this is a very serious situation. are there patients who you think could die from having to have everything interrupted like this? yes, just. most of these kids are in a life threatening situation and any kind of delay of their treatment is very bad for them. this, of all places, is little andrei s first ever trip abroad. i miss my home and my grandma and grandpa he says. at least here we don t have to run into shelters, because that was scary and hard. as volunteers from germany take the first children to a hospital there, more arrive. the cruelty of one man s war now forcing them to battle. mark lowen, bbc news, central poland.
to leave their hospitals, and having treatment interrupted, as they seek safety in europe. our correspondent mark lowen, who s in poland, has been hearing some of their stories. they, too, are the fighters of a debilitating disease made deadlier by the war they ve fled. ukraine s young cancer patients evacuated to poland, victims of a battle on two fronts. taken to a hotel to be examined, the most urgent to be sent to hospitals here and across europe. our hearts are tearing from pain, says this lady. my son always says he s fine, but we need to continue his treatment. whole families to from the homes at the most difficult times. olivia was born a day before russians invasion. olivia was born a day before russians invasion. lilya s little brother olexi has a brain tumour and is weak from the journey. he had three operations and then
silence, coziness and warmth. what do the children mean to you? translation: many people ask me why i do this job. . i feel that i m needed here. just when you think that this war cannot get any more obscene in the way that it ruptures human lives no matter how young, it does. and the sobering, sad part is that it will continue to do so. they ve been travelling 30 hours already, there are many more hours ahead. more than 1.5 million people have now left ukraine since the conflict began. well over half of those are now in poland. hungary and slovakia have each received over 100,000 refugees.
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of which are under russian control. in poland thousands more refugees have been arriving, so far more than one and a half million ukrainians have fled their country. almost 5,000 people have been arrested in russia, as anti war protests spread across the country. the ukrainian authorities say towns north west of the capital kyiv are under relentless bombardment, with intense fighting between government and russian forces. the heaviest fighting is said to be focussed on suburbs just 25 kilometres north west of kiev, as russian troops