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Ukraine, for now. these children are living at a specialized school, in lviv, in western ukraine. there are 80 of them, orphans, who were a vacuum weighted from the east when, their towns were bomb by the russians. children, like 8 year old dimitri. >> what do you want the world to know about ukraine? >> dimitri tells me, he wants the war to stop, so he can go home. he is hoping to be a doctor. >> anything you want to say to anybody? any of your friends? >> dimitriuss answer is soul crushing. >>...

As the fighting intensifies in lviv, buses and trains continue to arrive from across the country, as people leave their homes and belongings, and prepare to seek sanctuary elsewhere. our special correspondent fergal keane has been travelling with some of those whove fled, and has this report. the young men have been working all night. they try to bring some cheer to the old woman. haw was our service, theyjoked, can i get you tea or coffee? it spares no one, this war. not the old the young, or t...

Of one orphanage in lviv. tom? >> reporter: this morning, the mass exodus in ukraine reaching historic levels. now the fastest-growing refugee crisis since world war ii. >> i just left my home to nowhere. i have no plan. i just wanted to save my child. >> protecting children is fueling the migration, from the fighting in the east to safe havens in the west. >> these children you see here may be in the worst possible position, because theyre orphans. they do not have family. they are in limbo rig...

Are getting closer to the city, people are streaming out of it, parents are tethered to their children, they are taking their pets, their grandparents, and everybody is heading west. this is the push right up at the door. there has been some people dropping bags, weve seen people holding their babies up in the air as they are trying to cram as many people possible on to this train. a lot of families we spoke to said they decided this morning to pack up their house, come here to the station, and ...

Ukraine. how do we expand this? we have a gofundme and we want to care and feed for these kids not missing in the gap during war. i imagine in the five months weve been studying this have you heard another story about the orphans until today? they are the silent voices. >> dana: no, you make a great point. >> well make sure their voices are heard. >> dana: anything you are doing to fortify the orphanages or keep you safe from the fire fight? >> yeah. as far as our personal safety goes, they are ...

Same fate. >> reporter: they were running for their lives. frantically trying to keep their families together amid the mayhem and gunfire, desperately handing over their toddlers to soldiers and strangers. scrambling to get away from the firing and shelling, even as they fled. >> thats a terrible situation for those children and families, and then there are those in even tougher straits, nbcs tom llamas reporting on an orphanage where children are in limbo as this war continues. >> reporter: fri...

♪ >> bret: the war in ukraine has caused many orphans to remain in the country instead of being beginning, rather, their new lives with adoptive families here in the u.s. chief correspondent jonathan hunt has the story tonight from lviv. >> hello, mom and dad. >> 13-year-old julia, one of many orphans waiting for this war to end hopes her aadoptive parents in chicago are watching this. >> i want to go to chicago. >> if it werent for war, she might already be in the u.s. her adoption was due to...

Women injured, being carried out of that hospital. according to the ukrainian president, that was purely a civilian target and in the words of president zelenskyy, another act of russian. >> shannon: leaders there saying they are cataloguing everything they can and getting it to the hagan fight for for war crime prosecution. we heard zelenskyy informing the russian soldiers that they are going to face that if they survive this. i wanted to ask if theres an update on the amazing story you brought...

Finalized just before the first bombs dropped. now she waits in libya and plays with friends all of them orphans, all of them forced to leave that previous orphanage on the outskirts of kyiv after spending five days and nights huddling in a basement as the russians attacked the capital city kyiv . as ukraine keyssar are blessed catholic ukraine, the director of the kiv orphanage who shepherded the children on that dangerous journey has a message for the rest of the world. theres a lot of familie...

This. what can you tell us? >> thankfully that family is now safe, out of ukraine. there are many more children including orphans that are stuck in the war zone. that american family able to breathe a little bit easier now after a scary journey. >> say here i am. >> this morning, 5 dld charlotte, mom and dad all safe in slovakia after a remarkable escape from ukraine. >> were safe now. >> amy and mike traveled from florida to kyiv for their daughters birth by surrogate days before russias attack...