cities throughout poland and the eu. arthel: mike tobin live in lviv with more. mike, what is it like where you stand? mike: well, the train system really is a lifeline for the people out here particularly that train that comes from kyiv here to lviv. you don t need a ticket and the trains don t run on schedule. you turn on when the passenger cars are full the train heads off to lviv, the problem is only four trains leaf to poland. a lot of people piling up. there s not enough space to house them, there s not enough food to feed them. you have humanitarian crisis piling up here and you have it on the other side of the border. if people go by car, backup at the border stretched as listening as 30 miles. you have the imagery of people who have abandoned cars and taken what they can carry and walk for the border, the latest numbers from the unhcr, 1.5 million people have fled