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Quiet. there's a curfew now in place. as we were making our way outside the capital, it wasn't until about 25 miles outside of the city that we saw the first check point. there has been a number of check points along the highway. heavily armed ukrainian troops stopping cars, checking people's paperwork, and then allowing them to then move on. we've also seen long lines at gas stations. long lines at supermarkets, people stocking up on supplies. we've also seen villages preparing for battle. we've seen people on the side of the road filling up sandbags, practicing with rifles, and i saw a civil...

For another four hours. for the masses of people here, it's worth the wait. now those yellow city buses there, we've seen already this morning a convoy about five or six of them headed to the border, they're allowed to skip the check points here. as for the status of those corridors, there is another round of negotiations between the ukrainians and russians happening at about five hours from now. yesterday, the red cross made very clear to both parties if they're serious about making these corridors work, have to roll up their sleeves and agree not just on the fact that there should be these c...

Of ballistic missiles and that kind of stuff that the russian military has and that they're capable of raining down on ukraine. it just -- i feel like we're at the edge of watching something pretty bad. >> i definitely appreciate the point you're making and concern you share. and before i get into the larger sort of cold war with the professor, we have promised one more such ground report. this is from cal perry live from ukraine. cal, go ahead. >> reporter: this conversation i think is the conversation that people are finally now having in ukraine. today a state of emergency where the governm...

Raising the suspicion everybody is not who they say they are. the military is stopped at check points. this city has gone into basically a lockdown. we are under curfew and i am 350 miles from the ukrainian capital. i am only 50 miles from the polish border. people never thought this place would be the place to go in lockdown and a curfew. the american diplomat corps moved here and planned to stay here and so unstable and that they are going to remain in poland. they were commuting back and forth every day. the embassies here are not advertising and not saying where they are and concerned abou...

Touch with different types of authorities and it's pretty difficult also because of lack of fuel for -- for cars and because of curfews and because of check points. however, i worry most about my family, because my family has been blocked in the city of kherson in the south of the country and they are on verge of humanitarian crisis. they already have food shortages and don't have electricity and they don't have transportation. they can't leave the city and they cannot -- the atm's, you can't send money there. you know, a lot of people who died there because they do not have medicine and they ...