INTERNATIONAL: Around 150 Ukrainian children from orphanages in the Kyiv region have arrived at the Polish border by train in the early hours of Tuesday ,March 8.

At Przemysl train station, the nearest large Polish town to its busiest border crossing with Ukraine, the orphans, mostly babies and toddlers, arrived from Lviv.

Volunteers and police officers gave the children cuddly soft toys as they were carried from the station and loaded onto buses.

As they waited to depart from the train station to a local school, some made faces and smiled through the bus windows to the volunteers in yellow reflective jackets on the platform.

In the same town, a children's charity had prepared a converted school sports hall to welcome them.

"We have food for them, there will be lots of kids who are very small so we will have to change nappies," Przemek Macholak, 25, deputy head of crisis response at Happy Kids, a Polish non-governmental organisation, has said.

"Then they will go to the buses again, they will go off to Poland, another 20-hour journey," he said in the hall, as mothers and children rested nearby and donations of clothes, food and drinks lined the corridors outside.

Happy Kids, which has helped with the evacuation of about 2,000 orphans so far, has said it was trying not to separate the children once they arrived in Poland.

"Just two days agom we had a transport of 700 kids," Macholak said on Monday (March 7). "It's not easy to find a place for anybody but its even tougher to find a place for 700 kids in the same one place."

Central Europeans, whose memories of Moscow's dominance after World War Two run deep, have continued to show support for their eastern neighbours.

The Polish government has passed a draft bill to create an 8 billion zloty,$1.75 billion USD fund to help refugees from Ukraine.