kelsey safe cal perry live for us in the border safe of lviv in the border of ukraine. kazakhstan, is a huge country we do not talk about very much but it is very very big. like ukraine, like russia, it used to be part of the soviet union. the country shares a massive border with russia, and is considered to be like belarus, one of russia s closest allies. nbc news is reporting that kazakh tan has refused a request from russia to send its own troops to join the war with ukraine. they also asked kazakhstan to join them in recognizing the two parts of ukraine that russia wants a claim for itself. kazakhstan also said no to that request. also, hours ago, china unimportant member of the un security council, abstain from going with russia. calling to an end for the meeting of the war against
it doesn t apply. but that s what people want. they want to no fly zone. they want to see harder sanctions. they want to see more from the west. they want bank transfers not to go through. they won anything from the west to not stop this advance. i heard them say if we are fading here, we re night we have heard that in the past and former conflicts, the idea that the ideology or that vladimir putin presents will spread further and further as this conflict goes on. people have been watching this on tv in the past few weeks they become familiar with some of this geographically. less with lviv. we ve mostly been talking about kyiv and cities in the east. lviv is where the diplomatic corps, and where a lot of people went from kyiv thinking it was going to be the safe place. in fact, there was some conversation about how the u.s. was prepared to evacuate the president, zelenskyy, to lviv. to keep him safer than he would be in kyiv.
become a support structure for the refugees coming here. and, again the attacks are happening so far, 350 miles away. there s a geographical barrier that people here are hoping and relying on. and again, 50 miles, away you not only on the border with poland, it s a european border, and the european union border. i think people here are hoping, at least hoping that putin will not come this far to the west, that he will not come this close to the border. certainly, i think that is the hope here. but there s an understanding that this war is a lot wider than people expected. people expected after hearing four weeks of the ukrainian president downplayed the threat, that the most they would see is fighting in the eastern provinces. clearly, this is a much wider battle, ali. play please stay safe, cal perry in lviv, ukraine, closer to the polish border that he is right now to the capital of kyiv. now joining me from przemysl,
poland, and learning to pronounce some of these names, a western border of poland and ukraine, it s really on the eastern side of poland, which is near the western side of ukraine, is nbc s kelly kobe. kelly, you ve positions since yesterday, what s the situation where you are? this continues to look like an arrival point for ukrainians. yes, ali. this is actually the przemysl train station. in normal times, it looks a lot like a train station now looks like an evacuation center you can see on our side of the fence, these are all families and friends who have come to this train station to see if they could find the relatives. on the other side, train platform and 1600 people, women and children, who have arrived this morning from ukraine. many of them came from love it, and the towns around live, but some also came from the capital of kyiv, making that terrifying trip from kyiv, across the country to lviv, and then trying to get on this train. so when they arrived over, here
make it into kyiv through the one remaining entry that has not been surrounded by russian forces. we ll see what tonight brings. john: benjamin, you are a brave man, stay safe. thank you. sandra: thank you. new to lviv, mike tobin is on the ground there. hi, mike. second round of ceasefire negotiations has concluded. the russian and ukrainian delegations met in a town across belarus border, it s about 400 miles northwest of the capital city of kyiv. most of the information comes from a member of the delegation, he says ukrainian needs were not met. therefore, no ceasefire. he did say that some agreement was struck regarding humanitarian corridors but the ukrainians called that the minor program. so, no ceasefire to this point. the russians say what they want