conclusions may be, the world knows that russia bears ultimate responsibility for this incident. that is secretary of defense lloyd austin agrees with polish president duda that a missile that struck a polish border town appears to have been launched by ukraine in defense against russian missiles. the two leaders also agree while ukraine may have launched the missile, the blame ultimately falls on russia as its war on ukraine continues. joining us now, columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ige ignatius. and former fbi special agent and national security analyst for nbc news, clint watts. good morning to you all. clint, let me start with you, just on your assessment of how this has shaken out. when this news broke a couple of days ago, russia has landed a missile inside poland, a nato member, what s next, and slowly and surely, intelligence
the invasion from russia. we are creating our plan how to host those people. flexibly visited the town it right on the ukrainians/polish board of her people there are scared for the filth russia takes ukraine that vladimir putin will come for more. we did not find a lot of affection and this polish border town for the ukrainian neighbors. but even if the people did want to help the refugees, if they materialize they may simply be too many. and my opinion, we should not take them in. the ukrainians are worse than the russians. our town is too small, we do not have infrastructure to accommodate refugees. the ukrainians have been immigrating to poland for the last eight years ever since the
things stand at the moment, all of the initiatives are in the russian s hands. ., ~ , ., the initiatives are in the russian s hands. ., ~ , ., ., the initiatives are in the russian s hands. ., ~ ., ., ~ ., , hands. thank you for talking to us. pleasure. and i were talking to talking to 100,000 people who have left their homes in ukraine trying to escape the russian invasion. we are now going to talk to stuart mckenzie, who left his home of almost 30 years this morning and has made his way to a polish border town with his family. stuart, thanks for talking to us. where did you live in ukraine, where was home? in kyiv itself. i ukraine, where was home? in kyiv itself- i live ukraine, where was home? in kyiv itself. i live outside ukraine, where was home? in kyiv itself. i live outside the ukraine, where was home? in kyiv itself. i live outside the city - itself. i live outside the city centre, and i lived on the west coast of that. i was very close to the road to poland, which was
civilian targets in the cities, that seems to be their actual war plan not to fight the ukrainian soldiers but ukrainians themselves and instill terror in the cities. you and have seen this before in chechnya. we understand where this is going and what russia means when they say they re going to escalate. giving shelter to the displaced both in and outside ukraine is becoming a challenge as we were discussing, but ukrainian mothers and young children were able to find refuge in a theater in a small polish border town. dozens of refugees are sleeping there side by side you see them there under borrowed blankets and fold out cots. this is just enormous. more than 3.3 million refugees have already fled ukraine. the u.n. as was saying says another 6.5 million people have been displaced inside ukraine. again, that s 1 in 5 ukrainians at this point. cnn s sal muabdelaziz looks at
if we cannot improvise anymore, we need to show to putin that we are strong, the two are united , that he s not to destabilize us with another wave of refugees divided administration has also pledged $1 billion in humanitarian aid, but nonprofits are struggling to deliver what they already have to those inside ukraine. american trauma medic jason voss tells fox volunteers need help from the state department to expedite the delivery of medical narcotics into ukraine for the treatment of war injuries. ketamine, any type of opioid analgesics, painkillers. it s very difficult for us to get that across the border because worshiping narcotics across the border we can t just walk across without all the paperwork. things are going to get probably worse before they get better and the things that we can t get across the line because of the bureaucracy involved. the bottom line is this refugee crisis is far from over . the mayor of qamishli, a polish border town, tells us that his town is still w