waiting for us. and he stay in ukraine for protect our country. reporter: this woman s husband is also back in kyiv, defending the city against vladimir putin s invasion. what would you tell people in russia? i would tell them just get rid of your president. he s insane. reporter: safe, but now uprooted with no idea if and when these people can ever go home. ivan watson, on the hungarian/ukrainian border. french president emanuel macron says refugees have been and will continue to be welcomed in europe. macron had a message during an address on wednesday. here it is. translator: but still we are not at war with russia. we all know what binds us to this great european people that is the russian people who sacrificed so much during world
sure. reporter: alexandra was on a foreign business trip when russia invaded. now she s hurrying back into ukraine to collect her children. my husband insist that i protect our children. so i take to my son, to my niece. we go to europe with my friend waiting for us, and he stay in ukraine for protect our country. reporter: her husband is also back in kyiv, defending the city against vladimir putin s invasion. what would you tell people in russia? i would tell them just get rid of your president. he s insane. reporter: safe, but now uprooted with no idea if and when these people can ever go home. ivan watson, on the hungarian/ukrainian border. thanks for watching, everyone. our live coverage continues.
to protect our country. her husband is also back in kyiv defending the city against vladimir putin s invasion. what would you tell people in russia? i would tell them just get rid of your president, he is insane. safe, but now uprooted with no idea if and when these people can ever go home. ivan watson, on the hungarian ukrainian border. all right, for more on how you can help the people of ukraine, go to cnn.com slash impact for information, plenty of resources there, if you d like to help. and we will have much more for ukraine, first let s head back to rosemary in atlanta. rosemary? thank you, michael. we will be back with you soon. coming up what s israel s doing to try to end the russian invasion of ukraine, we re live in jerusalem, that is next. rtified goosebumps.
kharkiv has been coming under intense bombardment and there have been a lot of civilian casualties. frank gardner reporting for us there, our security correspondent. the united nations says a million refugees have left ukraine since the russian invasion began, and eu ministers are to discuss a plan for residence permits for many of them, with the right to work in eu countries. those fleeing the fighting have mainly entered neighbouring eu states including poland, hungary and slovakia. the larger arrows indicate the biggest population flows. our central europe correspondent nick thorpe reports from the village of tiszabecs, on the hungarian ukrainian border, on the effort to help those forced to leave their homes. a mountain of gifts for the people of ukraine. ..from the people of hungary. the warehouse next to the primary school in tiszabecs