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Were learning details of an hour-long phone call where biden pledged an additional $500 millennium onin direct aid for ukraine. joining us now, jacob soboroff from lviv, and mike memoli at the white house. jacob, what are things like here in lviv. >> reporter: theyre as normal as things get here, jose, but normal is relative when the entire country is at war, until marshal -- martial law. cant be believe if you look at the facts on the ground. this is the city of 700,000 in the west of the count...

Fleeing for neighboring countries like hungary and poland, and an additional 6.5 million still in ukraine, but forced to leave their homes and seek safe shelter elsewhere. nbc correspondent jacob soboroff is still there on the ground in lviv. jacob, that video you took this morning is terrifying. how are you? >> reporter: were fine, jonathan. thanks for asking. you know, i think its important to note that here in lviv, although there was that russian airstrike a couple days ago on that aircraf...

Believe, who volunteered to be at the field hospital and treat those who are fighting in ukraine, as well as refugees. >> reporter: if i could just say real quick, i met him briefly. his name is adam. hes a trauma surgeon. hes there in case of traumatic injuries if the war were to come to this part of the country. he lives in washington, d.c., hell tell you more in the days to come. he is a trauma specialist just in case anyone needs him in the country. >> friends across the miles. thank you so ...

This way. as global leaders grapple with how to solve this conflict, the humanitarian crisis is continuing to grow. the united nations refugee agency estimates now that more than 3.8 million ukrainians have fled the country since the war began. in more than 2.2 million have fled right here to poland. later on in the, show i will be speaking with a teenage ukrainian who is doing their best to help refugees in warsaw, despite being one herself. for, now i want to go to ukraine. joining me now is j...

Has changed peoples posture and certainly the feeling of life here in the city of 700,000 people in the western part of ukraine near the border with poland. >> well, lets hope this date, march 26th, that is all that people in lviv see. we will have to certainly pay very close attention with your help as to what is next for the now-beleaguered city there of lviv having been attacked twice today. thank you so much, jacob, for that. lets go to nbcs josh letterman in warsaw, poland. of course, thats...

European trip. his final moments will be a major address about what is at stake in ukraines show down with russia. this all comes as russians have at least up until a few moments ago, halted their ground movements for now, according to a senior u.s. defense official. a top russian general was saying that their troops are focusing on the eastern donbas region, which could signal that moscow is giving up on capturing the capital city of kyiv, and on the rest of ukraine. although the kremlin is now...

Last night. jacob moving to ukraine in january was the only american to board a bus headed toward turkey was taken by russian soldiers at a checkpoint in crimea. he later appeared in a video on russian media and was unable to speak with his family for ten days. jacobs father is going to join us later this morning live on fox and friends to give us an update on his sons rescue. great news there. and developing this morning, shocking news in the music world as we learn foo fighters drummer taylor ...

City center, and as we just heard from jacob whos right there next to the scene, hes reporting that it is a fuel depot, and yes, alex, this has been, from my count, the third missile strike in and around lviv since the war began. the first one through a military installation, another through ammunition or fuel depot, and just a few days ago, there was an attack on an aircraft repair facility near the airport. this would be the third attack in lviv, and alex, as jacob pointed out, this is a city ...

When it looked like. fuel, to the south of where i am right now. that second strike was used as a repair facility, a maintenance facility for other types of ukrainian military infrastructure. here in lviv, people remain defiant, people remain out on the streets. and i think what people are asking today is, whats next? theres still critical infrastructure, youre looking again at the left-hand side of your screen, a picture from yesterday of that tv tower. the tv tower that remains behind me right...

Lviv in western ukraine. jacob, great to see you. these new attacks outside of kyiv, have they dampened hopes that the conflict is going to end anytime soon amongst ukrainians? >> reporter: im not so sure that their hopes were ever particularly high, yasmin. and thats based on what ukrainians live all across this country, day in and day out. you know, ukrainians heard russians say that they would be pulling back on attacks in kyiv, in chernihiv, and the opposite happened overnight. you heard fro...