The president of Poland said that besieged Mariupol looks like Warsaw did in 1944 after the Germans bombed houses and killed civilians “with no mercy at all.”
in a Warsaw rebuilt from the ashes of that war, spoke as traumatized people bearing witness to the horrors inflicted on Ukraine by Russian forces continued to flee. They arrived by the thousands in Poland and other neighboring nations.
"During the last five days the planes were flying over us every five seconds and dropped bombs everywhere," she said. "Today the Russian army is behaving in exactly the same way. Russian leaders are behaving in exactly the same way, like Hitler, like the German SS, like the German pilots of the fascist army during World War II."
The International Organization for Migration estimates that nearly 6.5 million people are also internally displaced within Ukraine, suggesting that some, if not most, might flee abroad if the war continues.
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