Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur and environment reporter Sue Surkes join host Amanda Borschel-Dan. Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman reports in from Przemsyl, near the Poland-Ukraine border.

Berman updates on what he's seeing on the ground and where he's going from here. He speaks with Gzhegozh Sobol, a municipal employee running an absorption center in Krakow’s central train station.

Surkes has spent the week reporting on Ukraine’s Jews, focussing on heart-wrenching cases of fleeing orphans and a small community under fire. She updates on what she's heard from Ukraine's Jews, including US-born Chabad Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein who the leader of a very small community northeast of Kiev. What kind of picture is he painting?

Rettig Gur explains which countries are supportive of the Russian incursion their motivations. He also illustrates the rise of a newly united West.

Discussed articles include:

Live blog, March 1, 2022

Israel’s envoy to Ukraine describes a tense humanitarian crisis at border

In busy Krakow station, harried volunteers welcome Ukrainians refugees

Fleeing city near Belarus border, busloads of Ukraine Jewish orphans look to Israel

Ukraine rabbi sheltering 35 community members in synagogue basement pleads for help

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IMAGE: A group of Ukrainian people in Bali and supporters hold posters to protest against the invasion of Russia in front of the Ukraine consulate office in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on March 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

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