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Came across the border yesterday, trace back to the one border checkpoint we came through was a couple of miles and well north of 20 miles of the previous few days. what seems to be happening, obviously no ukrainian men age 60 out. they are supposed to stay and fight so just women and children. it feels like the polish authorities are simply waving them through to get them through as quickly as possible. another quick point, trace, the number of checkpoints clearly increasing. they are manned an...

Colonel cedric leighton. well likely see a lot more of this. ukrainian families desperately making their way to the polish border. youve been seeing the images of gridlock as drivers scramble to outrun the russians. and its an emotional scene for those who make it out. cnns arawa damon is on the other side of the border in poland tonight. arawa? >> reporter: hi, pam. this bus has just arrived. oh, and we can see some sort of a reunion happening here. this bus just arrived from the ukrainian bord...

Just bumper to bumper. we passed that as we were coming in today. theres a lot of fear and concern about what may lie ahead. all eyes are on kyiv. >> earlier in the day on the polish border with you ukraine, whats the level of desperation among ukrainians who are trying to flee their country. >> reporter: its a nightmare. we focus on the battlefield and forces that are fighting. we have seen so many families that have been torn apart. women and children going to the border to try to get out as b...

That means forces would have to fly to enforce that zone. that would put them in direct conflict with nuclear armed russia. that is simply why that no-fly zone is not happening at this point. because if it was there, obviously and patrolling over ukraine, that convoy could be gone in a matter of seconds, trace. >> trace: but of course that would be a declaration of war. jonathan, your way toward lviv, which is the western part of ukraine, people must have been trying to make their way out. how i...

>> i think there was a bully from top to bottom, from people on the street to journalists who have covered the story for years, the analysts that a full-scale attack was so illogio reckless that it simply couldnt happen. it is happening, even the worst expectations. not just eastern ukraine, not just the capital, cities in the west under attack as well. full-scale major invasion, regime change likely goal. >> trace: steve harrigan, back to you as a news brakes. weve seen in kyiv people coming we...

Cnns erin burnett and her crew joined a group on their long, grueling journey. listen to what erin told cnns pamela brown. >> reporter: we got up this morning, we had been down maybe an hour. awakened by air sirens down in the bomb shelter. thats how it is now. and then we began our journey to the polish border. and first we passed the train station and it is hordes of people, hofrds of people. it is indescribable. people rushing to get on buses. as you said, it is primarily women and children. ...

Now. the last thing vladimir putin wants, im sure hed be the first to tell you, to get bogged down in endless war. >> the ukrainians, its not even the ukrainian military that we signed 2015. its more disciplined, it more unified, better trained, stronger ukrainian identity. its going to be a tough military. they are brave. they are brave, outgunned and outmanned delay of courage and heart. its our responsibility to keep giving them the weapons to do that. i want to put a caution on it. when we d...

Think the context is important and the people are filing into the building across the street and where cal is, i dont know if we have a view on this map but it is in the western part of the country close to the border with poland, right? you can see, obviously, on this map, where poland is, you know where poland is, and how far that is, as cal is pointing out from, kyiv, right? we know that russian troops based on what we heard from defense officials overnight in the u.s. are closing in on kyiv....

Talks? well, our delegation will be there for two reasons, first to listen to what the aggressor has to say to us. and our eyes, in our faces, those people who were calling us brothers. second of all, to tell them in the clearest words, that ukraine is not going to seed any inch of its territory, not any inch of its freedom. —— ukraine is not going to cede. thank you. now to the polish border. kasia madera is there for us. the small border town that has seen

Strategy and he sounded defiant again as he addressed the nation. today, you, ukrainians, are a symbol of resilience. a symbol of the fact that people in any country can become the best people on earth. at any moment. glory to ukraine. millions of ukrainians now face the hardest of choices and these families have been queueing for miles next to the polish border. 0n the other side, a warm welcome and safety, but many have left behind loved ones and dont know what will be left of their homeland i...