mr kuleba reiterated his desire and optimism for more military backing from nato, specifically a no fly zone. mr blinken is touring nato s eastern european member states. 0ur correspondent kasia madera, is on the poland ukraine border. it s just a huge movement of people. if you just put it into context how many people are travelling in such a short space of time. this is korczowa, yet another bus that has come just from the border. these people have made the crossing into poland and now they re being asked to come off the bus so that they can go inside and just get a little bit warmed up. bear in mind what these people have gone through. they ve just crossed the border into poland and all of theirjourneys to get to this stage have been long, exhausting and uncertain.
and his response to me was we only have a few because we only have a few mig fighters and we would be outmanned and outnumbered in the skies and it would be a suicide act to be able to go up and fly against these things. if we had twenty eight more it would balance the skies and it would make the fight more fair and they would be more effective than javelins and more effective than stinger missiles. and that was a very interesting interview and a very interesting point he was making today. certainly you can see how ukrainians have ukrainians in the ukrainian government would want more and more military backing whether that be javelins and stingers, whether it be mig fighters. obviously they want as much hardware as they can get because they re arrayed against one of the strongest fighting forces in the world in terms of russia. so you can see how they would think give us more planes, we can fly more sorties, we can take out more of those russian
to stay in the country. they are also expecting many more people to come here, but of course, the ongoing shelling of people in places like matthew paul, where there was a humanitarian corridor promised, never actually happened in mario paul. because of that breach they say that many people are trapped but they will try to make their way here to the west. yalda hakim in lviv. the us secretary of state antony blinken has met ukraine s foreign minister telling him that he was in all of his courage in standing up to russia. the men met at the poland ukraine border. the ukrainian minister reiterated his desire for more military backing from nato, again adding to calls for a no fly zone. antony blinken is touring nato s eastern european member states. caja madeira is on the poland ukraine border.
nato. european council and the g7. he s expected to announce new sanctions against more russian politicians and oligarchs. leaders will discuss ways to reduce europe s dependence on russian energy going forward, and this is where sanctions could hit a sticking point. nato will approve the deployment of four battle groups to further protect the alliance s eastern flank and the uk is set to announce a support package that includes 6,000 missiles and $33 million in military backing. now, ahead of these urgent meetings, the u.s. took a major step. it formally declared that russian forces have committed war crimes in ukraine, as russia s attacks increasingly strike civilian targets. and we are now seeing the carnage left behind after days of fierce fighting. we want to warn you, some of the images that you are about to see are graphic. in izyum, in the east of the country, a man filming video shows us charred buildings,
announce a support package that includes 6,000 missiles and $33 million in military backing. now ahead of those urgent meetings, the u.s. took a major step. it formally declared that russian forces in its estimation have committed war crimes in ukraine as russias attacks increasingly strike civilian targets. and we re now seeing the carnage left behind after days of fierce fighting. i want to warn you as always, some of the images are graphic. in izyum in the east of the country, a man filming video shows us charred buildings, splintered trees and bodies lying right there in the streets. to the south in the hard hit city of mariupol, new video shows a street littered with debris, a number of damaged cars and several bodies. mariupol has suffered tremendously over the last several weeks. and in the city of chernihiv, northeast of kyiv, the capital, these are the first images following intense shelling by russia. you can see rubble in the streets, badly damaged building,