with your fellow ukrainians, it s pretty impressive. thanks very much again for taking the time out to talk to us. lisa is a member of the ukrainian parliament. i want to tell you whether i am right now. this is the rail station in hungary, where i started two weeks ago when i first came to central europe. we re expecting a train any minute now, one of the special trains that bring refugees in from the border, they cross over, get on another train and come in. we ll bring you that live when it happens. obviously we re up to about 300,000 refugees who have come into turkey. in an emergency meeting of the united nations security council on february 24th, that was the start of the russian invasion. ukraine s ambassador to the u.n. held nothing back addressing his russian counterpart telling him, quote, there is no purgatory for warm criminals they go straight to hell. what is a war criminal exactly and what constitutes a war crime, next on velshi. crime, ne. i use liberty mutual,
zones but the afghans were able to force the soviet army out. at this point does the performance and success of the ukrainian resistance help other countries decide to go in and help them or are they going to have to win this on their own? it s a tough one. i think with the political lines, nobody is going to actually enter the ground or shoot at a russian themselves without escalating it. i think the ukrainians can do this with the support that is being flown in, and that support needs to continue. the doors like in lviv are storying to close getting resources to them. no matter what urban warfare takes ammo. it takes four times the ammo, guns, resources, food, to fight in urban combat and they need that to continue. with that, they have a chance of exhausting the russian military and the political state that putin is in.
hedgehog. we have transportation used as defenses to block roads, we know that the military had blown up a bridge to halt russian further advances. so the army is preparing. we know that street by street, the military is imposing severe defenses to hold any possible attack in the city. we know that the city right now looks like a fortress. and according to ukrainian military it s practically impossible to breach those defenses right now. one of the things that s interesting is we heard that ukrainian forces and civil defense are really taking defensive positions more than offensive positions because of a shortage of ammunitions compared to russians and equipment. but more ammunition, equipment and hardware is coming in for ukrainians. obviously that stuff can t get into kyiv. at what point do the ukrainians
been killed in this unprovoked war, more than 1,000 injured. but russian forces have been met with heavy resistance from ukrainians. russian forces have not made significant advances toward the city and are roughly 18 miles to the east of it. joining me is alexi who is in kyiv right thousand, the chief operating officer and political editor for the kyiv independent, one of the largest english language media outlets. thanks for being with us. what is the situation in kyiv right now? we have been hearing for weeks that the russians are getting close and they re around it and there are skirmishes and shelling going on in the city, but what s the situation where you are? well, first of all, i m currently not in kyiv. i had to leave and take my family to safety. but our newspaper obviously has people on the ground.
msnbc. this is a special train that has just come from the border and another group of refugees will be getting off these trains. we ve been following these arrivals for two weeks, some of the trains have upwards of 500 people on them. most of these are called special trains, they re added, generally speaking based on the number of refugees that have come in at any given time. this train has likely come from one of the border crossings that i was at last week. what happens is that ukrainians stop on the other side of the border, go through their formalities, then they get on another train that takes them just across the border to hungary and there they wait for trains that take them to destinations they ll be going to, in this case budapest, but some to vienna or other places like that. you re seeing people get off the train, you are seeing some