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Just to get water. of course, in the villages, the shells. i feel heartbroken when i cant send money because they dont have atms to have a cash and they cant pay with a card and dont have what to buy. the worst is that they do not know when or where to expect the shelling. the regional administrator said the russians were moving and there was shelling and my aunt wrote that shes heard shelling in the near village, where my grannys house is and another house of my granny is damaged. youre standin...

Grandmother, then the war broke out. she woke up surrounded by russian forces. take a listen to what she had to say. >> the reality changed. it changed so fast that you cannot still accept it. we were thinking a lot of times about going out from the city, but it is too dangerous and it is getting more dangerous every day, but i cant force my mom to leave the house, i cannot force my granny. she wants to stay here. i have only one choice if i will take the risk of leaving the city to leave them h...

Last time i heard from them, they tried to reach a nearby drugstore just to have some... equipment for injections for my granny because she needs insulin all the time. like half a year ago, i was taking care of her because she was after a very hard injury and we saved her life and now i dont know what will be... when my father was returning, a shell felljust two houses from him and it was i dont know, it was luck that it didnt detonate. that was the last news that i heard. that he was safe. sinc...

Irina. she is trapped 18 miles from the russian border. she said just before the war, she went to the city -- she lives in kyiv. she went there to visit her mother and her grandmother. the wear broke out. she woke up one morning. the city surrounded by russian forces. she says she doesntknow what to do and she doesnt know whats going to happen next. take a listen. >> the reality changed. it changed so fast that you cannot still accept it. we were thinking a lot of times about going out from the ...

Areas are damaged. the constant volley of attack, seen half the town empty. the other half, cannot understand why this is happening. there are tacked on houses, and schools, and shops. they are hurting us too much. for what? please, someone explain. >> she shows us the crater that was left in her backyard. parts of the rockets, still visible. god loves me, she says, i cannot believe i am alive. inside her house, she says almost every room is affected with the ceiling down, and windows shattered....

Woke up one morning and the city was surrounded by russian forces, she doesnt know what to do and she doesnt know how to get out of the city. take a listen. >> the reality changed. it changed so fast that you cannot accept it. we were thinking a lot of times about going out from the city but its too dangerous and its getting more dangerous every day but i cannot force my mom to leave the house. i cannot force my granny, she wants to stay here. but have i no choice to leave them here but how can ...

Quite problematic to take my grandmother, her leg was amputated last year so it is problematic to take her in the car and they do not want to leave without my granny. they do not want to leave her there. that is why they are waiting for the official corridor, for evacuation which is guaranteed by both sides, and as soon as it is open, they will leave the city. and as soon as it is open, they will leave the city-— leave the city. semi people are in the same position, _ leave the city. semi peop...

Only here, but in other cities and towns that suffered even more from the russian invasion. >> one of the things as ive been meeting refugees over the last several weeks that the sadness of leaving their home is one thing, but the sadness of leaving behind family members seems to be another thing altogether, the women who have come whose husbands cannot leave the country. the older people who have come who have left their more elderly parents back home because they were not able to leave. you ta...

My granny is a strong woman. she was born in the year when the world war ii and so she says that the older you are, the easier it is to bear whats happening now in ukraine. >> veronica, thank you for being with us. lets keep in touch and please say hello to your grandmother for us. coming up, were following breaking news out of texas, where there are multiple fatalities after a horrific van crash involving a college golf team. what happened, next. youre watching "jose diaz-balart reports." ure...

And for those who have lived through this before, the war has awful echoes. its terrible, terrible, granny says. her daughter interrupts. children are dying, women are dying, she says. this isnt war, this is destruction. this is genocide. they are just killing us, to get rid of us. they want to remove us from the surface of the land. so, they see their defensive these northern criticals. theyre seeing constant weather here. they are nazis, he says. and, there is another attack. he waits to hear ...