towns just don t exist now. adding, quote, they are gone, the people are, gone they re gone forever. zelenskyy spoke with ukrainian prime minister yesterday, who is trying to act as a mediator. zelenskyy reportedly said he was open to meeting with russia s putin in israel, but only if a cease-fire was in place. the french president, emmanuel macron, and german chancellor olaf scholz hole held a 90 minute call with putin yesterday, where they push for an immediate cease fire, paired the french government. who described the talks as, quote, very frank and difficult. adding that putin showed no willingness to stop the war and sounded, quote, determined to obtain his objectives. according to the kremlin s account of the call, putin gave the german and french leaders are briefing, on the quote, real state of affairs in ukraine. joining me, now from lviv, ukraine. nbc s molly hunter, and in poland and bc s kelly cobiella. molly, i ll start with you. the overnight strike on the
is. there are animals coming, out there are little children you can see coming out. the police are, literally, escorting everyone who needs help into this area, where they are getting help. they, generally speaking, don t stay here in záhony. they go to other places, because this is a small town. they are on to budapest, vienna, warsaw, other places in western europe. the situation, we are covering, only stands to get worse with new news that we have. breaking news on the war front, this morning. russia has escalated this war in a major way. conducting missile strikes overnight, targeting a base that is 12 miles from ukraine s border. with the nato ally poland. that base is also known as the international peacekeeping and security center, it regularly hosts nato instructors, soldiers and drills. it is 20 miles northwest of lviv, which is a city we have been reporting from that has been considered safer. where refugees from central and
corridor we ve been talking about so much. the agreement with the cease-fires, with mary opal and other besieged cities. humanitarian aid gets in and civilians get out. we have not heard any success with civilians getting out of mariupol, but that humanitarian corridor, that convoy, that has been traveling overnight with 100 tons of humanitarian aid. we believe it is two hours from variable, so we will keep you posted if we hear any more on that, ali. all right, molly, thank you. by the, way we operate, we hear our control rooms and each other with easier pieces, as you know. the communication becomes difficult in places like this, sometimes a false, out that s what is happening with molly. but she is going to continue reporting for us in lviv. let s go to poland, kelly cobiella is there. kelly, you have generally been watching, as i have, the refugees coming in. but, now something more serious has developed. you ve had an attack that is 12 miles off the polish border. poland being a
armed with patriot missiles that can intercept missiles that come in. this is getting dangerously close to that war between russia and nato, that nato in the west have been trying to avoid. yeah, we have not yet heard from the polish government on the strike in western ukraine. but, we have been talking to people in poland over the last several days. we ve talked about how they have opened their homes, opened their hearts, come out in the tens of thousands to volunteer. part of the reason is they are so concerned about this country being drawn into war. they are worried that they could be next. we are actually at a village, just five miles from the border, yesterday. it s a village of about 500 people. they ve taken in about 80 refugee families. we spoke to an older couple, retired, couple in their 70s, and they said that the reason they took in refugees, and still have more space in their home, is because they re worried that they could be in this position soon. they can see ukraine
border, they re worried that if the war does, in fact, move farther west, closer to poland that, they could mistakenly, perhaps, be hit by a strike. there s a lot of concern in this country, even though it s a nato country. they feel slightly more confident, more secure because they are part of nato. but still, nerves are very rattled in this country. and have been four days. this strike, in western ukraine, will only add to that. and then, ali, we re talking about refugees coming over the border. people are still coming. there s also concern that even those flows of people could increase, even more, now that there s been a strike in western ukraine. ali? molly, you are saying we had not heard from the polish government yet. but give us some sense of the fact that, though it is a nato country, sorry, kelly, not