their fires become more d dischdis discriminate. they re opening this center as soon as possibly tomorrow. what you see on the ground here, they re all cots that still need to be set up. they have a bunch of volunteers set to help out here. that s all food, clothing and water. they re bringing trucks in when they get them, and there is a big kitchen back there they are preparing for. 320,000 ukranian refugees have come into romania so far, but 234,000 have left on to other areas, poland, germany, other areas of europe. but the need is growing. they are going into moldova, they re coming across the border everywhere, and as the russians move toward odesa in the south,
reporting about the conflict in ukraine. the fact that the mcdonald s shuts down is a demonstration to ordinary people beyond what they ve already gotten, that this is a very difficult hit, a very difficult blow that the west, the united states, the european union have leveled on russians. it s a very tough time in the russian economy and it s going to get tougher. we re expecting defaults of russian corporations on their debts to the west. the pain is only starting economically for the russians, and the question is going to be how do they respond? dmitri peskov says the united states has declared economic war. the u.s. doesn t have an escalating war with a nuclear power as if it s a military war. there is some conflict here but amer russians are definitely feeling the pain.
united states of waging an economic war against putin. john, what are you hearing about this? kate, that is a reflection of what the motorist in that clip you played was reflecting. yes, the united states is having some pain win flatioth inflatio rising gas prices. but it s really hurting russian individuals right now. you have interest rates doubled to 20% as a result of these sanctions. capital controls, people can t take dollars they ve been storing in russian banks out. you have a hometown domestic russian automaker shutting down production because it can t get replacement parts to keep its factory line going. tremendous hardship for russians, and the departure of some of these iconic american companies suspending operations, mcdonald s, for example, that simply is a high-profile demonstration to ordinary russians of how things have changed. that s a pretty critical element of this, because you ve got russian controls on media
putin and the russian army are repeating what they did before in all the military conflicts, the same they did in chechnya, the same they did in georgia, the same they did in bosnia and ukraine in 2014. as soon as they start losing war on the ground, they start using civilians as a tool of war. they start attacking civilians and officials in the country they attack. for me it is no surprise. russians are doing like russians. they never respect human rights, they never respect human beings, and now we have repeated cases of war crimes against civilians, and today s attack on the hospital in mariupol, it s not the first case in the last seven or nine days, and unfortunately, i think it s not the last case. i am afraid they will continue to do so, again, to use this as an argument in the decisions
terms of casualties and deaths. we re still trying to get more information on that. mariupol is also one of the cities that ukraine has agreed with the russians to open a humanitarian corridor on today. it is unclear the status of how those evacuations have been going, if they ve been going at all. it s been a patchwork of successes and failures in a corridor they agreed to. for instance, in hodar where russians are in control of the nuclear power plant there, there are people getting out of that city. same with sumy in northeastern ukraine which has been taking an absolute pounding from the russians as of late, and same thing with irpin. we know things are moving there. that s a suburb just used kyiv. other places like bucca, another kyiv suburb, the russians have actually blocked the convoy from going along that corridor so far. that is the latest word we have