Couple, a pair of neighbors, who were in mariupol. they survived 40 days of bombing before they were able to get on it toward russia. in their case, it was simply a matter of convenience. for a lot of people, that is self the days. then ending up in places like estonia, decide whether to say here or find some other home in europe before they manage to get back to ukraine. yeah, in many ways it seems this is how many countries are standing up to vladimir putin, in a humanitarian way. scott mcclain, thank you. refugees fleeing to poland, over 2.7 million. many have no idea where to go next. cnn s selma abdelaziz reports from inside a polish train station which is now a temporary rest stop for thousands. reporter: this is going to be an unimaginably difficult
Celebrations because of the war in ukraine. as you mentioned, pope francis will shortly begin celebrating the easter mass in st. peter s square. this is the first time he s been able to do that in the square in front of a crowd since the covid pandemic began. later today, at noon, he ll deliver his traditional address to the city and the world. it s usually a 360-degree review of the global situation. there we would expect the pontiff very directly to address the crisis in ukraine and to repeat his denunciations of the war. but even without speaking, the pope managed to make a statement friday night, good friday, during the traditional way of the cross ceremony. at one point, he entrusted the cross to a ukrainian and a russian woman, both nurses, they re personal friends here in rome. that brought a lot of protests from ukrainians who saw it as a kind of moral equivalence between the aggressor and the victim, but the pope clearly saw
This is a small country, only about 1.3 million people. you figure 30,000 refugees, that is well over 2% of the population that is ukrainian refugees right now, or put a different way, 1 in every 44 people you run into in this country is a roouken refugee. so they are struggling to find places to house them. earlier this week we went on a cruise ship where more than 1,000 people are staying because the government thought that that option was a lot cheaper than housing people in holtz in the city. so they will be there up to four months. after that they re expected to go out on their own, with still some help from the government. i asked the minister responsible for refugees whether there were limits to the generosity of this country. she said, given the brutality, given the desperation we re seeing in ukraine, there simply cannot be. what there can be, what there is, are limits on the amount of resources that they actually have to share.
And that campaign is basically to terrorize and to basically destroy the remnants of the ukrainian army. any way they know how. this will be quite the battle of the coming days and weeks. general macaulay, thank you for your experience and insights, incredibly valuable, thank you, sir. thank you. word of another high-ranking russian military officer killed here in ukraine. the mayor of st. petersburg says major general vladamir frolov was killed, claiming he died in a battle with what he called ukrainian nationalists. cnn cannot confirm the circumstances of frolov s death but he would be among 15 lieutenant colonel or higher ranking officers who have died during russia s invasion of ukraine. cnn s world headquarters, kim brunhuber standing by. quite a number of senior
yeah, i mean, that s right. i was talking to one family who had russian soldiers, they live just on the edge of chernobyl, living with them. stormed their house, stole many of their belongings. they described them as teenagers, really, from siberia who are surprised by the level of comfort that ukraine had to offer compared to what they were used to back home. i think one of the kind of themes of this war is the callousness of the kremlin, of vladimir putin s military machine. first and foremost, to ukrainian civilians who have been executed, who have been kidnapped, made to stay in cellars. also the sort of indifference to their own soldiers. what we understand is some of these soldiers who were stationed in chernobyl are now ill with radiation sickness. when it comes to the way putin treats the military, any