an estimated 8.3 million people could flee ukraine into neighboring countries by the end of the year. this is according to the u.n. refugee agency, and this is nearly double the agency s initial projections. according to the u.n., more than 5 million ukrainians have already left the country. we re joined now by the former first lady of ukraine, katerina yushenko, thank you very much for being with us. you hear these numbers, and i know you re focused especially on the children who are impacted and displaced because of this war. what more can the world, should the world be doing, especially for the children in. well, first, we are very thankful for every country that has taken in our people. i recently visited poland that in a matter of 40 days had taken in 2 1/2 million ukrainians. and so the fact that the world has been so welcoming has really given us a great deal of hope. i have seen over the last few weeks that in fact, ukrainians
we need u.s. banks like citibank, investment banks like jpmorgan, roth child, goldman sachs, to leave russia. we need the big four accounting companies to leave russia. we need defense companies like grumman, general dynamics, to leave russia. we need chemical companies like dupont and dow to leave russia. and look, we tech companies. not just to stop selling i will say, look, we have covered a lot of the companies that decided to leave russia, but you draw a very interesting distinction there, the ones that have not. i want to thank you so much. i m so sorry for what is happening in ukraine. former first lady katerina yushenko, thank you for joining us. cnn s breaking news coverage continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, march 4th. i m john berman with brianna