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From ukrainian officials, they are now saying that 2,000 ukrainian civilians, that may include military members as well, 2,000 ukrainians have been killed so far in this russian invasion of ukraine. that is a new number were getting from ukrainian officials. were going to get much more on that. thats a pretty high number at this point. and it comes as there is a new message this morning from ukrainian president to his people on their collective fight for survival. >> translator: we hardly slept ...

2016. sir, thank you so much for being with us. there are, of course, americans who have trained ukrainians, youve been a big part of that, and i think people watching have been surprised by the effectiveness of the ukrainian military. i wonder if you are. >> no, im not surprised at all. this is -- this is the manifestation of not only the u.s. work, but natos work, since 2014, 2015 time frame, when we provided extensive advisory support and turning support to the ukrainian armed forces. i would...

One family, one group at a time. this is a very international group of people fleeing. i talked to indians, nigerians, sudanese, and, of course, ukrainians, i saw a family carrying their red -- their ginger cat in a cat carrier as they came out, people coming from all over ukraine and meanwhile, on the other side here, we have one group of ukrainian doctors, women who were outside of the country on a business trip when the war broke out and are going back in shortly to collect their children who...

Sanctions as well. jeff, great to have you. thank you so much, jeffrey edmonds. a massive wave of ukrainians desperately fleeing their homes to escape russias violence, where theyre going, what theyre willing to do to get out. well have that next. well speak with the ukrainian woman who confronted british prime minister boris johnson.

Sharp distinction between american military noninvolvement in ukraine and saying not one inch of nato territory. but if youre watching a horror play out on your tv screen, as we all are here, you know, it is hard for many americans to figure out why would we defend, you know, a nato member and not defend the ukrainians. >> they may be watching putin with his gateway drug, right, to the baltic states. it is entirely possible here. thank you so much to both of you. cnns breaking news coverage cont...

Civilians. want to bring in cnns matthew chance, hes in ukrainian capital. and we did just hear again from president zelenskyy and as one part of the remarkable reporting youve done, you actually spoke to the president in his bunker. >> reporter: i did, indeed. we were moved to a -- invited to an undisclosed location in the center of kyiv, a specific secret location, taken into a car and driven somewhere else, didnt know where it was, but still in the center of the city and we were sort of herde...