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Envisioned it would be like this. its the worst case nightmare scenario. and you can see, civilians doing what they can to get out of the way going underground if they can and having the resources and ability to make it to the polish border, laura? >> laura: very quickly, ive been through kyiv and other parts of the ukraine very extensively. and the historic landmarks, not thats that is the most important thing right now, but the historic churches that speak to the heart of what kyiv is, there w...

Bp divesting 20% stake in russian company. airbnb. so many refugees there are 520,000 refugees from ukraine. they are going into neighboring countries like poland and austria and romania. and airbnb is saying we are going to allow to you stay for free temporarily. >> brian: look at overall in the military. phase 26 the operations on the way beginning to choke off the cities and run helicopter train addiction flights around the polish border. thats where all the aid and armament for the most part...

But i cannot be sure. hundreds of thousands of people have been trying to escape the ukraine conflict in the past few days. the vast majority of those whove left so far are women and children. our special correspondent, fergal keane, has sent us this report from the city of lviv, in the west of ukraine, near the polish border. choir sings. there are many leaving. but across the city of lviv this morning, the voices and prayers of those for whom this place is home, a home they will not abandon. t...

You know, you make these decisions all the time — should we leave, should we stay? you know... we always — my wife and i always promised if anything got serious enough that it threatened the children, then thats the point we leave. and i felt that was the time. and luckily enough for us, my wife and children all agreed — "ok, lets go." we got in the car — we were pre—packed, thankfully, id filled the car up the night before and i had a couple of jerry cans full of fuel. id done a dry r...

Their hope is that the train would help them avoid this — the line of cars to the polish border. so, those people are moving on foot down towards the border with poland, but its another 20 kilometres from where we are at the moment. we just need to move out of the way and let more people pass us here. theyre coming. and a constant procession of people. however they arrive at the border, this slow shuffle out of the lives they knew is what awaits. back at lviv station, word that a train to pola...

Ukraine. >> we just reached the polish border. we have to go outside and check the passport. and then you can go in -- this particular train is going to warsaw. ive got to point out everyone is extremely nice. ive got this, but also i feel really bad taking anything because of the fact this is all women and children. >> thanks so much for being with us. youre an american citizen so you had an american passport. people with american citizenship are allowed to leave. what was that feeling like of ...

Wife 0ksana back to manchester. she had flown out to ukraine to visit her parents and son just before conflict broke out. her flight back was cancelled. she was forced to drive to the polish border. shes got through the border, through the night, im checking with her, "where are you? "are you through yet? "which... "where are you aiming for? "get a flight. "where from? "which airport?" 0ur cameras were there when the couple were finally reunited. thousands of ukrainians live in the uk. their hom...

Ukraine. about half of them went to poland with others going to hungary, romania, moldova and beyond. cnn crews witnessing some who had to wait 60 hours to cross the polish border. once they did, some of them received aid donations from residents of the area, which was heartwarming to see. u.n. officials say millions more refugees could follow if the conflict drags on. cnns arwa damon is in poland on the ukraine border and shows us the disturbing scene as shell-shocked ukrainians arrived. >> rep...

Waves of attack, we have seen the refugee response pretty rapidly, the numbers building up again coming in surges to watch this hungarian border. even though the polish border. even though the polish border is nearer and more people have been heading to poland, what many ukrainians, as they take a view how to get out of the country are doing, ifirst of how to get out of the country are doing, i first of all from the north and the east and now i think increasingly perhaps from the south, looking ...

Grotesque gifts to humanity. you may be sitting at home tonight wondering what can you do to help the people of ukraine, to try to fight for light over darkness. you could donate money to charity. we all should in fact. but you know what else you can do? pressure our own government here at home to make sure that we in the united states actually open our borders to refugees. we lead by example. open our borders to haitians, to afghans, and, yes, to ukrainians. earlier i spoke with the united nati...