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Or that they would be fighting in a war. a lot of these videos that were seeing on this ukrainian website are of young boys who look like theyre 18, 19, who are scared and surprised. and it does seem that these people were told, the russians have been saying, that the soldiers would be met with flowers and instead theyre being met with a fierce resistance from the ukrainian people. >> now that the reality is sinking in for those family members, what are those families saying? >> well, those fami...

Thats a dark dimension to this war. not just a war in reality. its a war over reality. its a war about how we defun reality and whats good and whats evil. he wants these terms to mean whatever he said the mean. if he wins there, that would be a terrible victory. >> nothing is black or white here, its a complex situation, but when you talk about good and evil, what needs to happen? how does it end with the good guys winning? >> honestly, ana, i do think some things are black and white. i think re...

So that sanctions can give russians time to think about whats comes next. and the russian elites, russian officers and soldiers who need to decide whether this is a war they ought to be fighting. some combination of those things can bring about a peaceful resolution to this. but i am afraid thats not going to involve putin admitting that he was wrong. nevertheless, i think we shouldnt give up hope there can be some kind of a compromise. the ukrainians are the ones who are taking the risk and the...

Independent media outlets have been stifled. its illegal to call whats happening anything besides a special military operation, so the terms war and invasion are banned. schools are undergoing patriotic lessons about the military operation and being caught to support whats going on. and its very difficult in russia to get any real news about whats happening. >> i think thats such an important point. that putin is able to control media and the messaging in russia. but i do wonder when russian peo...

For parents who are able to bring their children. oftentimes its just the mother and father able to bring the child. but theyre coming on packed trains by vehicles, if they can, on buses if they can. its extremely difficult for them just to get here, and even here theres air raids virtually every day. the kids have to move down. theyre trying to get these kids to poland. its an extraordinary situation to see on top of a war to see these children dealing with cancer and their lives really hanging...

Preparing and already involved. i want to show you some of the civilians that we talked to over the last day or so here. >> were looking at images right now, of, i think, molotov cocktail making factory. i dont know if thats an official factory, but theyve been stocking up it looks like. >> yeah, in fact, its an old brewery thats now making molotov cocktails to a lot of which theyve sent further east, some of which theyve distributed throughout this city in other apartment complexes, people gath...