are hearing that a young soldier, a 19—year—old soldier from the coldstream guards, has gone absent without leave, feared to be on his way to ukraine. we will have more from our defence corresponded shortly. since the outbreak of the war in ukraine, two million people have left the country — and the number is expected to rise. 13 days ago, many ukrainian citizens were going about their normal daily lives, now they have become refugees in neighbouring countries. lewis goodall has this report from the polish—ukrainian border. all throughout europe, all through the day, all through the night, journeys of mercy are being made. this german group of paramedics from frankfurt are making the 1,250 mile journey to the polish border to use their ambulance bus to help provide medical care to ukraine's refugees. we call it in germany ambulance bus — so there's a big bus that can take six people on the beds here and you can take