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make choices about what you could take with you and what you have to leave behind. and you only bring the essentials. every refugee i spoke to in budapest said the same thing, the choices they had to make and there you have a family because you can t move around with this stuff. you re dependent on public transportation and the charity of others. it is a humanitarian crisis an that is what we re following. those people are on the hungary an side and the border is over there and the ukraine is on the other side and police are patrolling the area and they are approaching that family. the police have been around here to make sure people aren t hanging around, even though they re trying to get food to refugees, the police are assuring this doesn t become a gathering place like saw allison barber at in poland. the hungarys have not been i want to be cautious, as hospitable as other countries have. i m joined by chris meltzer for
challenges for their aid workers. joining us live from poland is chris meltzer, a senior spokesman for the u.n. refugee agency. thanks for joining us. i know it is early your time. i understand that you got to poland a week ago, right when this crisis started unfolding, what is your assessment of this situation there on the border a week into it? well, it is a terrible situation for many people. so as you have mentioned, so many people fled ukraine and we have officially passed the one million mark, about half of them went to poland and the people are waiting, in freezing cars, women and children, men stayed behind, to cross the border, and people are desperate, of course. they don t know what comes next. and they don t know what will happen to their country. we try to help these people but it is a major crisis right now.
people there. chris meltzer, is a senior relations officer for the united high commission for refugees live at the border of poland and ukraine. don t go anywhere. another special hour of velshi from the hungaran border begins right now. good morning, i m ali velshi, it is saturday, march 5th. day ten of the russia invasion of ukraine. it is 8:00 in the united states and 3:00 p.m. in kyiv and near the border crossing from ukraine which is where i am. it is here that some of the refugees fleeing from the war are arriving on foot. 157 have a thousand have so far fled to hungary from ukraine. according to the u. high commission for refugees, more than 1.3 million people and counting have fled ukraine for neighboring countries including hungary, slovakia, romania and
and ordinary people standing at the border talking to totally different unknown people to them. asking them, do you need something, can i drive you to somewhere? do you need accommodation and they help them. we are focusing our work on ukraine because this is the crisis area and we have 120 staffers there doing extraordinary work every day. yeah, your absolutely right about that. even here in hungary, it is church organizations, it is the red cross, it is volunteers and individuals who come here to this border crossing where i am with food, somebody just asked me half an our ago, where could i leave food for people. so the people of these countries are doing remarkable job. i want to ask you, chris, about the situation and i spoke to spoke to people in budapest, there are a lot of people in ukraine who are not white. they are settled there and maybe working there. they have had, they say, problems get ago cross the
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