Residents in war-torn Ukraine are on the run — at least some of them are.
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Over three million refugees have fled from Ukraine to surrounding countries since February 24. Overall, 7 million people are expected to cross its Western border, with an estimated 150,000 people crossing the border of Poland every single day.
This is the largest exodus of its kind from Europe in decades.
However, people can be found in desperate attempts to leave their countries throughout the world at any given time.
Whether it's due to political unrest or famine caused by climate change, those living in countries like Syria, Yemen and Haiti have all attempted to seek refuge elsewhere in recent memory. Not all of these refugees were greeted with open arms.
On this week's episode of "Connect the Dots," Exec. Producer Mallory Somera spoke with Dr. Coleen Kivlahan – Medical Director of the University of California San Francisco’s Human Rights asylum clinic and Chair of the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative – to catch up on the refugee crisis in Ukraine and discuss difficulties faced by different refugee groups as they search for shelter and security.
"In my 32 years of doing asylum and refugee work, I have never met anyone who said, I want to stay in the United States forever, or in Poland, they want to go home," Kivlahan said.
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