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Weekend, many unsure where to go. yelena, her daughter and 85-year-old mother say they walked the last 50 miles to the polish border. >> when we cross, my mother began to cry because my mother needs help. all these people, thank you very much. thank you. i'm sorry. >> reporter: they're on their way to warsaw, then germany, eventually hoping to get visas to the u.s. at temporary shelters, refugees only stay a night or two. volunteers help them find more permanent places to stay to make room for the next wave. across europe, more than 300,000 refugees are staying with relatives and friends or ho...

Ukrainians are going through? this is what she told us. >> i think that people have to know, ukraine is a peaceful country. we do not want to attack anyone, we have no such plans. we are the ones who protect, to actually. we couldn't imagine that putin would make such a decision. i just want everybody to live in peace. and, i also want other countries to ever experience what we are, right now. >> she had been waiting in line for an hour, to try to see if there is some place for her to stay the night. the next few days, until the fighting stops. she said, if she did not get a room after waiting...

We know how to do it. we face down as an alliance, we faced down the soviet union. we faced down worse adversaries than vladimir putin. we're confident we will do it. it will take a lot of investment in our defense. it will take a lot of political effort in maintaining the unity that we have demonstrated over the past four weeks. this war in ukraine, this aggression, is pivotal. once the fighting stops, we will have a new era in european security. we need to prepare ourselves for the long haul. it will be a long, new era, which will be different from the previous one. >> so, mr. secretary-gene...

Local school that was destroyed by russian artillery at the start of the war. it will be ten years before people can come back he says. all this territory needs to be demined. but that process can't even begin until the fighting stops. our guide has asked us now to put on our helmets because apparently the separatists have actually been using drones to drop coordinates on some of the soldiers here. alexander says it's time to move on. concerned we may have been spotted. we push further north to the mining down, once under the control of russian-backed separatists, was taken back by the ukraini...

Just devastation. even the church was hit. in war, nothing is sacred. after five long years, the world's attention has basically moved on from ukraine, but the war here is not over yet and crane is still very much dependent on the support of the u.s. ukrainian marine alexander shows us what is left of the local school. it was destroyed by russian artillery at the start of the war. it will be ten years before people can come back, he says. all this territory needs to be demined. but that process can't even begin until the fighting stops. our guide has asked us now to put on our helmets because ...