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in the capital kyiv, train stations were packed as evacuees parted with their families. this woman who arrived in poland describes what she left behind. i left all my life. i left all my life there. and i really, really hope to come back there. i want to come back home one day. several million people now have had to walk away from their lives. our correspondent mark lowen sent this report from the medyka crossing on poland ukraine border. they grew up hearing of generations past fleeing. never could they imagine history would repeat itself. but the refugees keep coming, more than 2 million now, taking days to get here in the bitter cold. there are no lucky refugees, but at least vladimir and his family are away from the bombs. we have a polish family. they give us a house,
but most are in poland, and at the border, there sjoy, too, of a father living here reunited with his daughterfrom kyiv. i kept thinking in the middle of the night how to bring her from ukraine, he says. i m so relieved she s here. homes, safety, childhood innocence what we take for granted, what they risk losing. mark lowen, bbc news, on the poland ukraine border. earlier on tuesday, moscow said it was opening corridors to allow more people to leave safely from a number of besieged cities. in order to safely evacuate civilians from human settlements, a silence regime is being introduced today and humanitarian corridors from kyiv, chernihiv, sumy, kharkiv and mariupol are being opened. but ukrainian officials accuse
they re ready to resist. the russians so far have moved slowly. the capital s respite might not last much longer. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kyiv. turning back to the humanitarian crisis this is causing. dominika chylewska is a spokesperson for caritas, the largest charitable organisation in poland. she joins from przemysl in south east poland. help me understand the kind of work that caritas is doing at the moment. from the border of poland, it is well most of the refugees are coming from ukraine are hearing at the first moment and what caritas does on the border as we mostly support them at that moment when they cross them at that moment when they cross the border and i hear all the terrifying stories we ve heard falls
but around here, the ukrainians are still holding the russians. a few traces of old lives are left, where families cook their food and the dogs waiting for owners who may never return. it was a lonely and tense drive back to kyiv. ukrainian troops are dug into the woods waiting. we gave a lift to a couple who d left their front line village after 13 days and nights in a shelter. it used to be such a lovely place, she said. now there s no house, no street and no village. ukrainian soldiers were strengthening a blocking position at a strategic crossroads. dragan, their commander, issuing a stream of orders, radiated urgency. they weren t wasting any time. you could see the pressure. we re here to destroy