and now that all the major american and european companies have left russia, now people start to realize that something is really off. all right. karina orlova, a russian journalist speaking with me earlier. i ll have a lot more at the top of the hour from lviv. for now, back to paula newton in atlanta. coming up for us here on cnn newsroom, they were forced to flee ukraine after russia launched an attack. but when these nigerian medical students got to the border, they say they suffered discrimination. we will speak to them after the break. hou r freshness and 1/4 moisturizers in.n. dove 0% aluminum deodorant is kinder on skin and now it s refillable fofor life.
miguel marquez, cnn, bucharest. if you would like to help people in ukraine who need shelter, food, water please go to cnn.com/impact. you will find several ways to help and so many have been so generous already. i want to thank you for keeping me company here. i m paula eaton. early start is up after a quick break. we want to leave you though with another lovely edition. this musical composition from a 9-year-old piano prodigy. he wrote this in hopes to send peace to ukraine.
missiles and antitank systems. ukraine has told the u.s., paula, that it needs about 500 of those every day. all right. our thanks there to phil black who s live for us from ukraine. natasha bertrand in busless and kevin liptak in poland. steven erlinger is with us now from budweiser lynn. good to see you as we continue to follow now going into the second month of this conflict. we were just talking about the unity among the allies. obviously it s impressive and yet we re just a month in here. what could challenge that united front, especially as we expect this to go on at least for months, if not years? well, i think that s right. this is grinding. this is the way russians do war. i think the whole point of biden s visit was to say, yes, we re a month in and we have a long way to go so don t get frantic now because, you know,
than 2 million refugeeness poland, okay, it s been a few weeks. it will be a few months and then a few years. i don t think people in other parts of the world appreciate what a burden that puts on a country like poland. paula, you re absolutely right. poland has been a friend to ukraine for a very long time. western ukraine used to be poland. there are a lot of ties, family ties, ethnic ties. the poles care about this. they re getting help from the eu. biden promised them help. these are largely women and children. the men stayed home to fight. so you don t have the same kind of sometimes racist tropes that we had with the 2015 migration when a lot of young males were coming. and so this feels different and
poland. the other issue the president is certainly focused on is security assistance and reassuring poland that nato and the united states have its back as this war continues, and you heard some of those anxieties yesterday. the polish prime minister decided that he mused potentially vladimir putin in one or two years could have his sights on warsaw. when the president speaks with the 82nd airborne that will be him reinforcing this notion that the united states is here to support poland going forward, paula. kevin, we ll wait for all of that to unfold in the coming hours. appreciate it. now we want to go live to the ukraine and our phil black standing by for us. phil, good to see you. zelenskyy s pleas have been more urgent and blunt. when you listened to him on thursday, he was quite impatient. what is he asking for now in terms of military aid? is there more of a realistic time line for when ukrainian officials may get some of those