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Nick thorpe on the hungarian side of the border. lets speak to my colleague kasia madera, whos on the polish side of the border with ukraine. poland has ta ken poland has taken in the most refugees so far, fleeing the fighting here. how are authorities coping there? it is fighting here. how are authorities taping there?— fighting here. how are authorities coin: there? , ., ., coping there? it is a huge movement, to galvanise — coping there? it is a huge movement, to galvanise emergency _ cop...

Become targets themselves. >> i want to check in with our own correspondents. what is the situation at the border right now? i think youre on the polish side. how many people are still trying to cross? >> they are. so its 2:00 a.m. on the polish side and 3:00 a.m. on the ukraine side. and what we have been seeing are large numbers of people. but in small groups. so you will will get small groups of people and in every single group, anderson, there are lots of small children. those small children...

Accusations by russia that ukraine is targeting them. they deny all of those accusations, but the real question is if russia does recognize these two breakaway states inside ukraine, well the next move be to send in large numbers of regular russian forces into that area? we will hear more on it from putin tonight. back to you guys. >> sandra: steve harrigan live and the kyiv for us. >> john: could create a humanitarian crisis. now they are preparing to accept ukrainian refugees, should it happen...

Russian forces have amped up air and artillery strikes designed to destroy and blast people over large areas in very populous parts of ukraine. sara sidner is out front near the poland/ukraine border where so many hundreds of thousands of families frankly have sought refuge from the violence. >> a 15-year-olds desperate tears. she says she has just walked across the border to meet her mother, but her mother has just fainted. she has no pulse, she is not breathing. volunteer medics from israel ru...

Strategic goal. and thats why this unbelievable situation is what the world is watching unfold right now. but again, even with saying all that, the officials im speaking with, there is still no sense that the u.s. military will go in there and go to war with russia over ukraine. now, the military could be brought in to help in poland. theres already some there, specifically the 82nd airborne, they could be helped to get some americans and maybe even some other, you know, allied citizens out in t...

On the slovak ukrainian border. lets speak to my colleague, kasia madera, whos on the polish side of the border with ukraine. just to let you know, we are seeing a line from the world health organization saying that the first 0rganization saying that the first shipment of supplies for ukrainian refugees will arrive in poland tomorrow including sleep —— trauma care and surgery help and we can only imagine the level of need for people as they come across that border. . �* , people as they co...

In polish side of politics in recent years, theyre not very split on this, orbahn is a putin admirer. he is sort of on the tucker carlson or donald trump part of politics. >> again, i hate to keep going back to this, but if you talk to pols about russia, david ig ignatius, they will go back to the massacre. dr. brzezinski would still bring it up. it is still a part of their identity, what the soviets did to them. they wont forget it. orban may forget it. they will never forget it and never align...

And it has now reached 2 million people have fled across various borders. >> well, that number is only going to grow, john. you know, what we saw there was about 100, 150,000 people crossing the border every single night. and my view, on the other polish side of the border, is different than whats happening inside of ukraine. what i saw were the individuals who were able to walk out of there. and the first wave of individuals are people with money, people with passports, people with friends and ...

They dont have their helmets on, their weapons are loaded. we have seen the soldiers on patrol here with weapons loaded and ready for combat. but mostly what is going on here in the west of the country is the refugees trying to get out of the country. the biggest obstacle they face right now is traffic. the main road coming from kyiv to here is normally a six hour drive. we talked with one couple who did it in 14 hours. some of the ukrainians we are speaking with have family back in kyiv that ca...

Little bit of respite. time to work out what their next move is, because of course, this is the first time that they have reached poland, they have reached the safety of a country having endured such difficult journeys to get here. these buses are coming here time and time again, giving you some indication of the sheer volume of people that are crossing the border into poland. kasia madera on the polish side of the border with ukraine, thank you. the prosecutor at the international criminal cour...