backed by a population filled with volunteers eager to join the fight. fresh video this morning of the ukrainian army here in the town of lviv moving into position. notice they don t have their helmets on because the fighting hasn t been very intense here in the city, but the rep weapons are in. you ll see soldiers moving around without magazines in their guns. the ukrainian regulars out here, the magazines are loaded. weapons are loaded, very much ready for combat. as far as what you see here in the city of lviv and around lviv, it s the flow of refugees trying to escape the fighting further east from here. the main route for egress or retreat, if you will, is through the west. the u.n. committee on refugees says as many as 50,000 refugees floated over the border yesterday.
we know in poland there is temporary housing being set up for ukrainian refugees. they established a medical train to get any injured ukrainians the medical help they need and for the first time we are getting images out of the border to the south of here and that is the romanian border as you have refugees trying to get away from the fighting as well. the fighting mostly has been intense overnight in the city of kyiv. the capital city which still stands, remains under ukrainian control. remarkable video of a missile strike or rocket strike or an apartment building there and the aftermath, the extent of the damage in the apartment building, we don t know it. the fighting in kyiv manifest in the form of small arms fire going street to street, somewhat more strikes coming in from the air. the ukrainians fighting back now report that they have downed two russian transport planes, il 76
350 million that the president is allocating to ukraine. i know, we don t know fully exactly what it entails, but do we get the sense that it s going to be what president zelenskyy has called for? we ve seen him saying that he s not getting getting exactly what he s needs. what ukrainian government is asking for here, they want more stinger missiles, they want missiles that are going to disable tanks and aircraft. that s something that the united states has made available to them in the past. it s unclear if this is going to include more of it as this fighting goes on. it becomes more difficult here, in particular as russia takes more control of this country, at least what officials were telling us really into today, into yesterday that the russian military hadn t fully gotten control over the air space the ukrainian military had an effective air defense missile,
there. great work and thank you for your service, sir. a high-rise apartment in kyiv was hit with a missile. let s check back in the steve harrigan who is live in kyiv. what s the latest? griff, there were several incidents of street fighting inside central kyiv. mainly small pockets of russian special forces moving to the city and engaging with ukrainian forces. we have seen a number of different occasions the president of ukraine zelenskyy post a video showing his people that he is still here, he s not leaving. talk about possible negotiations between ukraine and russia. here is russian president blackman putin s response to that president vladimir putin s response to that. it s easier for me to come to an agreement then the us gang of
continue to hold that back. we don t want to see buildings rumbled here in zelenskyy but it might come that that, griff. griff: stay safe, give it posted. steve harrigan live for us in zelenskyy. thank you. here in the u.s., stepping up security aide as ukraine desperately tries to battle against the russian invasion. let s turn a senior national correspondent live at the pentagon. good morning, rich. good morning, griff. white house says the president is instructing the state department to release something hundred $50 million in additional security assistance to ukraine. we aren t sure exactly what it s going to mean but the state department official tell us that they ll have more specifics on that in the weekend. that ll be the grand total the past year insecurity. the pentagon says the united states is also examining other ways to try here to help ukraine as its fighting, this