clothes on the back, a suitcase or two. do they think that they will be going back to the ukraine anytime soon? do they plan to be gone indefinitely? that is a really good question. i spoke to the people who seem very hopeful that they will go back in a month, in three months. some are relocating. some of them go home to countries that they came from. people who are not from the ukraine, who have been there studying, and visas. some have family. in eastern europe, there are people with connections to different places like eastern hungary, poland, romania, germany. so they re gonna go home with some of their relatives. most people have gone, but since we last talked there are some people looking for some final plans to how to get to places. you can see here, people with the red cross, there are church groups helping people out. i will be clear, stephanie. there is no official government presence here at all. there are police that have been very helpful, but they are just full of has p
a hostile country. the currency here has been suffering, they are dependent on russian energy. he said if the eu sanctions russian energy we are not going to so hungry is stuck. they have agreed today to have nato soldiers move in. west of the danube river, west of budapest. the troops are not supposed to come here. weapons can come here to go to ukraine, but can t go directly to ukraine. they have to go through a third country. one thing i have seen today, that i have not seen before, very heavily armored military presence in eastern hungary. including a truck that had anti-aircraft missiles. we re not quite sure what they re planning to do with that. because hungary does not want to get in a conflict with russia. it s feeling a little more armed than it was when you and i top 24 hours ago. and quick last question for you ali. almost 2 million refugees in 12 days. these are historic monumental numbers. they could get higher, three,
the russians will then just starten targeting nato countrie. but i just want to say this one thing. if you re in a basement in mariupol, if you fled from kharkiv on a train that was bombed as it was headed for kyiv, world war three has started with you and it is hard to sympathize with a widening conflict. of course. and two million refugees almost have left ukraine. you have been watching bus loads arrive where you are in hungary near ukraine s border. how is hungary coping with this influx of people from ukraine? well, it s complicated. we don t get as many as they re getting in poland. poland gets about 60% of them. you saw linda greenfield talk, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., sayingsa 100 people are going io poland every hour, and we re not getting that many, but about 180,000, probably close to 200,000 now in hungary, a
presence in eastern hungary. including a truck that had anti aircraft missiles on it. we re not quite sure what they re planning to do with that because hungary doesn t want to get into that sort of conflict with russia but it is feeling a littleus more armed than it was when you and i talked about 24 hours ago. quick last question, for you, ali, almost two million refugees in 12 days, these are historic monumentalth numbers. they could get higher. three, four, five million, god forbid. sure. how does hungary and poland cope withar those kind of numbe? well, polands at least has camps that they are setting up and i can t imagine, refugee camps in europe but they got them. hungary is saying none of those. what they are really hoping for is people who comear in here, transit through somewhere else, in poland you go to warsaw to getgo to an airport to go somewhere else that you know people. same thing in pude pest. you got an airport that by the way, another one of these bosses th
this hand. let s go back in ministry of interior says that volunteers were able to use that phone number to reach the boys relatives who arrive to pick him up. today, hassan met with the internal minister of slovakia said that the young boy has already sought temporary protection in the country. so viking officials called him a hero for making that long journey. and there are millions more like him trying to make their track to safety, too. meanwhile, here near hungary s border with ukraine, also seeing an influx of refugees. i got a chance to speak with some of them, and with their humanitarians who are coming to their eight. here, smoke rises from jim news that were new a century ago. this tiny village of hungary sits just across the river from a now, war torn ukraine. but as refugees bore out of these buses, it might as well be a war apart. i feel that i don t have a home, because somebody thinks that they can take our country. it s not normal. we need to do something.