poland, the government he is saying if what is welcome, all nationalities are welcome, important to stress that because it is not just ukrainian nationals coming over here, we ve spoken to so many different students from nigeria, india, bangladesh, who also made a typicaljourney. a lot of comments are made on social media that people are made on social media that people are being treated differently. it s impossible for me to verify on the side of the border what is happening there. there is a lot of stress and tension on the border. 0n the ukrainian side and of course they are checking documentation but poland is saying all nationals are welcome and they are ready and waiting to welcome these people, people are offering homes, offering lights, places to stay, families are opening their doors, other families are being reunited. there is a huge ukrainian population of the in poland, around 1 million ukrainians
going on. it s a difficult venue for ukraine because belarus is very much part of this war as we happen reporting in the weeks running up to this invasion, there were military exercises, marshalling of forces on the belarusian ukraine border and then of course there had been reports in the last 2a hours that belarusian troops could actually cross the border to join the russian offensive. is there any indication where you are how likely that is? no, not really, i m afraid. the kremlin is very keen to perpetuate the narrative that this is not an invasion of ukraine, this is not a war, the russian media are not even allowed to use those words, the narrative here is this is a necessary defence of the russian speaking populations in eastern
saying no to the war, glory to ukraine and that is how they showed they are protesting against lukashenko and also against the war in ukraine. we have asked people to mobilise and continue protesting against lukashenko and the regime in belarus and now people can do whatever they are ready for and they can withdraw money from banks and can withdraw money from banks and can protest openly on the streets and they can organise some strikes at work, and in many ways, but she also asked them to stop russian troops from moving. flit also asked them to stop russian troops from moving. troops from moving. of course, belarus is troops from moving. of course, belarus is playing troops from moving. of course, belarus is playing an troops from moving. of course, belarus is playing an important| troops from moving. of course, - belarus is playing an important part in all of this. in fact the talks are taking place on the border
hope to achieve and what can he get from peace talks? let s cross to moscow to join our correspondent jenny hill. 0n the talks taking place on the ukraine belarusian border, any sense of why russia would want to start talks now which of course are welcomed here, those talks? no, it s not clear, to be honest. it s increasingly difficult to know what is in the mind of vladimir putin, what his game plan is. we now russia had been rather insistent ukraine attend these talks in belarus, there are other options on the table, as turkey, israel all offered to host talks or mediate. but russia has been very single minded about wanting to do this in belarus, it s not a neutral country by any means in this conflict and the ukrainians were very unhappy about that and had said
been imposed in the last few days and how quickly the escalation from pretty targeted measures, to now fairly sweeping measures against the swift payment system and access to that system of russian banks, the russian central bank has been, so far this is a big restriction of western resolve, the question will be what the effects will be on the decision making of putin and the kremlin. decision-making of putin and the kremlin. . , , , ., kremlin. that s the big question. toda we kremlin. that s the big question. today we are kremlin. that s the big question. today we are seeing kremlin. that s the big question. today we are seeing the - kremlin. that s the big question. today we are seeing the rouble l kremlin. that s the big question. i today we are seeing the rouble has fallen to an all time low against the dollar, the everyday lives of russians could be impacted quite quickly. whether all this is enough to make him change course. yes. quickly. whether all this is enough to make