european leaders today, that is very dangerous, and really, kind of pushes us into a new phase of this ramped up russian aggression, jonathan. certainly good news that no radiation spike detected. but worrisome for ukrainians at that plant which supplies a lot of power to the country, it is now in the control of the russians who potentially have the ability to turn it off. give us the situation where you are in lviv today and your sense of the fighting throughout the country. so we came in to the country yesterday, jonathan, for a little bit of context. we crossed through one of the main border crossings with hungary. just for a little bit of context. we ve seen a lot of pictures out of that polish side of the border, with so many refugees running, 650,000 refugees crossing into poland, according to the u.n., more than a million people have fled the country. that is not even including of course all of internally displaced people. we crossed over from hungary, hungary has take been
there s been a colorful explanation, let s call it, from russian authorities about a doctor who was suddenly found to have radioactive particles in his body after treating victims of this month s mysterious explosion that killed five people at a russian military test site. russian officials are blaming bad seafood for his condition. even though the doctor treated patien patients where a radiation spike occurred. they told the doctor he likely ate crabs while on holiday in thailand. it s important to note that the few k fukushima accident happened in
reporter: russia and the u.s. are blaming each other for breaking the imf treat by. russia tweeting today, that there are superweapons in the works. we re obliged to secure our people and our country. we re doing this now and we will do in the future. as russia vows to develop new weapons, it is reeling from the malfunction of a missile it was testing, causing an explosion and a radiation spike in the north of the country and killing five nuclear specialists. russian opposition media is reporting two died of radiation poisoning. but authorities where the explosion took place, acknowledged today, one of the doctors who treated victims now has the radioactive isotope
macron to invite us to g7. they missed us. reporter: russia was kicked out of the group in 2014 after it invaded ukraine and annexed crimea. the decision was made during the obama administration but was approved by a majority of the member nations. still, president trump choosing to praise putin over his predecessor. because putin just smarted him, president obama thought it wasn t a good thing to have russia in. so he wanted russia out. reporter: despite trump s words, russia s leader is showing trump the cold shoulder saying russia is developing new advanced weaponry and even blaming the u.s. in part for a recent explosion during a botched russian weapons test that led to a radiation spike. translator: the tragedy in the white sea that took lives of our specialists happened during works on advanced weaponry. we are not hiding that. the people who suffered were doing critical work to citizen
race between u.s. and russia. that s a very real be possibility. let me ask you about this bizarre development today in that russian military explosion that killed those five scientists. officials confirmed that one of the first responders was found to have radioactive isotope with cesium 157 in his muscle tissue. you re hearing a strange explanation as to why. the russians said there was not a radiation spike, then there was. now, russian opposition media, this is key. is now reporting that two of the people were killed died of radiation poisoning. official russia has not con 23ir78ed that yet, however, they did confirm today that one of the doctors who was treating the victims has the seize yum isotope in his muscle tissue. now, they then said and this is where the explanation gets