glass is just broken and you can feel sometimes blood rushing through your veins. earlier tonight we heard sirens, a common occurrence here in the town, people are scared and nervous. we spoke to one foreman earlier who said she thinks russian holder should go to help. learn the language and the history of his country. jon: a little more about paul, former american soldier you spoke to, a former army sergeant, what is he doing that? former member of the airborne division, veteran of the iraq war, he s here and lives in ukraine for about a year and wants to take up arms and fight russians to help ukrainians. many people feel passionate about this in the last hour marines here to fight, a lot of people are passionate he says he s here with a platoon of americans, former american
latest. hundreds of thousands of refugees in the city of western ukraine located 40 miles from the border, not everybody linked the country, some are here in lviv for the city has opened arms and refugees today, makeshift kitchens and some have come to fight the russians including former british marines, i asked one, what is wrong with vladimir putin s military strategy in ukraine? look around, i don t see anyone scared. we spoke to a family of four who just arrived with thousands of others by train, they ve escaped the city what the nuclear power plant a few nights ago, mostly women and children coming has military aged males
want payback. the catholic church here, john paul ii visited in addition to preparing from last night, this could be potential airstrikes, boarding up windows, the priest said the situation is very hard on us but we must trust in god. as we heard, this is refugee capitol, city opening up its arms to hundreds of thousands of refugees, not just all passing through 40 miles away, the city s housing hundreds of thousands of people opening up while it donating food to feed the people visiting a refugee center, people, we heard sirens a few moments ago and this will stretch on for years. jon: lucas thomason, let s hope that assessment is not correct. thank you.
urging turkey s president to end all of this. more than 60,000 people have left their homes according to the international rescue committee, and the u.n. security council met today behind closed doors. cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward joins me live there in northern syria, and clarissa, tell me what you have seen what you have heard, from these innocent civilians trying to flee? reporter: yeah. well, brooke, they re saying now that number could quickly go from 60,000 to hundreds of thousands, and it s not surprising to see how that would be possible, because we earlier on today spent time in a town right up on the turkish border. basically every shop was shuttered. the streets were deserted, except for about 80 or so people who gathered to try to protest the turkish military operation that s been under way for over 24 hours now. very quickly, kurdish forces came out said you guys need to disburse. there was artillery hitting