both linked to the military. jon: as we noted earlier, lviv has most of the bombardment throughout the work. now all of a sudden the missiles and bombs are coming in, i imagine the people there are nervous and probably thinking about heading out. exactly and what we will likely see, about 3.7 million people have fled to other countries, most going to poland from lviv like straight into commercial or arriving through but many others decided not, they are sleeping in theaters and warehouses, businesses have opened up floor plans to let people sleep insight and residents have welcomed people in. what we are seeing here is all hands on deck approach. restaurants are helping giving free meals, every industry has been disrupted in helping in any
40000 people for context that s roughly the size of a population of the center city washington d.c. there s no way to calculate at this point how many people are here because so many have poured in here in recent weeks from other towns and many of them are staying. many are continuing to other countries. trenches on the centered transit points to get into poland. people are taking the train there about 3.7 million people have fled the country for other places but still double the number of refugees here in ukraine with nowhere to go. is a crisis the likes by which we have not seen since world war ii. alex hogan live in lviv, ukraine. alex, thank you. president biden said the u.s. will help in europe s reliance on russian energy. and back at home gas prices well over $4 a gallon.
continue putting up heroic resistance as we look at these awful pictures but russia s relentless bombardments are taking their toll and there are growing concerns that putin may resort to weapons of mass destruction. chemical weapons, biological weapons or nuclear weapons, all four of those would being game changers. if russia does that there is going to be some very difficult decisions that are going to have to be made by, by the nato alliance. one would hope, one would pray that the russians would not make what would be a catastrophic mistake. trace: catastrophic indeed. we have team fox coverage of the war of ukraine. rich edson at the white house about president s latest comments about the putin and clean yawp. first to jeff paul. he is in the western ukrainian city of lviv. jeff? reporter: the mood has changed in lviv after these missile
only private cars can make it out of town if they are lucky enough. and despite 2,000 city [inaudible] territory of russia. people are separated from their families, their documents and they are sent to filtration camps in russia. russia kidnapped more than 2,000 children from the occupied parts of donbas and location remains unknown and lastly the ukrainian city lviv as you know, that s located less than 100 miles where the president of the united states of america
particular as well, james, thank you. we ll go back to lviv with more on russia s invasion of ukraine. vladimir putin s forces strike that city in western ukraine just 50 miles from its border with poland.