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You need front line war correspondents. you need emergency planning for security. you need, literally, to buy flak jackets for your staff. and you didn't have any money. how have you coped? yes, exactly. we had almost nothing when it started. you know, in the days leading up to the invasion, when big companies and businesses, and even journalistic organisations were putting in order complicated, expensive plans, many of them relocating their staff to other places, all we could do was get together and do some very basic planning as to what happens, what we do if kyiv was threatened, if ukraine ...

Could happen is going to be — you know, there's going to be an escalation in eastern ukraine, but to imagine kyiv being targeted was nearly impossible. so when the invasion did happen, we didn't have flak jackets, we didn't have the equipment we needed to be war reporters. what we did have was very dedicated staff. several of us, fortunately, have experience reporting at the front line in eastern ukraine, where the war has been raging since 2014. so, the three people who had the most experience in reporting that, they stayed in kyiv during that first month, when the so—called battle of kyi...

Terrorist acts remains. farmers in flak jackets have found themselves on the front line. russian forces setting fire to wheat fields, shelling farms and storage facilities. "my friends have already become victims of shelling. who have nothing left," yuri tells us. everything has been destroyed. russia's grip over ukraine's grains remain a weapon in its arsenal, starving ukraine of valuable resources and the world of vital food supplies. charlie d'agata, cbs news, odesa, ukraine. and straight ahead on the e unthinkable price of survival in africa's newest nation. and later, a field of dream...

And we don't want to abandon it now in this time of need. >> andrew is a 51-year-old entrepreneur, who has lived in ukraine since graduating college. months of intense shelling and -- have disrupted water and electricity services. and he saw an opportunity to help. >> yes. >> he supplies generators to towns without power. >> we take a generator and send it to these areas. so that they can get back on their own two feet. >> he gets laptops for frontline troops. he's also buying them flak jackets and other supplies with money he is racing, in part, from americans. >> i want to do my tiny little ...

In the baltics gets under way in estonia today, involving ten countries, including the uk, us, finland and sweden. james waterhouse reports. "we have made it mr, president. we are here." where these ukrainian soldiers say they are is in the kharkiv region on the russian border. the invaders seem to have left the area surrounding ukraine second's largest city, kharkiv. leaving behind now familiar trails. translation: the russians left really quickly. _ they didn't have time to loot much. we saw what we think were the headquarters. many positions were abandoned, flak jackets and helmets lying ar...