we know in poland there is temporary housing being set up for ukrainian refugees. they established a medical train to get any injured ukrainians the medical help they need and for the first time we are getting images out of the border to the south of here and that is the romanian border as you have refugees trying to get away from the fighting as well. the fighting mostly has been intense overnight in the city of kyiv. the capital city which still stands, remains under ukrainian control. remarkable video of a missile strike or rocket strike or an apartment building there and the aftermath, the extent of the damage in the apartment building, we don t know it. the fighting in kyiv manifest in the form of small arms fire going street to street, somewhat more strikes coming in from the air. the ukrainians fighting back now report that they have downed two russian transport planes, il 76
also we know as far as the resistance goes, the effectiveness of the ukrainian resistance, we have reports that two russian il 76 transport planes were shot down to the south of lviv. those would ve been filled with paratroopers with insertion points in the south part of kyiv and there were about 30 miles apart from each other so the assumption is they were bringing some paratroopers to join the ground offensive as the russians are attempting to tighten the noose around the capital city of kyiv and encountering a great more deal of resistance and they had expected. riff? griff: i was asking steve harrigan about movement in the capital of kyiv but they are in lviv and you describe people getting out to evacuate peer but can people move around? how restrictive is it? are you seeing the locals there in lviv sticking around or are
no gunships, fighter jets, or strategic bombers. there are reports, early this morning, we have been up all night, we ve heard reports that ukrainian forces of shot down two russian il-76 transport planes. large transport planes that carries hundreds of paratroopers. one word of caution. the mobile phones have been active during this war here in ukraine on day three. seems like anything that s getting shot down or exploding it has been recorded. you would think that if two large russian transport planes were blown up or fell out of the sky, that would be the image people will be filming. here, we are located about six hours west of the capital, 40 miles east of the border with poland. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians of them passing through in their attempt to flee. cannot stress enough the humanitarian crisis that s happening here in ukraine. the country the size of texas, population greater than california. with all of the focus primarily
you know there has been some collateral damage. there is been significant damage among the russian forces. not the least of which is a couple of il-76 troop transport planes shot down to the south of kyiv. presumably they were loaded with paratroopers. they were shot about 30 miles apart from each other, 50 miles south of the city and presumably they were preparing for some paratrooper inserts to add to the number of russian forces trying to tighten the noose around the capital city, a capital city that still stands in a country called ukraine which also is still surviving in this fight, day three now this invasion. when it comes to supplies, we are seeing people take shelter in subways and images of empty store shelves as well. it s not a risk of food do, critical supplies going away.