and across europe. there would be a desperate sense of inability to confront this evil, this vile. that does not mean that the we have a simple solution tomorrow to turn this all off, no. but that sense of panic is not there. that sense of desperation is not there. where is there is a sense of unity, providence, and strategy and that is the critical difference between these two presidents. john thank you, thank you for talking us tonight. and the numbers are growing, more than 150,000 ukrainians fleeing their homeland. and wondering if they will ever be able to return. we ll take you to one crossing where ukrainians are seeking refuge from the insanity of the new reality. refuge from the sainnity of th new reality.
i ve seen a lot of social media that we don t care about ukraine because of the treatment they are affording the african immigrants just like european citizens are white folks in ukraine. i tell folks we have the right tom ambivalent on this. dr. king told us so many years ago, we have the right to be concerned about ukrainians and the humanitarian crisis because of the escalating war. we also have a right to be concerned about immigrants most lit from africa being denied refugee status in poland and be warm and receiving to all refugees. we ask ukrainian people get your footprint together and include africans in the universe and consider their safety.
poland, to other countries. there are internally displaced people who are staying, who want to try to wait it out, who believe in their country, who want to try to stay in the west to see if the fighting ceases. finally, alex, i want to pause for a second because during our hit there is a group of elderly ukrainians below our balcony singing ukrainian folk songs, i want to pause for a second to see if you can hear that. it s a little hard to hear because there is so much traffic. i wish i could have heard that, that would have certainly brought a lot of positive spirits to all of us who are watching, and watching russia so flagrantly violate these agreed-upon rules of a cease-fire for humanitarian aid, it is drawing the ire and damnation of the world. let s go to efforts to the
they are gonna take the cities. they won t take the whole country. and they won t be able to subjugate these people. yeah, i wonder, some of the things that may seem like, at least from the military strategic long point standpoint being not game-changers, but i mean key accumulative to the fact and the well of people that you have just talked about. the men who are all saying behind with her fights. the women who are choosing to stay. women my age, young women. people who have never held a gun before are walking around with ak-47s. this is something you and i talked about when we first spoke for five days ago when you are still in ukraine. and that was still about a home field in vantage. we saw ukrainians taking down signs, we re not even gonna give even that to know exactly where they are. and the idea that they know their cities, they know their countryside. they know, strategically enough,
fighting goes into its fourth day. just hours ago, russian vehicles broke into kyiv. that is the country second merger city. ukraine officials sharing this video of fire and smoke from an oil pipeline there, claiming it was well enough by russian forces. ukrainian president zelenskyy called last night brutal. and accused forces of attacking civilian areas where there is no military infrastructure. the leader, rejecting the russian talks for belarus today, because they say was complicit in the invasion. they wanted another location, perhaps poland. meantime, ukrainians are fleeing the nation that they called home. they are saying now more than 200,000 refugees have crossed the border into neighboring countries. that is a larger estimate than we had just a short while ago. allison is in belarus, poland. alison, where refugees have