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Would be held up at check points for an hour and they would check your documents, they would photograph your documents, send them to places, question you. thats something that really went on the entire time. and, you know, luckily we were able to talk our way out of a couple situations on that side of the border, but it is certainly something that did make it more difficult to report. and then, you know, with this new law that the russians put in place, that obviously makes it even more difficul...

Went through a number of russian check points and came around a curve and came across, they say, some russian soldiers who opened fire on the car. and a bullet tore through this 11-year-old girls face and neck to the point that her tongue is damaged. and she came very, very close to having her carotid artery severed. she is able to kind of walk now, and i woke to her. shes an incredible gymnast. she loves her cats named musha and busha, who have gotten to latvia with her older sister to be with ...

Weve seen is it seems as though the mood here has eased a little bit among the citizens here. weve been out and about the entire weekend. and even at some of the checkpoints. you could see more traffic there. more people going sarn there. but of course you do constantly get reminded this is a city that is very much on war footing. you have a lot of check points everywhere. you have a lot of fortifications everywhere and then days like today where you do have fighting that is still going on. but ...

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Told me that russians will try to use chemical weapons on kyiv in the next 12 years. i think it is difficult to make because ukrainian have a lot of air defense system. at the same time we understand that russians are unstoppable. they definitely feel that ukraine fights very well so theyll try to go to another level and try something different. so kyiv is almost down to a lot of check points and ukrainians have been fighting but it is never enough to think what putin will think of the next step...

The red cross couldnt get in yesterday. a few thousands people managed to leave in private cars, risking the journey by themselves to get through russian check points, but as you know, the russians didnt allow that much needed humanitarian aid to get into mariupol or that convoy of buses to get in to get a hot of people out of there. even though the people in that city are besieged, they dont have water, electricity, gas, they werent letting essential supplies in or some of those up to 170,000 p...

So, what theyre doing now is they are really shelling that place. we -- today, we got as close as possible to irpin. we do have to warn our viewers, some of what theyre about to see is very disturbing. >> reporter: through heavily fortified check points, we reached the edge of kyiv at the suburb, irpin. suddenly on top of the artillery barrages, we hear gunfire. [ sound of gunfire ] >> thats gunfire. >> reporter: much closer, and we have to take cover. this is what it sounds like after russia sa...

Soldiers who have found hope and love in one another. heres molly hunter. >> translator: because were doing the same job its easy to understand each other now. >> translator: when all check points are removed, then we can go out and have a good time, take off our uniforms >> reporter: these two have only ever known each other in uniform. they met during the first days of the war. we met them in odesa a 19-year-old and 24-year-old. they couldnt keep their hands off each other, that universal stag...

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