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Theyve undergone sanctions in 2014 for russias first invasion of ukraine, but this seeming to be much bigger. putin seems to be incredibly angry about the situation. the russian government still figuring out what to do about it, kate. >> nic robertson in moscow, thank you so much. so this morning, we get a clearer picture of the growing refugee crisis that russias invasion is creating. the united nations reporting half a million people have been forced to flee the country in the last five days. ...

These children, two weeks in, we are not crying and. where are they used to it are they in the state of shock? >> i think theyre in a state of shock. theyre trying to process what is going on. and as you have called it -- 2 million people have left the country, among them 1 million children. just that gives you a figure -- an estimate of the magnitude of how many children have been going through traumatizing effects. but what we are trying to do is help mothers and help families to bring back a ...

Thousands that are crossing into countries like poland, moldova and beyond. >> lets talk about kyiv for a moment because this has been one of the key transit points for people moving on and going to places like poland. but its also become something like a life boat, because ive seen the city grow in the last few weeks and the city is a little overwhelmed. are you finding youre serving new sort of temporary residents here as well? >> absolutely. the city is bursting at the seams right now. every ...

Station in poland near the border. polish mothers leaving their strollers filled with supplies at the station for desperate ukrainian parents traveling with their children. joining us now, kelly cobiella, live from the polish border with ukraine. kelly, are you seeing something like that continue and just, it seems like its increasing. >> yeah, well, were one of the busier -- one of the busiest transit points, really. this train station. you can see how hectic as its as we show you around here a...

Of shock. theyre trying to process what is going on. and as you have called it -- 2 million people have left the country, among them 1 million children. just that gives you a figure -- an estimate of the magnitude of how many children have been going through traumatizing effects. but what we are trying to do is help mothers and help families to bring back a sense of normalcy. so weve been working with social centers, with hospitals, with all the sort of points, transit points as well, where chil...

Fight. so this is part of what weve been told by nato officials as well is that nato as a bloc is not providing that defensive assistance to ukraine. it is actually the nato members and they have actually been told not to even discuss it amongst themselves what kind of weaponry theyre sending and what transit points. nato is playing no coordinating role when it comes to providing weaponry to ukraine. its all because of security, because the russians have made the statement about potentially targ...

Many loud explosions. i guess that this comes on the same day that biden is in poland and that theyve announced their strategic goal was to secure the east. i mean what are they -- what about the timing? what do you make of the timing? >> well, its not necessarily inconsistent, and this is not to downplay the destructiveness or the barbarity and the casualties that come with this. but it is targeting, again, a fuel depot, warehouses, transit points, infrastructure so they can destroy as much as ...

40000 people for context thats roughly the size of a population of the center city washington d.c. theres no way to calculate at this point how many people are here because so many have poured in here in recent weeks from other towns and many of them are staying. many are continuing to other countries. trenches on the centered transit points to get into poland. people are taking the train there about 3.7 million people have fled the country for other places but still double the number of refugee...

We dont have those numbers yet. as we moved to evacuate people a number of them are at transit points around the world. >> tens of thousands? >> realistically two things. one, we talked about this a little bit earlier but of the applicants in the program, and as i said we inherited about 18,000. about half of those. this remains the case now, are at a point where it is before the chief of mission has given his or her approval they are in fact eligible for the program. we focused on the -- >> i w...

People a number of them are still at transit points around the world -- >> but it would be tens of thousands? >> realistically, two things, one, we talked about this a little earlier, but of the applicants in the program, the -- as i said, we inherited about 18,000. about half of those -- this remains more or less the case now, are at a point where its before the chief admission has given his or her approval that they are in fact, eligible for the program. >> i am looking for a number, and i gue...