superiority. everybody here in the ukraine we have talked to are willing to pick up a weapon and fight. some in ukrainian army taking up their positions in lviv. one of the things we ve seen an indifferent conflict you ll see soldiers walking around or they won t have their magazines in their weapon. what we ve seen here in lviv that the weapons are loaded and very much ready for combat as they took a position here in lviv. the fighting thus far has largely to bend to the east up here. there was fighting in the capital city of kyiv overnight which manifested itself largely in the form of small arms fire going street to street. artillery fire. we know there were some missile strikes in the capital city of kyiv. the fighting has been pretty intense in the area i should say lviv, the fighting is intense in the area around kharkiv, that is close to the
they getting out as well? it s a very different picture here in lviv and that s because the fighting is not so intense here in lviv bay there have been air strikes in the north and south of lviv and every day we ve heard the air raid sirens warning. as the sun is coming up, people are coming back out pit heading to the banks, trying to withdraw money. they had to the atms. i can see one atm from here and a couple of people are at it but by and large i ve seen the atm lines of gone away because the atms themselves have run out of cash but i attempted to withdraw some money and i could get about the equivalent of a dollar 50. getting money out of an atm is a little bit futile. initially when the invasion started, the foot traffic on the street looks normal. when you talked with people, there is always different because the reality of the invasion was descending.
telling people to stay in their houses. it s really hard to predict when fighting will break out, where the russians are, when they are going to come. people are told to stay in the house and for the most part it does look like a ghost town. you ll see somebody walking their dog but mostly people if they have not left, they are staying put. griff? griff: one more follow-up. are we starting to see any patterns in the last 24 hours as you take notice of what you are hearing and seeing around there in terms of the attack because we are hearing from you is officials, steve, that perhaps things aren t going as quickly as they thought. i m really hesitant to make predictions. we ve heard so many in this crisis about when the attack is going to come, where it s going to come and how effective it s going to be and a lot of people are saying the russians are bogged down. that worries me pair the russians are holding back considerable amounts of force. which most people hope they
city of kyiv. the russians have advance from three sides. from the north of the border of belarus, up from the crimean peninsula, and they ve come west from the border with russia and that s where you get that intense fighting that has taken place around the city of clark kharkiv. you see the flow of refugees as people try to get away from all that fighting. the road that goes from kyiv to where i am now in lviv, it s usually a six-hour drive. it s taking up to 18 hours now. the committee on refugees say that more than 50,000 refugees have poured more over the border of poland and will dole we know they ve established a medical train to take the injured to hospitals where they can get some care. and we ve got some new images of people crossing the border which is south of where i am now and that is the border into romania.
transport trains. you can compare them to the usc 17 that carry paratroopers. presumably these are filled with paratroopers that can carry as many as 100 troops at a time. these two went down to the south of kyiv. presumably they were heading to insertion points. another big blow to the russian forces bear the casualties appear to be mounting. they came and clearly not expecting as much resistance as they are getting. they have passionate patriotic ukrainian fighting force and civilian population very much engaged. griff: just quickly, i want to get a read with the mood there in lviv as the residents watching the defiance of their fellow countrymen and women standing up to russia in kyiv, the people in lviv looking to join this fight. very patriotic. we ve talked with veterans we