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Move in way you might not be able to track their movement. down south, you see a lot of russian convoys there. unclear whether or not they have gone over the border yet. the way that all of this could happen is, you might have two areas where the russians might fr try to go across the border. we saw a lot of military build up. we drove up to north. theres a lot of places along the border where theres no military at all. now that were getting to this region you really do feel not only a lot more ...

Is in the northeast of the country, down to nipro in the east central part of the country and through oman and then here. we spent about 16 hours in the car waiting in line at various check points behind hundreds of thousands of people who were also making the same journey trying to get out of the country, racing to the border ahead of that advancing russian line. we saw time and time again these check points, which most of them the vast majority of them were friendly but tense. at one point aft...

Zone. we have check points everywhere in the city. stopping every people in the streets. telling them, show me your citizenship from ottawa or you prove that you work here or you will be arrested. right now, my hotel is in the red zone, so with my press card, they said i made up my card so i am not allowed to work freely there. all of the shops is closed. they moved the convoy to restart the economy and the stops but right now its worse than when the convoy was there. >> laura: wow. what is this...

Brings only misery and destruction, disaster, destroying, i dont know how to call it. nobody wants to be part of the russian world as they see it. so everybody is whether its a sheppard with a farm with ships or chicken, it doesnt matter. everybody is grouping up and making road blocks. i was traveling to ukraine across the border in slovakia coming back into ukraine and i traveled through ukraine and, you know, the level of moral inside ukraine is extremely high. people are gathering together, ...

Everyday ukrainian civilians who have taken up arms to fight the russians. right now a number of russian troops have in fact been taken prisoner. all of this coming as the united states and its allies have agreed to limit russian access to s.w.i.f.t. banking system, essentially barring some russian banks from international transactions. a lot to get to this evening. want to begin, though, with the tens of thousands of ukrainians forced out of their homes to escape russian violence. neighboring c...

Recommendations, people we should be hearing from. we do read and check what the folks recommend. "the reidout" with joy reid starts right now. hi, joy. >> hi, ari. isnt it amazing that the january 6th news, any other time would be both of our blocks and how its just been overwhelmed by world events. just mind blowing. any way, have a great evening. cheers. good evening. we begin tonight with the humanitarian catastrophe in ukraine. where the numbers of civilian deaths and refugees are rising, w...

But we are still in the red zone. we have check points everywhere in the city. stopping every people in the streets. telling them show me your citizenship from ottawa or you prove that you work here or you will be arrested. right now with my press card. they said i made up my card so i am not allowed to work freely there. all of the shops is closed. they moved the convoy to restart the economy and the stops but right now its worse than when the convoy was there sknlaur wow! -->> laura: wow! what...

Beyond the military. and you see people often at one time clogging the roads and clogging whatever areas of escape that you can do. but right now the city is being cut off. there are check points now. the major check points inside the city, theyre being barricaded. i saw them myself when i was coming into the city from a northeast town coming back into kyiv. so just this confluence of people leaving at one time, a city the size of chicago managing just millions of people in this city and theyre ...

Doesnt seem that dire, people are going about their day-to-day basis. when we were crossing the country, we made a journey from the east to the west in lviv in the last couple of days. we joined that mass exodus and it was intense. it was hundreds of thousands of people sitting in their cars for hours and hours waiting at check point after check point, trying to get through. it was just an immense effort. you know, for the border guards and for the people who are manning the check points, they w...

Away from the border gives you a sense of how desperate you are. so we turned around, behind us, the end of the line. people here not yet aware they are 30 miles and vseveral days from possibly crossing the border. this is mark, a career war zone photo journalists. hes filming almost all of what youre seeing here, lines of cars, more lines of cars, lines of cars. a soul crushing reality. rare moments of what is normal life along the way but mostly this. sit sitt sitting, parked engine off. local...