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Across the country through checkpoints or on trains. as we found out yesterday, even once people reach the border areas to flee the country, their journey is far from over. for more than a million ukrainians, the road to safety in poland is filled with checkpoints, bumper to bumper traffic and seemingly endless anticipation. valentina and her family had been waiting to cross the border for more than 24 hours and theyre still nowhere near the frond of the line. >> i dont know whats waiting for me...

Ukraine. >> reporter: for more than a million ukrainians, the road to safety in poland is filled with checkpoints, bumper-to-bumper traffic, and seemingly endless anticipation. valentina and her family have been waiting to cross the border for more than 24 hours. theyre still nowhere near the front of the line. >> translator: i dont know whats waiting for me and my family. were going into the unknown, and it scarce us. >> reporter: everyone in their cars is willing to wait. closer to the border,...

Bridge collapsed, so the road to the polish border is effectively blocked right now. >> sandra: looking through some of the notes you told our producers about your situation, max, and i want to highlight the fact that you are the former first deputy minister of economy for ukraine, so you are intimately, you have intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the government there, obviously how it works, the economic connection to russia, and some of of the surrounding countries. i look at how you ...

Hes a convicted felon, five-time convicted felon. hes going to prison and coming out a convicted con. thats the end of it. >> want to say -- >> well let will get a word in here. was it a long enough sentence? the judge -- you saw the range the judge -- >> definitely not. i think he should have gotten the max. if they were three year, run concurrently dwleeshgss is the max, give him the max. what he did for this crime, perpetuating a hate crime is the max. i couldnt have thought of someone commit...

Night and she cries. she does not sleep. we didnt sleep three nights. and now we hope maybe, maybe we go to another country and maybe we stay there. we hope for that. hannah is with herfamily but also her parents. they try to stay after the russian invasion, but she fears her home in kharkiv may have been destroyed. joining her sister in london is their only hope. sister lives in london. we dont have any family. so we want to try to go to london, because my sister — and this is the daughter of...

Traffic, and seemingly endless anticipation. valentina and her family have been waiting to cross the border for more than 24 hours. theyre still nowhere near the front of the line. >> translator: i dont know whats waiting for me and my family. were going into the unknown, and it scares us. >> reporter: everyone in their cars is willing to wait. closer to the border, even hobble. max is taping and zip tying leftover insulation from his heating business to his daughters feet to make sure shes warm...

Against putin. in fact, a new poll, 39% russians age 18 to 24 who are more connected globally with social media are against the war. so this is going to make itself manifest in myriad ways. one interesting point is putin invested hugely for years in his personality cult, that hes invincible, omnipotent. what theyve done is have bad effects at home. >> we have a minute left. max, ruth, i love it when you said you cant negotiate with an autocrat so, therefore, max, are the efforts at negotiations ...

Been waiting to cross the border for more than 24 hours and theyre nowhere near the front of the line. >> i dont know whats waiting for me and my family. were going into the unknown and it scarce us. >> everyone in their cars is willing to wait. closer to the corder, even hobbled. busses drop people off by the dozens to cross on foot, joining lines that stretch for blocks and for hours. max is taping and zip tying left over insulation from his heating business to his daughters feet to make sure ...

>> you know, and im glad you brought up that ramping up the sanctions on putin, max. because, ruth, what im wondering is because the seeming information blackout that putin has imposed for russia so that russian citizens cant see the truth of whats happening, when will those ramped up sanctions start to hit the russian people? do we know whether theyve hit the russian people already? and what likely would be the response to that, in a country where we have already seen people protesting -- those...

Florida. we begin with scott mclean live this hour in lviv, ukraine. lviv, scott, had been seen as a safe haven for ukrainians. doesnt appear thats the case anymore. >> yeah, thats right. there had previously been a military strike about 11 miles or so from the polish border, about 25 miles from the city of lviv. this is the first time weve had any kind of bomb hitting within city limits. let me just tell you where we are right now, max. just beyond this wall here is the airport runway, actually...