refugees that are fleeing, including building reception centres and other facilities to house and to provide medical assistance and food as needed as the emergency unfolds. now, while it is russia that s invaded ukraine, this is very much vladimir putin s war. he s the one making all the decisions, he s the one deciding what russian forces will do. here is a look at the man himself who is prepared to use overwhelming force on a much smaller neighbouring country. vladimir putin grew up in the aftermath of the second world war. in 1945, the us, the uk and the soviet union met to shape the new world. seven years on he was born in what was then leningrad and is now st petersburg. by the 70s putin had studied law and then joined the russian secret service, the kgb. at this time the soviet union s influence reached across the communist nations
we are not leaving, we will be there to provide as much assistance and protection and security and access as they allow us to. we are using a planning figure of up to 4 million, but of course, there figures that go higher. we don t know what the situation will be in the coming days. right now, all of the borders are open and all of the surrounding governments have shown such solidarity, have shown such support. they are the ones right now that i receiving the refugees. we are of course there to help. we have stockpiles of aid, we have come as i mentioned, staff on the ground, and of course, we are reinforcing all of this to provide the support that will be needed, but right now, it is the governments who are showing tremendous initiatives for the refugees that are fleeing, including building reception centres and other facilities to house and to provide medical assistance and food