ukraine, that s very important. one other thing, often people think the trauma side of this, the mental health side of this is a sideshow. it s absolutely central. every single person is traumatized by what they and their country are going through and, of course, they don t know how long this is going to go on. the response in germany where i also was, people i met, they were housing ukrainians and it s one thing to do it for two days, two weeks, two months. they don t know if this is going to be two years and that s requiring a massive mobilization. of course, if the sort of fighting that your previous guest jennifer from the institute from the study of war, if that fighting carries on, if that offensive carries on, you can have another 5 million fleeing into europe and that becomes a huge logistical as well as political challenge. so what you re describing is a situation that s fairly normal because you re not in the places where there was the most active fighting going on but were
providing to the ukrainians, which is essential, but the ukrainians still need more. they need a more robust pipeline which means these weapons and reply needs to get to the ukrainians before they need it, not at the last minute. but the ukrainians are also asking for more advance systems and systems that will provide them more range, which is going to be essential as ukrainians attempt to go on the counteroffensive, which requires them to strike russian targets in more depth and overpower russian forces who are attempting to dig in in order to prevent exactly those kinds of losses to ukraine. jennifer, that is a fascinating center inside. thank you so much. next on gps, the humanitarian crisis caused by this war. nearly 6 million refugees have fled ukraine and those are the ones who are lucky enough to have gotten out. when we come back.
horror. civilians under attack in nikalaiev. watch the man turn and run as shells rain down around him. local officials say nine people were killed in russian bombardment yesterday. we are learning two people were killed, three others wounded after shelling hit another kyiv residential building. as of now, the united nations says more than 2.7 million ukrainians have fled their home country since russia invaded. 2.7 million people on the move. cnn s salma abdelaziz joins us live from lviv, ukraine. salma, what more do we know about the russian air-strikes, not far from where you are right now? what are the implication for the western alliance? reporter: christine, let s start by talking about the strike on that military base yesterday. i was actually just on the perimeter of that base after the strike trying to find out more about what happened. and i m going to tell you why it s so important. it s called the international
russia s lost thousands of troops so far. the economy has paid a punishing price as you were just discussing with jasmine. the ruble has crashed. the stock market s been closed. oligarchs are getting squeezed. so there is punishment being inflicted on russia as well as on ukraine. both sides are going to have a limit. we don t know what that limit is. that s why you keep having these efforts at talks both directly between ukrainians and russians, but also with people like israel and france as intraoperatives trying to figure out if there is an off ramp. don t see one at the moment. eventually we ll get there. we just don t know when. john, let me ask you about gas prices. we heard the white house and the president of the united states talk about putin s premium in the oil market. putin to blame for the hike in gas prices. the u.s. barely uses russian oil, but it is a global market. if there s a problem in russia there is a problem for everyone with gas prices. how should the presiden
well, intelligence, number one. we can tell where these things are coming from. sharing that with the ukrainians, giving them more counter fire radar so they can identify the point of origin. more longer range systems that help them reach where those things are coming from. and especially anti-ship missiles because russian navy black fleet ships that are launching missiles into mariupol. we have to text them. with doing that well enough? no. we are not yet at the speed and the quantity that is needed. now, u.s. logistics is the best in the world once we get going. and i would anticipate within a week or so it s going to get better. but in the meanwhile, we started too late frankly. so we also have new satellite images this morning. one showing a bridge built across the irpin river, and another image shows that bridge