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Line so theyre not going to turn on him with the sanctions, and thats taken years. division itself goes back to the earliest day of his presidency, to looking at the collapse of the soviet union, the largest catastrophe of the 20th century, precisely because russia loses that center of historical power. and what he is trying to do here is fix that. >> fascinating. matthew schmidt, always good to speak with you and get your analysis. appreciate it, thanks, professor. >> my pleasure. stay with c...

To these crossing points. the poles, having so long resisted their entry, have let them in all the same — theres really no way to discriminate. just another way that putins war has changed everything in europes east. if this grinding struggle endures, with all of the movement of peoples which go with it, it will surely change much for the continents west, as well. that was lewis goodall reporting from poland. one of the consequences of the invasion in ukraine could be increased food prices aro...

The isolation prison. and now donetsk is the symbol of huge rights violation. and in november the two new crossing points that we opened have not been put into operation. and we see this and there is an obstruction under false pretext that ukraine is doing its best to push this discussion for political questions as well. and the tcg and minsk process, we have submitted the proposals and drafts of law, but everything is blocked and no one is talking about them. ukraine demands urgentry to unblock...

Wife 0ksana back to manchester. she had flown out to ukraine to visit her parents and son just before conflict broke out. her flight back was cancelled. she was forced to drive to the polish border. shes got through the border, through the night, im checking with her, "where are you? "are you through yet? "which... "where are you aiming for? "get a flight. "where from? "which airport?" 0ur cameras were there when the couple were finally reunited. thousands of ukrainians live in the uk. their hom...

And that has its own big issues associated with it because it would directly pit the u.s. and nato air forces against the russian air force. we dont want to do that right now but, yes, youre right. any type of land movement would have to come from poland, slovakia possibly and hungary, romania. thats about it. those are about the only crossing points that you have that would be legitimate. unless you didnt have the russians here in the south. but because you do, that becomes a problem. >> even i...

Right now which is the biggest city in this region. we are actually stood in a car park. if you look behind me, that is one of the buses ferrying people from the border point down here. just in front of me here it is a massive shopping centre where they are kept overnight. they are processed. the had this morning, they were being fed and given close and they are encouraged to move over to the train station in the centre of the town. i say encourage because they are not forced to but it is a very...

There are multiple supports from concerned humanitarian bodies, and charities and across all the countries bordering ukraine which is all about traffickers, child exploiters, sex traffickers, you name it, targeting vulnerable children the first area theyve gone to is ukraines orphanages where there is concern that 100,000 ukrainian children from these orphanages, over 90% of whom who are not orphans, in fact, so theyre there for reasons of poverty and other family issues are untraceable on track...

Looked after, notjust about own and make sure they are properly looked after, not just about they are here, but obviously onto whatever they go to. briefly, nick, how are romanians responding to this crisis? it how are romanians responding to this crisis? . . . how are romanians responding to this crisis? , ., , ., ., ,, crisis? it is a struggle to make ends meet _ crisis? it is a struggle to make ends meet already _ crisis? it is a struggle to make ends meet already for - crisis? it is a strugg...

More than 3.6 million people have fled ukraine since russias invasion. about 2 million to poland alone. cnns melissa bell is at the polish/ukrainian border. melissa, help us to understand what you are seeing there, the sk scope of this humanitarian crisis. >> reporter: well, i think the best thing, abby, is to have a look at whats been put in place here. this is one of the main crossing points into poland. the first few days there were some 80,000 crossing the border every single day. now that n...

1,000 of these trucks go across the border every month carrying vital supplies, and that now includes covid vaccines. this is an absolute lifeline for people in idlib. for many, its their only lifeline. that lifeline was in danger. russia, syrias key ally, signalled it wanted to close the crossing, preferring aid to come from inside syria instead. but after a last—minute compromise, all members of the security council voted to keep it open for another year. this has proven to be the safest, th...