buildings in that city have been severely damaged. you know, only if you believe that 90% of mariupol is a military installation, then would what the kremlin spokesman said seem valid. obviously we see in kyiv as well where we were, there were obviously homes that were badly damaged and homes that were completely destroyed. we saw a tennis club that was essentially lay to waste on the outskirts of kyiv. you have residential buildings that have been hit, apartment blocks as well. obviously not military areas. so in some cases, maybe there was military infrastructure stationed in those areas, but certainly not in all cases and certainly not 90% of mariupol as that city is also being laid to waste. there s so many other places in ukraine, don, where that s also the case. you take the town of chernihiv which is completely surrounded by russian forces and they re shelling into that area as well. so there is a large civilian
situation. and stirl there a still there a raining down, artillery fire that you can hear almost at all times. but over the past couple of days since the ukrainians have been able to push the russians back, the folks have that little more room to breathe. you can see more cars that are on the street that are out there, some traffic on the streets as well. what you do see is some of these units that you see here still making molotov cocktails. and we talked to those defense units and asked whether they believe that the russians will try to come back and how the situation is. let s have a look. old businesses are returning to work. we re more and more shops open every day. and you can see even, you nknow traffic is becoming much more de dense. this is a strong city and
the refugee crisis spurred by russia s invasion of ukraine is staggering. 4 million have thread the country. more than half of them to poland. kyung lah is in warsaw in the largest refugee center in europe. reporter: you are looking at the largest refugee hub in all of europe. all of these are cots, places where people have basically taken everything that they could carry and turned into their home. you can see that there are these little pods of blankets, children laying on some of these cots. there are cribs here. 95% of the people in this place in warsaw are women, children, and the elderly. they are the ones who have left safely out of ukraine. but the emphasis is that this is a hub. if you look at other parts of this expo center, there are
i really hope it will last. the ukrainian army and volunteer fighters have pushed russian forces east, sparing this port city, blocking russia s push to seize the country s entire western black sea coast. the supermarket are fully open, even if some shelves are empty and fresh milk is missing. they seem to do the mundane task of grocery shopping. he begins to tell us the russians stopped when his wife interrupts us to say, we re still afraid. on the surface, life seems to be resuming. most of its regular rhythms. but that s just the surface. all over the city, there are piles of these old tires, intend to be set alight to obscure the vision of invading russian forces and they re also among the tires, molotov cocktails.
that was by design. white house officials putting the speech together, carefully worded to send a very clear message, not just to ukraine, but the president made clear that the united states will stand with, not just to eastern europe where the president was standing in warsaw, poland. but to the entire warldorld abo the stakes of the moomt. but it wasn ad libbed line about putin not needing to be in power. the white house walking it back. but if you listen to the entirety of the speech, there is no question about it, this was a sharp speech with a very clear design, one that the president did not mince words on. take a listen. yesterday i met with the troops serving to bolster the frontline defenses. the reason we want to make clear, their movement on