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Ukrainian people can do right now to get ready. what are they? >> well, you know, what youre going peenged is the rubble from the shelling -- from the russian shelling will become defensive barriers. and will become a death trap for russian armor. russian tanks are most vulnerable from the top, brian, and from the rear. firing those antitank weapons down from those high-rise buildings on top the thin russian armor and then also using subway system sewer and tunnels to pop up in the rear, the inf...

Burnt down to a crisp. your houses have been shelled for the past few days. you fear for yourself. you fear for your families, so you try to leave. but even the escape routes are being blocked today. in a place like kyiv, where where we are now, where the streets remain eerily quiet, at least in the centre of the city, more and more defensive barriers are being put up across the city. we drove through yesterday to see the sandbag positions, the spiked barriers all in preparation for a possible a...

Try to get to europe, we all remember the heartbreaking image of the young boy who washed up on the shores of years ago which gives a sense of the dangers that syrians had to get to even get to -- go through to get to europe. so for syrians, the barriers are extraordinary. and now is striking to see europeans welcoming ukrainian refugees with open arms, as they should, and you wonder why they didnt do the same for syrians. >> theres also the question of how long this welcome will last. the mass ...

The last few days, you fear for yourself, your families, you try to leave, but even the escape routes are being blocked today. in a place like irpin where we are now the streets remain eerily quiet at least in the centre of the city. more and more defensive barriers had been put up more defensive barriers had been put up across the city. we drove through yesterday to see this sandbagged position, spiked by the is all in preparation for a possible advance of the long armoured convoy stretching 40...

In this country, here in the united states, starting to take steps to prepare if the arrival of more ukrainian refugees to our country. i want to read some reporting in reuters that i actually found pretty stunning. the united states admitted only 514 ukrainian refugees in january and february during russias build up to the war. thats according to u.s. state department data. only seven ukrainian refugees were resettled in the united states from march 1st through march 16th. thats according to in...

House or clothes." he told me "everything had been lost." they have rebuilt thanks to help from good samaritans. fema says it is taking steps to identify and remove barriers to its programs, but for people in fultondale -- >> there is no resiliency or coming back until you can get this stuff rebuilt. >> reporter: theres no healing >> theres not. >> reporter: for now, much of the town sits frozen in time and in tragedy. blayne alexander, nbc news, fultondale, alabama. up next tonight, sibling r...

In part because they felt like there was a political gain in that. what biden has done is trying to depoliticize this argument. not make it about saying republicans are soft on russia or things that other democrats actually wish he would say more of for their own political reasons, but to give that space for unity at home to exist. biden thinks its really important that part of what putin is trying to do is not only divide the world, but people in america, too. >> thats been the putin playbook f...

Husband wiping away a tear and her daughter seated nearby, jackson also thanked her parents, both former schoolteachers, there with her today >> they gave me an african name, ketanji onyika, which they were told means lovely one. unlike the many barriers that they had had to face growing up, my path was clearer so that if i worked hard and i believed in myself in america, i could do anything or be anything i wanted to be >> reporter: the 51-year-old who was confirmed less than a year ago as a fe...

Communicating, are there language barriers in terms of difficulties, and how are you overcoming that? irate difficulties, and how are you overcoming that?— overcoming that? we use a number of— overcoming that? we use a number of modalities i overcoming that? we use a number of modalities for i number of modalities for communication, my polish isnt that great, not for want of trying, polish is an extremely difficult language. the mother speaks polish and ukrainian so polish is what i have, so...

Fled kyiv with her family about a week ago, leaving her cat behind. >> because i dont want to leave my home. >> when you look around you, how do you feel? >> i feel very happy, very strong, and a bit safer. and calm. >> reporter: in the war effort, nothing is spared. every single scrap is put to good use. russia might have the more powerful military, but ukrainians say its their resourcefulness that will win them the war. in peacetime, andres workshop makes household furniture. >> yes, we make l...