When I think about Ukrainian refugees right now, I think about these pictures I've seen of the roads leading out of the country. They've been jam-packed. Some people have simply ditched their vehicles on the side of the road and walked into countries like Poland or Hungary with their rolling bags

bumping behind them. According to the UN, 870,000 people have fled. In under a week.

Yeah. And the UN saying that it's going to surpass a million within days.

I called up Serena Perrick because she studies refugees at Northeastern University.

She said, looking at pictures like this, it's hard not to think back to Europe's last refugee

crisis. If you think back to 2015 and the Syrian

refugees that were arriving in Italy and Greece that summer, this week is 10 times higher rate

of refugees leaving the country than at the highest point of that crisis. And that felt overwhelming.

We had never seen such huge numbers.

How could we possibly absorb this many people?

That was the rhetoric at the time, at least.

And this week, we've seen tenfold level of displacement.

You know, I saw one journalist point out something that struck me. They said that the people we're seeing

now, it's not just that it's just the beginning. It's that these are the people with the

means to get out early. Like they've got cars. They can hit the road. It just made me wonder,

the pictures we're seeing of refugees now, is that situation about to change and maybe look a lot worse?

I think that's right because in all conflicts, the first people to get out are their people with means.

So I think it absolutely will get worse.

But there's good news here, Serena says. The European Union is crafting an emergency plan

that would give these refugees the opportunity to live and work and also access health care

and housing in EU countries for up to three years. Most refugee situations,

host countries host refugees, they sort of tolerate them, but they do not give them access to

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