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Covered in some sprinkles of snow, basically. >> yeah. >> and even -- you can see residents living on both sides of this battle front and people are going back and forth with groceries, water, and they're just kind of moving really quickly. >> let me ask you about the people you met there because we heard from president zelenskyy, his interview with matthew chance, that they need more air cover. ukraine needs support from the u.s., from the west. he says that ukraine going directly at -- i've got to interrupt this conversation. let's go to the secretary of state with a statement. >> the assaul...

>> right now we're hearing more from the president of ukraine tonight. he's pleading with his people to keep fighting the good fight and vowing ukrainians will not give their country away to an enemy. my colleague and friend anderson cooper is in ukraine and joins us once again. he'll be with us throughout this hour. anderson, as president zelenskyy is trying to rally his people, tell our viewers what is happening on the ground tonight. >> reporter: obviously, wolf, there is growing concern and fear, desperation and widening destruction in and around key cities across ukraine as civilians are ...

Two hours. ukrainians are fighting a valiant fight right now. >> they are and have been all this past week. witnessing remarkable strength by a people under assault. cnn's's collaka lissa ward. >> reporter: tonight new images emerging from the battle front. ukrainian armed forces releasing this video of the moment they say they shot down a russian helicopter. the fire engulfed aircrafthushd hurdling towards the ground and now a fighter jet falls from the sky afterreportedly taken down by the ukrainian forces.

Border and turned around and gone back to the battle front. or to the areas to protect their city. the humanitarian crisis is unlike anything i have seen before. over night it was the numbers were around 150,000. we woke up today it was near 400,000. and i would tell you there's hundreds of thousands of more people waiting to get in. every train station out of ukraine is packed. people are trying to get out any way they can. so hungry to poland. it's a sad situation. the families are fleeing because they are afraid. they are truly afraid. they're not sure what's going to happen in their hometo...

There are lots of complicated technology issues they're trying to think through about how to help boost the broadband connection, if you will, so people can see and here what is going on the battle front. i think as time goes forward, if putin insists on continuing with this war, the pressure at home is going to grow. the effect of the economic sanctions, i think is even more powerful than the u.s. expected. that's the early assessment as people look at what happens when you have no more visa card, no more mastercard, no way to buy things electronically. you have increasing shortages of all of...