the restaurant in lviv has no paying customers, but its kitchen is bustling. every day they prepare some 2,000 hot meals for those fleeing the fighting in the east. they started doing this on their own but now are being supported by chef jose andres and his world central kitchen. so, what s happening here? well, this is one of our partner kitchens. and the partnership happened like always happens before even we land. we contact them, sometimes they contact us. jose andres has been serving thousands of meals to refugees on the polish side of the border. but in the last few days, he s begun operating inside ukraine. this has been a very long effort. this conflict can go on for a long time. there are probably going to be more and more people fleeing cities and coming through. this is, before we know it,
endure. anderson, thank you very much. we ll check back with you. let s discuss these investments are michael bosser, a former spokesperson for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. he s also a senior fellow at the atlantic council and he joins us from lviv. as he has been for many years now, we re happy to see you. do you feel the onslaught getting closer to lviv now given that attack on the military base near there? oh, yeah, absolutely. this was after all in lviv, not that far from here and i poke to people who live on the outer edges and they felt the shock waves from those missiles as well as by the way, people on the polish side of the border. it was that close to the polish border. so, i mean, this was clearly a provocation from the russian side. alisyn, if i could pick up on something that clarissa said about the granularity of the meetings. in the past eight years, since
sides of the border. we re at a refugee camp on the polish side of the border and assisting with bringing supplies, helping with medical needs. you can see behind me, there are buses arriving everyday, yesterday and the day before 7000 people arrived at this refugee center we are at. we came from arizona and had community support and fund raised with incredible donations, we brought 800 pounds worth of medical supplies, some of the supplies are being used here on the polish side we were able to bring to this refugee camp and other supplies went over the border to the ukrainian side and on the ukrainian side the supplies are being distributed to soldiers fighting on the front lines and hospitals and clinics that have a shortage of supplies for medications like insulin and antibiotics and
kharkiv and they don t think it is safe enough to leave and they do not have food, water, heating and are really struggling and suffering right now. as the bombing and shelling continues. well, as i said, there are tens of thousands of people making their way to the west of the country and then heading to the poland and ukraine borderfor safety there, and my colleague can join us there now. my colleague mishal husain at the polish ukrainian border. iam about i am about eight miles on the polish side of the poland and ukraine border on the train station where we are today has become something of a refugee hub and relief centre in recent days. let me show you a little of what it is like here. this is what the mass exodus from ukraine means in human terms. people have made it to safety but it s a difficult situation that they find themselves in and here it is largely groups of women and children, so you see ukrainians and others of all
worst-case scenario, being captured, being used as propaganda, dying, getting hit by a rocket, just like i just heard, you guys talk about a bomb shelter that was just decimated, here i am getting ready to go into a bomb shelter, if you want to come over, sure. i actually do have some friends in the utah area that will come over. they will stay on the polish side. rent some vehicles, get ref goes. the other part is to donate money. we originally thought we wanted to ship supplies here, cost is so prohibitive. people venmo me, paypal me money. i can go out into the community, put that money back into the community, whether buying groceries, mattress like i did. that is what anyone for myself,