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Forces. i will tell you their ammunition stocks, their weapons are limited. they need more support from the west. more support from our allies and the united states to continue this. and they have to continue this offensive. they have to push these russian troops back away from kyiv. this is the moment. theres a window of opportunity for this. they are taking advantage of it. weve got to get more support to them very rapidly. >> meantime, the situation just continues to grow more and more dire f...

We have every country, romania, germany, poland, et cetera. so many people are using this. we have over 10,000 available listings. those are the ones that are available. ones that have been marked as filled, we have got thousands and thousands. its incredible. >> and how did you initially get people interested in hosting on your site? >> um, we started doing a lot of media around the u.s. but i have been spending a lot of time spreading the word in like facebook groups and whatsapp and telegram ...

Those first couple of weeks, we are talking about 4 million people in a matter of 4 weeks. we havent seen anything quite like it since world war ii, at least here in europe. so people were doing the best that they could. we know that the cities especially the border towns that are very small, not prepared, they dont have the infrastructure for something like this are leaning heavily on aid groups, nonprofit groups that are on the ground 24/7 and we have heard from the un as well that bigger citi...

The aftermath. buildings and cars were destroyed. dead bodies were lying in the streets. ukraines security emergency services has also released to this video, showing rescuers taking out at least some of the dead. they were doing this while under fire from russian artillery. some of the remaining residents were also brought to safety including many children the mayor tells me. >> translator: this is 100% ukrainian. we are taking out the wounded and bodies. today and yesterday we evacuated approx...

Ukraine. we want to go back. we want to unite with our husbands, with our fathers, we want to be in our community. so, yes, temporarily maybe they can be joining their family in ukraine but they do want to go back. trace: i wonder because your reach is clearly limited and i know that there are other aid groups out there working, but what message would you like to pass along to other aid groups that may not know whats happening in italy? >> the message that i would like to give to everyone is if ...

A month into the war, many still end up in shelters near the border a transportation network has developed, getting many others to homes and destinations arranged by aid groups and volunteers this bus crossed the border today with 60 people with disabilities >> we have a few people that are in ukraine with disabilities and theyre able to get them out of the city >> reporter: among them, irinas brother, unable to care for himself. staying in kyiv not an option do you hope to bring your brother ho...

Evacuated approximately 500 people. today, i myself evacuated about 50 children and 100 adults. >> reporter: the evacuees are brought to this base outside of irpin. its not only people, aid groups are now also evacuating the animals left behind when their owners had to flee, including these puppies. >> we have volunteers who are going under the fire and picking animals on the street. >> under fire, you are going into irpin and picking animals up? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: the ukrainian army says...

Me. ambassador john herbst is the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine and senior director of the atlantic councils eurasia center. and hagar chemali is the former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the u.n. kelly cobiella, i want to start with you. you are in southeastern poland, not far from where the president will make his first stop when he arrives in the country. we just learned the president is going to meet with refugees tomorrow. we also learned that hes going to make a major address. ke...

Hundreds of miles away. all of the indications that the u.s. has is those inventories of precision munitions running low for the russians. but to even compound the problem, theyre suffering failure rates. 20% up to 60% were told by the united states assessment of russian air launch munitions precision munitions are not successfully launching. their suffering very high failure rates and that now of course even hindering the air campaign that theyve been relying on. wolf. >> very significant devel...

Of those little children actually told the president, please, please pray for my father who is still in ukraine fighting the war. yesterday biden and president due i da got a briefing from -- duda got a briefing from aid workers on the ground about what is happening, their needs. also small polish border towns are leaning a lot on these aid groups to give food, shelter and medical attention, and the u.n. refugee agency is reporting mayors of larger polish cities like raqqa caw and warsaw -- krak...