little bit of respite. time to work out what their next move is, because of course, this is the first time that they have reached poland, they have reached the safety of a country having endured such difficult journeys to get here. these buses are coming here time and time again, giving you some indication of the sheer volume of people that are crossing the border into poland. kasia madera on the polish side of the border with ukraine, thank you. the prosecutor at the international criminal court says he plans to open an investigation into russia s invasion of ukraine as soon as possible. karim khan says there is a reasonable basis to believe war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed. britain s deputy prime minister, dominic raab, says the government is supporting efforts to preserve evidence of war crimes and the uk will support the criminal court if and when it takes action.
vans, trucks, buses full of people. it takes a long, long time to get over the border, and next to them, you ve got hundreds of people on foot trying to do the exact same thing, and they might have been on the road for a very, very long time, but what we ve seen in poland when we were just two days ago before crossing into ukraine is a very well-organized humanitarian effort. when these people cross into poland, they will get warm food, a warm blanket, a place to sleep for one or two days, but most importantly, what they get the orders is transport. they get a possibility to move on to other places. a lot of them don t get stuck on the border. there could be friends or family who will drive them somewhere else to their destination, and the thing that s really edifying that you re going to see on the border, on the polish side, is you ve got volunteers holding up signs with countries that they are willing to drive to and are looking for people to join them
incompatible. there was a seven mile of cars waiting to get out of the country. some folks deciding to walk that distance. it is not a guarantee that you will ever get in, the line for pedestrians is really as long. on the polish side of the border, there is a backup for miles as well. you have a combination of families trying to get friends, get loved ones. people trying to come in and fight. yesterday, i had some time to spend at the translation here in lviv, it was a juxtaposition of a country at hall or. you have the soldiers head in towards the front. you have the civilians fleeing. it was an emotional scene. here s some the sound we were able to gather yesterday. why do you willing to do for this country? are you willing to how people are displaced? are you willing to? fight if we have to. we will. fights if we have to, we will fight. because, i m not sure how it can be possible not to fight for this country. when there are people.
all day, bosses are going over to pick people up and then they are coming back through all of people. it is a scene that we have been witnessing time and time again and i am just stressing that we are on the polish side of the border and from the accounts that we have been hearing we know that there are kilometres of tailbacks, up to 40 kilometres of tailbacks, up to 40 kilometres of tailbacks behind the border on the ukrainian side. there arejust so many border on the ukrainian side. there are just so many people trying to get through. polish authorities of estimating that so far of any since this crisis started 200,000 people have come from ukraine just into poland alone and they are expecting that number to increase. and all the time we are saying families come either on foot or in cars or they are loaded onto buses. coming across the board are sometimes reuniting with their families, sometimes
response which is obviously a worrying thing. i mean, these kids have been through just to get to that border, the point on the polish side where sara is, for many it has taken days and days of extremely difficult travel, wolf. you re absolutely right. crying for little kids, that s normal. if they re not crying, you re absolutely right, that s a potential problem involving trauma in this particular case. anderson, stand by. right now i want to bring in the unicef spokesman james elder. thank you so much for joining us. you re in lviv, in ukraine, helping these kids. ukraine is pausing vaccines, as you know, along some humanitarian quarters due to this awful russian shelling that s going on targeting lynch is areas. is time running out for ukrainian children to escape? yes, absolutely. and it s already run out for those children who have been killed in those bombardments. you know, getting that humanitarian access in is