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Activists. he said russian soldiers are setting up check points and robbing apartments and vehicles. 2.2 million ukrainians have left the country and travelled do bordering nations. 1.3 million are in poland, hundreds of thousands have fled to hungary, slow vauk yeah, moldova and romania and other countries. joining us from the polish border, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella. kelly, you are at another border crossing. what does it look like there today? >> reporter: willie, this is a very small border crossing. just in the distance where you see the red tents is actually the ukrainian sid...

States. but, you know, speaking to even jor o senior officials here, they are grateful for the aid that the u.s. is giving, certainly for the anti-tank and airity air weapons that have made a big difference in pushes forces back. especially around kyiv. but of course ukrainians would like to see even more aid. >> and we've learned that russia has apparently halted its advance around the capital city, but what is the late thaes you are seeing on the ground there? >> reporter: well, there is still massive battles going on around kyiv. this is very much a warzone. there is no other way to describ...

Trying to help folks get out. talk about the complexiies of at this stage trying to get out of some of these cities where cal just said the russians are attacking people as they're trying to flee. >> yeah, thank you for having me on the show. i helped two families so far in addition to a third one indirectly. if you're in the northwest for example, a suburb of kyiv and so the family that we took out, they were in the shelter for three days. they were after constant bombings and attacks, the russians were close there. first of all, it's psychological when we picked up the family, they were foll...

If they're lucky, their family members with them. so there are estimates of at least 200,000 people on some 52 buses that finally made it through many check points to ukrainian controlled territory. >> ivan watson, thank you very much, joining us now ma manuel fonte, unicef director of office emergency programs, joining us, in vinnytsia, ukraine, thank you for joining us. what we just heard from ivan, it's very difficult to get into mariupol and certainly to get people out. what worries you most about the humanitarian situation for the people trapped there? >> well, what worries us most is we ...

Their ground down. our fredredric pleitgen shows us how the capital is preparing for what comes next. >> reporter: the ukrainian capital kyiv is still very much on a war footing. we're right in the city center. as you can see there's a tank bar barrier there was setup here with sandbags, obviously a defensive position. and this is something you really see throughout the entire city with a lot of check points, a lot of soldiers on the ground, defense forces as well. we are literally in the city center. over there you see the midan of course right in the middle of the ukrainian capital. at the s...