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Ukrainian air force. ukrainians are starting to flee. stand still traffic as they are trieding to head west as the country reports dozens of deaths now so far. steve harrigan leads our coverage from kyiv. morning, steve, i was watching before our show went on the air when you were interviewing with "fox & friends first" and i heard -- saw the explosions behind you and you really -- you seemed to react with a lot of fear, understandably so. what was that experience like. tell the audience who is ...

They made that quest to meet, and frankly people were quite skeptical about it, to be honest, clearly the idea that they would meet in belarus just seemed so unlikely. and the ukrainians, understandably, saying, well, why would we go there when theyre a part to this conflict. as cal is setting out, they seem to have found some kind of neutral ground. but again, talking to one former official with close ties, close contacts inside the kremlin, his view, i was speaking to him earlier today, is tha...

Seeing first hand on the ground over there, the defense of ukraine is not just being waged by members of the ukrainian military. every day citizens are getting involved, arent they? >> its true. its been pretty extraordinary to see. the first couple of days you saw people in the state of shock and profound fear, understandably. today on the streets we were seeing a lot more defiance. people of all ages, men, women, coming out, volunteering, bigging sand bigs. we interviewed one grandmother, a re...

Vladimir putin was very clear in his speech is about as intended. unless hes made to stop, and less hes made to pay a price that is not willing to pay for his gain, he will keep going. im afraid that maybe he wont intentionally strike and nato country, that he wont seek to do it on purpose, but he very well could by accident. he could stumble into a war because once you keep moving through ukraine all the way up to the border and takes the whole country come youre going to have seven nato countr...

At the train station, 7-year-old maxine faces his mothers legs. hes not used to the crowds. its all scary and confusing. >> they waited for two whole days. >> reporter: your mother? its tearing her apart, but her husband who is not ukrainian is out with her. how do you say good-bye to the love of your life, the father of your children? this woman is not the only one in tears. others as well, understandably, not wanting to talk. we cant take it. it makes us cry too much, they say. arwa daman, cnn...

Werent theyre able to get into countries is still a question. ngos are stepping up their efforts. the politics are not easy. a refugee crisis in 2015 changed the face of governments across the continent. it is as serious as it gets here and we still dont -- we know theres fighting 16 miles from kyiv at an airfield where russian pair troopers have landed on the ground. thats terrifying for the population that lives in the capital city. >> understandably so. we talked about the military aspect. iv...

Morning your time. its been a very long night for the residents of kyiv. tell us about what you experienced through the second time -- nate. with the information is like now in the capital? >> there were explosions throughout the night. not constant, sporadic explosions. some people spent the night in shelters. some people hang out next to shelters. as you can see here, these people are waiting inside this garage. thats actually a bomb shelter. lots more people thinking about leaving. because th...

Cut off the city and then wait. but people are scared. understandably. they dont know what the coming days will bring. they are stocking up on any sort of supplies that they can get. but remember when you have so many people running to the stores have the same time, the lines around the block. so people are waiting in line all day to get supplies but may be they also need medicine and other things with their families and kids. so they have to take all these things in mind as he was seen firsthan...

Taken down into the basement of that building. there were sandbags everywhere. there were military forces everywhere. machine gun outposts, really defending it very, very carefully. its just one of the locations, apparently, where he can be located and he moves, were told, to various places around the city. but -- she appeared, of course, in military fatigues, in the khaki sort of t-shirts and trousers weve seen him in so often in social media posts. he looked very tired. he looked quite stresse...

Tucker? >> tucker: trey yingst for us in ukraine, thank you so much. everyone loves sanctions, they seem like a relatively painless way to punish people who deserve to be punished, vladimir putin, for example, a lot of people were upset about the invasion of ukraine, understandably, so why not sanction putin? there are two questions you have to answer before you move forward with a policy like that: the sanctions punish the people they are intended to punish? the second is are there unintended c...