but he managed to come here, traveling with his coach because he s an athlete and a polish university is taking him in. i feel more safety. and i feel help from the polish people. they help us very well. it s hard, but we believe we ll be back to ukraine. and little acts of kindness like those people donating dog food and water for the many animals. a lot of women, children, people who are traveling with their pets, you know, finding things like this along the way. but this is a strain on warsaw s infrastructure, because of the number of people who arrived here seemingly overnight. kyung lah, cnn, warsaw. well, now for something completely different after the break. it s hood s biggest night in los
to save lives as the patients come in. there you can hear the bombing around you. there was a gunfight less than a kilometer away. the windows are sandbagged. it s all blackout curtains. the patients are mostly in the corridors because they re very aware that multiple hospitals have been targeted in this war. dozens and dozens have been recorded by the united nations as having been hit. but they re still there. again, they re determined to leave and save as many lives as they can. determined to stay. sorry. yeah, thank you, emma graham harrison there for highlighting that so many medical facilities have been hit in just a few weeks. thank you so much for your reporting. u.s. officials are trying to walk back president joe biden s fiery remarks about vladimir putin when he said the russian president cannot remain in power. you ll remember he said that was an ad-libbed moment at the end of his speech in warsaw. cnn s arlette science has the details from the white house.
kyiv. but soon came the familiar sounds of war. at first, we had no intention to leave at all, because we had witnessed so much war. we suddenly heard a siren. it was very terrifying. reporter: with little money, few possessions, and unable to speak the local language, traveling to neighboring poland was marked by constant challenge and heartache. the most difficult thing was the train station. that i really did not know how to get on the train. so your mom is standing there in front of a packed train, talking to you. she s got the baby. exactly. and you re pleading with them to get on that train. yeah. because i thought that s the only option for them. reporter: fatima says her family s grueling journey out of ukraine was only made possible due to random acts of kindness by ukrainians they met along the way. people are beautiful. i mean, they re kind and they don t hesitate to approach you and help you. reporter: now in warsaw, their struggle far from over.
forces, they say that they re pretty confident they re further going to be able to push the russians back. but their leadership, they understand that these gains that the ukrainians are making, they re still pretty fragile. and of course the russian army has a huge force here outside of kyiv and does remain very dangerous. fred pleitgen, thanks very much. when the russian invasion began, it was staggering to hear estimates that nearly five million people could be forced out of ukraine. just weeks later, we ve nearly reached four million. kyung lah shows us what those refugees face when they finally reach a safe destination. reporter: this is one of the main train stations in warsaw, poland, where after people cross the border, or if they re able to make it directly here, they can transfer to other parts of europe. poland has taken in some two million refugees, 350,000 of them, more than 350,000 of them according to the mayor have decided to stay in the city. this is a city that h