a lesson that you could see belies just how quickly these high school sort of had to grow up. since fleeing their home country weeks ago. i miss my city so much, if we were friends you would just, you would have to see my hundred messages about how i want my home. i miss my city, because if war stopped, just like that i need to wait two months before going back home. it destroyed, it destroyed all my. city. i was home when the bomb blast in the house. i just saw its noise and a, it s so crazy and strange. contrast richina school is a welcome relief. i want to say thank you to all the poland. people from gym class, to the lunchroom. new friendships are formed. sometimes the presidents is the most that we can give.
commission for refugees estimates a nearly 2.7 million people have fled ukraine since the start of the ukraine invasion. as you can see on this map, the vast majority, almost 1.7 million people have escaped to poland. and i will, say poland has a much more structured system for receiving these refugees than where i am, in hungary, where it s mostly civil societies. more than 246,000 of taken refugees here in hungary, it s the second largest group. joining us now is david miliband. he s our secretary for the united kingdom, he serving as the president of the international relief committee. overseeing relief of firsts for the war. david, i wanted to say what i just said in the last segment to remind people that, if you find this shocking, and you find as different offensive, that people are like, this and that people have to
dolls with the image of the nesting doll is parked right there. as if it can replace globalization, so a lot of russians also getting mad not only at putin but as the west as well. it s the balancing act that putin is using with propaganda especially tv propaganda. that russian s have to stand against the world. because the world wants to punish russia for being independent. standing up to united states. with its mcdonald s and it s microsoft and google and whatnot. and some people actually buy that propaganda unfortunately. well, it s said that russians who have nothing to do with this suffering under as much as anyone else. nina thank you for your time. nina karadsheh vote, much more to come live from warsaw tonight including the crucial role that poland is playing in
it seems like there s a good chance it will in the coming weeks. that border is going to be a really serious flash point that we need to be worried about as a nato ally of poland. let s think about that. it s a big border. but, as you said, all of the stuff . a large majority of the support and material are going across the polish border. we know that more than two thirds of the refugees coming out are going through that polish border. poland is taking a big risk right now. it s hoping to lean on its nato allies to say, don t have us take this one alone. this could be very bad. is it poland s experience, either through the wars or in the solidarity movement that ended communism here, that zelenskyy could be right? this thing could be spreading last? absolutely. i was serving in poland when russia first began invading ukraine eight years ago.
people, that they don t want to escalate, they don t want to bring nato into a direct war with russia. but we have had this news overnight, about a missile that has, a missile attack, on a base inside ukraine, west of lviv. about 12 kilometers, 12 miles, from the border with poland, which does have antiaircraft batteries, anti missile batteries, patriot missiles and things like that. but the thing is getting very, very close. do you think that has an impact on the european members of parliament who you re talking about? that this battle is not about a little part of eastern ukraine that russia says they are there to protect russians speakers. this is now all over ukraine, including on nato s border. definitely. i m sure that many countries and governments and parliamentarians, indifferent european countries, understand that there should be very strong security measures. i m talking, now, about the military, different security