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Artillery, these scenes of confusion and suffering could be just the beginning. rob cameron, bbc news, on the slovak ukrainian border. in a moment we can speak to our correspondent nick thorpe in hungary, but first lets speak to my colleague kasia madera, whos on the polish side of the border with ukraine. so many people coming through. how are the authorities managing to help them? every day, thousands of people are coming and every day, the local authorities and local volunteer groups are read...

Ukrainian refugees safely escape the fighting. and another american vet lending a helping hand. 26-year-old efrom illinois, also an emt, bringing care to refugees on the polish side of the border. >> a lot of people can watch that over the news and go back to their meals unaffected. im not one of those people. personally, im exhausted. its very busy here. a little drained, maybe but seeing what were doing, keeps me going. theyve been through bad stuff. and its resolved quickly. and its resolve...

Humanitarian action. and were going to look at live pictures of the border. we do have a feed coming in. you describe what is happening on the polish side of the boarder in terms of arrivals of ukrainians. how is the system working? >> well, first of all, good morning. thank you for having me. so the situation on the polish side of the border is very dynamic. some time you have people going in big groups. then you have only a couple of people crossing. also, the situation differs if you have som...

Family on the polish side. video we shot at one of the other border crossings earlier where you can see people walking across the border. many having walked for miles and miles. possibly abandoning a car caught in traffic and then reunited with friends and family in many cases here in poland. then there was another story that we discovered almost by accident when we were at the border crossing not very far from where i am right now and that was a number of young men who were living here in polan...

Also, what they said there. well follow up on that. be safe, arwa, thank you. weve been getting a ton of reports about people who are black not being able to get out or cross the border, not being allowed to do -- to get out of kyiv or to get out of ukraine. we want to follow up on that. we want to go to sara sidner. arwa was on the ukrainian side. sarah is on the polish side now. sarah, you heard what the man told arwa there. he said if youre black and trying to get out, youre wasting your time...

European leaders today, that is very dangerous, and really, kind of pushes us into a new phase of this ramped up russian aggression, jonathan. >> certainly good news that no radiation spike detected. but worrisome for ukrainians at that plant which supplies a lot of power to the country, it is now in the control of the russians who potentially have the ability to turn it off. give us the situation where you are in lviv today and your sense of the fighting throughout the country. >> so we came in...

Faithful remained in the church but many others moved down to the crypt of the church which doubles down and the bunker so people are aware that no part of this country is now safe, that shelling and bombardment of that shelling and bombardment of that military base which is also where there is a training facility for nato was just 25 kilometres from poland and ive seen footage where you can see it on the polish side of the border, you can see the light, the border, you can see the light, the ex...

Ukrainians from the border is enormous. the polish side of the border, many volunteers who provide for ukrainian refugees water, food, warm clothing, free sim cards so people can contact families in ukraine to tell them theyre okay. the amount of support has been so huge, even though the road to the polish border has been so exhausting for many ukrainians. they are not very good. >> yeah, the line-ups have been incredible. hours and hours of waiting sometimes 24 hours. tyesa, 2 million so far. d...

Given a full hearing by the government and is one of the actions that can be taken to not only show the enormity of what president putin has done by breaking international laws, but also make him aware that there is a potential punishment if he does not cease action. gordon brown there, former prime minister, speaking to my colleague. speaking to my colleague. the polish border guard agency has confirmed more than 672,500 people have fled ukraine to poland since the war began last week, more tha...

>> the restaurant in lviv has no paying customers, but its kitchen is bustling. every day they prepare some 2,000 hot meals for those fleeing the fighting in the east. they started doing this on their own but now are being supported by chef jose andres and his world central kitchen. >> so, whats happening here? >> well, this is one of our partner kitchens. and the partnership happened like always happens before even we land. we contact them, sometimes they contact us. >> jose andres has been ser...