Was here in d.c. last week, i met with him, at the time, this was just a week ago, he said they haven t seen any changes in the situation in the breakaway rege championship borders, between moldova and ukraine. now, of course, we ve seen explosions there. i think it s testament to the fact that vladimir putin still has tricks up his sleeve. right. on friday, we heard from a russian commander who was saying that the russian new goal was to push west along the coast of the ukraine to reach the moldovan borders. american analysts are skeptical, whether they can do that based on taking cities in ukraine. but russia has other leaders in which to try and destabilize moldova which is another country much smaller than ukraine. has less than 3 million population that has hoved between russia and the west in the years but more firmly in the western camp may seek to pull
Hear is about six hours by car. we talked with a couple this morning that took them 14 hours as the main road in a giant traffic jam in, the u.n. committee for refugees say it s a record so far as of yesterday, some 50,000 refugees pouring over the polish and moldovan borders. that is the border with romania. you have many people trying to flee this country at least on the polish side setting up some temporary housing to deal with the ukrainian refugees. they established a medical train to get any injured ukrainians to the medical care that they need. the fighting has been most intense to the east up here. in the capital city of kyiv, it has manifest largely in the form of small arms fire going straight to street, artillery fire and some missile rockets, one of them hitting a high-rise apartment building.