problems. logistics and planning. you talked about a potential failure of intelligence to understand what they were up against in ukraine. we think that s true too, but they re also making missteps and stumbles when it comes to just sustaining themselves and their forces. they re running out of fuel, running out of food, so they re having problems of their own in that regard as well. yet the sheer numbers, i mean, a bulldozer without an effective steering wheel can still do a lot of damage and it s clear from talking to reporters on the ground, and i m sure you have your own sources on the ground, that the toll this is taking on the country, 1.7 million refugees and counting, many of them women and children as young men can t leave, i wonder what you say when ukrainians are calling as loudly as they can for the west to do more. what is your response? well, we are doing more. we have stepped up and accelerated and expedited shipments from the president s
we ve seen scenes like this before in europe. every russian has lived or learned about the horrific siege of liningrad during world war ii. that siege affected millions of russian families, including president putin s, whose 1-year-old brother is one of the many victims. the world is saying to russia, stop these attacks immediately. let the food and medicine in. let the people out safely. also in latvia, our colleague, josh lederman, who got a close look at nato s response force and the u.s. troops training there. here, he s speaking with the commanding general, brigadier general joseph hilbert. the first time article v was invoked was for the united states. right, after 9/11. absolutely. and how far is new york city from here? i don t want to guess the thousands of miles, but 30 members or at the time the
vans, trucks, buses full of people. it takes a long, long time to get over the border, and next to them, you ve got hundreds of people on foot trying to do the exact same thing, and they might have been on the road for a very, very long time, but what we ve seen in poland when we were just two days ago before crossing into ukraine is a very well-organized humanitarian effort. when these people cross into poland, they will get warm food, a warm blanket, a place to sleep for one or two days, but most importantly, what they get the orders is transport. they get a possibility to move on to other places. a lot of them don t get stuck on the border. there could be friends or family who will drive them somewhere else to their destination, and the thing that s really edifying that you re going to see on the border, on the polish side, is you ve got volunteers holding up signs with countries that they are willing to drive to and are looking for people to join them
power and heat soon. a fire fight on friday night surreal because we have a fire fight at a nuclear power station and could be ten times worse than chernobyl. the civilians think if they control the power station and flip the power off how do we stay here? the city of lviv a place to travel through, losing power there s a question what will we do? how does that work? do you have this secondary exodus to the border. millions of people displaced in this country. 5 million people are already in need of food. how bad does this get? and nobody seems to have an answer to that question. you are our eyes and ears and
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