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Flesh. his parents and one sister died on the spot. his other sister was taken to a different hospital. an ambulance brought the boy unconscious, losing blood where doctors performed emergency surgery and put him on a ventilator. it was a couple of days before the staff located his grandmother and learned the boys name dog. shrapnel have passed through the site of his neck. he was on life support, with little sign of brain activity. after the boy died, the doctor who treated him said i feel simp...

>> theyre in safety and were so thankful for that, but it is traumatic because theyre having to leave their home once again into an unknown situation. >> reporter: again, so many stories like leahs there, alex. ill tell you, though, that 15-year-old is incredibly resilient, and after that conversation, she played us a song on the piano called "pray for ukraine" that brought pretty much all of us to tears. wendy is now going through all of the hoops to try to get visas for these children, not eas...

Thousands of women left to lead the way to safety, holding their childrens hands and the little they can carry with them. outside a train station in lviv, erena who evacuated from the donesk region tells me she and her daughter will shelter here. >> my job is to keep her daughter safe and her husbands job is to keep the country safe >> behind the tears resilience and fortitude. leah came here wit her twins to escape the fighting, protecting them, telling them the sounds of war were actually just...

Orphanage where the children came from. as soon as she heard they might be in harms way, she flew from springfield, missouri, where she lives, and has been here in poland for a few weeks now. shes trying to get these kids into the u.s. to give them some sort of normalcy and a good temporary home until they can safely go back to ukraine. wendy introduced us today to a young woman named leah. shes 15 years old, and she has family in mariupol. her mother is there right now. take a listen to what le...

She escaped from the a donetsk region with her 10-month-old baby. shes also six months pregnant and told us about that harrowing journey as she was hearing russian artillery on the bus, trying to get out of the country, leaving her home behind, leaving her husband behind, and i want to play you a moment from our conversation, and i want you to just sit with her for a minute and listen and feel the pain that shes experiencing right now. you have one little girl. youre going to have a second one. ...

>> but the u.s. consulates backlog to end the ukraine has expressed concern about moving children out of europe. for leah, america would be a dream come true. but her heart is with ukraine. lia says she feels pain whenever she plays her piano favorites aung. its called, pray for ukraine. she hopes the world will. and stephanie, the director of that college says he is worried that there will be more orphans as a result of this war. he said the already saw this happening in 2014 after that conflic...

One out of every two ukrainian children have been displaced since the start of the russian invasion. many of them now becoming orphans because of the war. >> reporter: song time is a highlight of the day for these kids. theyre orphans to fled to poland with their caretakers. among them, 15-year-old leah. were withholding her last night. in 2014 she escaped violence in the east. now eight years later retreating west again. many ukrainian orphans like leah are deemed social orphans. they have pare...

Kids go through all of this? >> our kids are very resilient. but it is traumatic. >> shes working to bring them to the u.s.. >> i dont want them to be left in the shuffle. >> but the u.s. consulates backlog to end the ukraine has expressed concern about moving children out of europe. for leah, america would be a dream come true. but her heart is with ukraine. lia says she feels pain whenever she plays her piano favorites aung. its called, pray for ukraine. she hopes the world will. and stephanie...

According to unicef. unicef also tells me that about 7500 children have actually been born into this war. stephanie, among the kids who crossed the border are children who came here to poland without parents, without family members. ukraine has a large number of orphans and they are among the most vulnerable caught in this conflict. >> some time is a highlight of the day for these kids. they are or friends who fled to poland with their caretakers. among them, 15 year old leah, we are withholding...

Reality and just keep on going >> reporter: the u.s. state department says its aware of the reported abduction but cant comment because of privacy concerns. lester >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. unicef says more than half of all ukrainian children have been displaced by the war, with 1.8 million crossing into neighboring countries. our dasha burns now on some of the most vulnerable the orphans. ♪ >> reporter: song time is a highlight of the day for these kids theyre orphans who fled to poland...