard. Now we don’t know where we stay. We are on the crossroads now. It is an absolutely crazy situation," says Dmitry Kobalinsky, who ran a painting and decorating company in Kyiv for the past 30 years.
He arrived in Przemysl two days ago with his wife Natalia Shmatkova and young children, Ivan and Anna.
As we speak, Ivan and Anna attend online classes before an air raid alarm back home in Kyiv halts school for an hour.
The humanitarian centre in Przemysl is managed by the Polish Red Cross.
"We are here to give people the first help that they need. That's a bed, food, showers. They can take psychological help. Also we have a play room for kids. Some of them just want to hear [they are] safe. Some just want a hug," says Anna Misniak, co-ordinator at the centre with the Polish Red Cross.
In late March, Przemysl city council will open a new reception centre for refugees closer to the city centre as the old shopping centre will be redeveloped.
Przemysl is a small city by Polish standards with a population of 60,000 people, including about 5,000 Ukrainians who have settled in the city.
The mayor of Przemysl, Wojciech Bakun, told RTÉ News that an estimated two million refugees had passed through the city over the past 11 months.
"Here in Przemysl we provide all the basics. You have everything here for your first step, rest for a day or two. We're called a reception city," says Mr Bakun.
Refugees can stay 48 hours in the city before being provided with transport to other cities in Poland.
A free evacuation train also leaves Przemysl each night for Hanover in Germany.
Mr Kobalinksy and Ms Shmatkova planned to board that train with their two children.
The family had fled to Poland in March 2022 as part of that first wave of refugees.
But they returned to Kyiv at the start of last summer, thinking the worst was over.
"We thought that the war would soon be over so we returned to Kyiv. The situation was more or less calm and it was safe to stay there," says Ms Shmatkova.
That sense of calm did not last.
"During the last months I have been mentally exhausted and I can no longer be in such stressful situation for another one or two more years. It is very difficult for children because when the air raid alarms go off, we need to get ready, take the backpack and get to the bomb shelter," says Ms Shmatkova.
An estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees now live in Poland according to the UNHCR.
The people that your reporter spoke to said that they hoped to return to their homeland when the war ends. That could still be a long way off yet.
Mr Putin’s antagonistic language towards the West in his state of the nation address in Moscow on Tuesday indicates that Russia does not intend to stop its war in Ukraine any time soon.
"I think that this will be a long leave, not for one or two months but until the end of the war," says Ms Shmatkova.
