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Activists. he said russian soldiers are setting up check points and robbing apartments and vehicles. 2.2 million ukrainians have left the country and travelled do bordering nations. 1.3 million are in poland, hundreds of thousands have fled to hungary, slow vauk yeah, moldova and romania and other countries. joining us from the polish border, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella. kelly, you are at another border crossing. what does it look like there today? >> reporter: willie, this is a very s...

States. but, you know, speaking to even jor o senior officials here, they are grateful for the aid that the u.s. is giving, certainly for the anti-tank and airity air weapons that have made a big difference in pushes forces back. especially around kyiv. but of course ukrainians would like to see even more aid. >> and weve learned that russia has apparently halted its advance around the capital city, but what is the late thaes you are seeing on the ground there? >> reporter: well, there is still ...

Trying to help folks get out. talk about the complexiies of at this stage trying to get out of some of these cities where cal just said the russians are attacking people as theyre trying to flee. >> yeah, thank you for having me on the show. i helped two families so far in addition to a third one indirectly. if youre in the northwest for example, a suburb of kyiv and so the family that we took out, they were in the shelter for three days. they were after constant bombings and attacks, the russia...

If theyre lucky, their family members with them. so there are estimates of at least 200,000 people on some 52 buses that finally made it through many check points to ukrainian controlled territory. >> ivan watson, thank you very much, joining us now ma manuel fonte, unicef director of office emergency programs, joining us, in vinnytsia, ukraine, thank you for joining us. what we just heard from ivan, its very difficult to get into mariupol and certainly to get people out. what worries you most a...

Their ground down. our fredredric pleitgen shows us how the capital is preparing for what comes next. >> reporter: the ukrainian capital kyiv is still very much on a war footing. were right in the city center. as you can see theres a tank bar barrier there was setup here with sandbags, obviously a defensive position. and this is something you really see throughout the entire city with a lot of check points, a lot of soldiers on the ground, defense forces as well. we are literally in the city cen...

So these photos are worldwide. so its impossible to hide anything because we see it. we cannot be defeated easily. we are not fools. >> you are not fools. you are living truth, maria. our mere presence, your being here with us telling the story tells us everything. i understand even as you left and made it through the russian checkpoints you felt like the russians were firing on you as you were leaving? >> yeah. there is a story of us leaving the check points. we have passed maybe six russian

Trains pushing further into europe tend to take off this time of night here in poland. so, were still seeing that. if youre at the border check points and the incoming trains, the flow of refugees has slowed down a little bit, but it is still steady. and anderson, one about a week ago people would tell us it took about two days to reach this point. but now were hearing its taking some families four or five days especially from eastern ukraine where theyre navigating dangerous conditions on the r...

Doesnt trust or maybe they implemented his decision wrong or he made a bad decision and they get the blame but that is what happens in the russian military. it happened to stalin at the beginning of world war ii. he fired a lot of people. thats the way it works. >> general, i forget the day that they call it when they authorize the draft for the people who just turned 18 but putin has authorized the draft of more than 134,000 russian citizens into the army. the defense minister claims they wont ...

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>> well, among those who fled mariupol is an 18-year-old university student and her parents. she says they barely escaped mariupol alive missing a rocket that slammed into the street in front of them. and contrary to what we just heard from the kremlin spokesperson, she says it was the russians who were trying to conseal the truth of what was happening in her city. well, this video shows the basement the family lived in sharing a space for a week with strangers before they finally decided to lea...