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Need to bring more to the table. the russians can finally feel that no matter how much they throw in, we will still keep fighting. >> you've been posting photographs of yourself armed, ready to help your country's fight. what has that fight been like for you? what have you encountered? have you fired that gun? >> well, the skirmishes in the city which i was a part of. there was plenty of incursions. the russians started into the town at the beginning of the invasion. every single one of them reports, every one of them pushed back and basically, now the city is under martial law and there are c...

Have a safe point in the polish country. they have family from ukraine. >> reporter: the food, the people you see here, all of this stuff has been donated by members of the local community, hoping that they can do something here to help. you see people cross through these check points. they are often in tears. grateful to be reunited with their loved ones. the people on this side grateful to see them make it across safely. remember now in ukraine men are not able to leave the country if they are of fighting age. so, we are seeing and hearing story of fathers, brothers, husbands coming to check...

In less than 24 hours in normal circumstances but so many check points along the way. another family from there as well. three trains and then a bus and crossing the border on foot and of course, many people are also trapped in cities. so once, if these humanitarian corridors pan out and if people are allowed out of places like mariupol, you could have hundreds of thousands of more people fleeing for the border and once people get to the border, kate, as we found out yesterday, the journey still far from over. we met one woman who was stuck in line in her car with her family for more than 24 h...

Like where you are right now, erin. >> reporter: so what happened was, pamela, to get here it took another 16, 17 hours, and we passed various border crossings. we also, you know, one checkpoint alone took us over 6 hours because there's military check points in the towns. men are building up concrete. they're putting big piles of tires presumably in case they need to burn them to stop a russian invasion. so you have that and just lines and lines of people all of them trying to head for the borders. and right now we went by polish border, slovakia border and now we're here at the hungary borde...

Thanks for joining us. how many people are we seeing come across the border just over the last 24 hours? and how many more are expected to arrive? and where are they going? >> reporter: so, in poland, the polish government says they've seen 100,000 ukrainian refugees cross into the country really in the last 48 hours. they expect those numbers to continue to rise. this is one of eight check points in poland, where people can come from ukraine to cross over. at this check point, you are only able to cross through if you were traveling by car. but others, they allow you to crosby foot and also b...