complication you could say for people on the ground here. these cities are incredibly stressed about ukrainians want to go home. they are trying to stay as close to their loved ones as possible. and now, with the target in lviv this bombing or missile attack again we are not sure what it was. it is going to make those people who were hiding in the city of lviv really start to think about all right, perhaps it s time we make the journey across the border which is only going to be even more of a lift for countries like poland. griff: the crisis is growing indeed. aishah on the live ground and krakow, poland. gillian: for more on the news this morning joining us live from kyiv chairman of the foreign ukraine committee. thank you so much for taking the time for us this morning. what are you making as the images we are now seeing this
lviv as it appears to be a huge strategy shift for the russian military and the ukrainian city of lviv were millions of internally displaced ukrainians are hiding out fearfully right now. we are talking about 2 million at last check from the united nations that have moved from central and eastern ukraine into the western city of lviv. basically hiding out there. wondering if they should cross the border. now they might actually make the decision to cross the border because we are seeing this attack just happened a few moments ago. the president today didn t get to meet with the refugees. finally said he was disappointed just about 60 miles of the border yesterday he was not. he visited a soccer stadium he got to talk to mothers, he got to talk to children, some of them stopped him and started speaking to him and ukrainian.
attack in lviv? this is terrible. putin deliberately targets civilian and residential areas. to me it is a signal which he is trying to send not only to ukraine to show there is no safe place in the territory of ukraine. it is also a signal which he is trying to send to poland, to show what might happen to poland, who can beat next if ukraine falls. it also is trying to send a signal to american president who is right now in poland. he has infamous and likes to blackmail and scare countries. it s his attempt to scare the united states, nato and poland. gillian: s or are you hearing anything more specific this morning about the target? do we know what came under attack? we have heard different reporting from different
in other news, a ferry operated by p&0 has been detained in northern ireland because of fears about staff training. and tributes from across the music industry for taylor hawkins the drummer with the rock band, the foo fighters who s died at the age of 50. a very warm welcome. a number of powerful explosions have been heard near the western ukrainian city of lviv. they came as president biden was preparing to deliver a set piece speech in the polish capital warsaw, accusing russia of trying to strangle democracy. these pictures are believed to show a fuel storage plant which was hit earlier in the day and officials later confirmed that defence facility was also hit. according to the city s mayor, five people have been injured.
most of this conflict the west of ukraine has lived relatively untouched by russian forces. that ll change today, griff. griff: jeff, just as we await for the president s speech, we can see behind you there are cars coming down the street there in lviv and downtown where you are and while people are on edge and that has not seemed to stop activity and, of course, we should point out to our viewers you re not seeing the russian forces on the ground in lviv as you are in the eastern parts of the country as well as in the capital near the capital. jeff: yeah, this attack happened about a mile away from the city center. it s still lviv, it s a mile away. we are not seeing any change in activity within the city. people are still going about their day. we just saw people walk their dogs by here, cars are still going by, life is going about as normal as possible and it s been like that for essentially the last week or so that we have been here and people here truly believe that that s part