Since the war in Ukraine began, more than 3 million people have fled the country, and

about 1.7 million of them have gone to Poland.

Our colleague Drew Henshaw is based in the capital city, Warsaw, where hundreds of thousands

of Ukrainians have arrived in the last three weeks.

The train station is completely packed with people.

It's hard to even find a footpath in the train station because everywhere you look, there's

families sleeping on blankets.

And Polish citizens have been welcoming to the new refugees.

You see signs offering help on almost every block.

You see volunteers here, places where they're handing out food for refugees.

So whole society is making an effort to host the Ukrainians who've come to Poland.

So this huge influx of refugees is being housed in the homes of Ukrainians who live here,

in strangers, with friends, churches, businesses.

Most people I think I know here have offered to host Ukrainian, you see Ukrainian flags everywhere.

When you're at the grocery store, there's a box to put groceries for Ukrainian refugees

who've arrived.

There are placards saying, you know, we're with you and Polish everywhere.

People are wearing Ukrainian pins on their chest.

Drew says that part of the reason Poles have been so supportive of Ukrainians is that many

people can identify with a threat from Russia.

People see Ukrainians as that could be us.

If we were a little bit to the east, if we hadn't joined NATO, if we hadn't joined the European

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