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Promised despite increased calls for ukraine. neil: thank you. you have heard about a change in russian military plans a month into this, frustration that the strategy is not panning out as the russian president hoped. looking at securing the danbas province, locking it down and taking it from there, might be a quick knee-jerk read of what the strategy might be, but the strategy has not gone to plan. let s get the latest from lviv. what are you seeing, jeff? reporter: russian forces might be changing their shift in focus on what they are targeting as some of them are pushed out from the capital city of kyiv. many cities throughout ukraine, ....
Affecting actual people if anyone has been hurt or killed but it is a communication tower. read into that however you want but i will take you through what happened. there were some air raid sirens which is weird because the last few days it has been fairly quiet and then you heard some rumblings, didn t know if it was a truck or a train and then confirmation on the ground, they believe, hasn t been confirmed, two jets had flown overhead and we heard reports about smoke billowing in the distance, north northeast of the city center where we are in lviv and then we heard it was a communication tower. we are all learning on the fly but a huge message likely being since not only to president biden but to the west. neil: a little more than ....
No less refugees coming through the border. in the last few days, 7 or 8000 refugees coming through the city. a very calm situation but ready for more just in case. i think after that situation, after that strike in lviv we can expect another wave, another huge wave. what i hope as mayor of lviv, refugees in lviv and waiting for the situation, that is what we can expect in a few hours and a few days, a lot of refugees coming through again and again. neil: all these innocent people, all the kids caught up ....
In the western part of the country, there is a different strategy in russia. that is a continuation of the strategy. we have been warning, flattery putin will not stop his aggression, on the polish border is not just the message to go in further. just receiving messages after messages from colleagues in lviv, everyone has been made to go underground. shifting more targets, whether this attended or not but in any ....
Aid that ukraine is receiving, and look, we should take a step back, right? we re one month, almost exactly, from the start of this invasion, and one month ago, plus maybe a couple of days, president zelenskyy was downplaying the threat of an invasion, was downplaying u.s. intelligence, saying that this was going to happen, that there would be a major invasion by russian forces, saying this country had been at war with russia since 2014. we now live in a very different world. we live in a world where there are 10 million internally displaced people here in ukraine, 4 million of them refugees and so what we heard today from president zelenskyy was a grateful president for all of the aid that is flowing in here. this morning, for example, alicia, we were standing in a parking lot in downtown lviv where i am, and they were unloading flak jackets and all kinds of military equipment in broad daylight. there it is. from a lithuanian group, blue and yellow, and they re bringing in aid into th ....