not just ukrainians fleeing from hundreds of thousands of russians as well, it s an exercise going on the computer, i train moscow or helsinki, you won t find trains available the next few weeks. jon: lucas thomason in lviv ukraine, the idea of bringing in aircraft from poland, former soviet states ukrainians would be able to fly, that would make a huge difference if they could attack russian rocket launchers and missile silos sites doing such terrible damage to cities like kyiv. this is the soviet equivalent of u.s. air force air superiority fighter and attacking targets on the ground. that would make a difference. contested airspace in ukraine, ukrainian jets are still flying and third-generation defendant
three days ago announced nearly $53 million in additional support, on top of the 300 million we have provided in recent years. usaid has a disaster response team, top international emergency responders in coordination with partners and samantha power was in poland along of the border with ukraine a few days ago along with other senior officials from the state department. and we are working to support the front line countries, including poland, moldova, romania, slovakia, accepted hundreds of thousands of refugees, including children, elderly people, people with disabilities, fleeing ukraine to escape russia s violence and harrowing journeys to reach safety. we and our allies and partners will work to keep people safe,
particularly retired military, eager to pick up a weapon and online the fight. and that is often where we get the scenes of the tearful good-byes as the women and children will head for the border and try to flee the fighting, the men join the fight. so unexpected and nobody was prepared to this situation. and we believe the number of refugees was predicted to reach between 1 and 5 million. we are now getting close to the 1 million number with the u.n.a.c.r. saying 875,000, 874,000 refugees have fled to the west. most are heading into poland, but heading into slovakia, hungary, and romania, a few are going into belarus and on the eastern side of the country, of course a lot of fighting there. you have about 40,000 people plus heading into russia to get away from the fighting.
difficult including nord stream two. we see a different germany now, a different nato in poland becoming frontline tornado. i think the russians don t see a way out. that s what s different about this. both economically and politically in this particular work. jon: the man most surprised by unity of nato is vladimir putin. we will see how this plays out. fox news contributor, thank you. coverage continues on russia s invasion of ukraine, who call back to reporters on the ground in ukraine next.
no-fly zone or deny want avoid work with nuclear power, and russia is destroying his forestry but when the war is over, ukrainians will roll up their sleeves and build a more beautiful country. blinken toward a welcome center for refugees and poland, officials say about 3000 from ukraine were there this afternoon told us of escaping horrific assaults from russian forces and spoke with a woman who knew very little english and pulled out her phone and google translate told us she could not convey the horror she and her family have gone through, they were hiding in a seller. refugees are coming here, that will be part of a conversation secretary of state will have in a few hours here. part of the issue here according to the foreign minister, he says the country has welcomed a number of them in for the problem is the government is reaching where they will no longer be able to provide