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Relatives, friends, asking how they are there and people were panicking. >> yeah. the conditions was pretty bad. >> so, alex, tell me about the first family that you helped escape? >> translator: he's my childhood friend. we met when we were 5 or 6 years old. >> i met them, and their daughter was about to celebrate their 7th birthday and at times it is still so hard for them to even tell their story. >> translator: an explosion wave took out our front door and looters came in and took whatever they liked. >> we decided that we have to help them get them out from there somehow. >> they took the...

>> we started calling our relatives, friends, asking how they are there and people were panicking. >> yeah. the conditions was pretty bad. >> so, alex, tell me about the first family that you helped escape? tr >> translator: he's my childhood friend. we met when we were 5 or 6 years old. >> i met them, and their daughter was about to celebrate their 7th birthday and at times it is still so hard for them to even tell their story. >> translator: an explosion wave took out our front door and looters came in and took whatever they liked. >> we decided that we have to help them get them out from th...

Just months after they left ukraine. at times it is still so hard for them to even tell their story. >> an explosion wave took out our front door and looters came in and took whatever they liked. the shell fragments remain in my back and there is a hole in my head. >> the family escaped thanks to another family who lived 5,000 miles away. >> he is my childhood friend. we met when we were about 5 or 6 years old. >> reporter: alex and his siblings nick and angela came to the united states from ukraine over the past two decades and they started a small and now thriving business operating car deal...

Immigrated from ukraine years ago are doing everything they can, including opening their personal holmes and providing financial support. >> mariupol, ukraine, last christmas. mariupol ukraine, now. since the start of the war, more than 7 million people have been forced to flee ukraine. alexander urasov and his wife olga were just two of them. they were trapped in mariupol with their three children. i'm at the u.s. at a park in brooklyn, new york. the daughter was about to celebrate her seventh birthday. it was just months after they left ukraine, and at times, it is still so hard for them to ...