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Which is the side of the fiercest fighting of the war so far. what kind of a risk is he taking by getting on a plane, traveling halfway around the world, to the united states, the personal risk for him, and also the risk being gone from his country for any period of time? >> i think it's going to be a quick trip for president zelenskyy. i think the risk is minimal. he's got a battle-tested chain of command over there. he's got hard fighting troops. they're doing their best. this is a window of opportunity for ukraine, and a window of danger as well. because russia is weak, russia will be be st...

But if you want to make history, you gotta call your own shots. we going to the league! ukrainian civilians fleeing the country to try to find a chance at safety from russian bombings. poland says it has already received 1 million refugees as the crisis is only just beginning. cnn reporters covering the latest. >> i'm scott mclean on the polish border in ukraine where yet another round of bombing and shelling in the country is sending people fleeing to get out. poland says now more than 1 million people have entered the country since the war began. this is just the latest wave. most of these...

They're also going to be used to shoot at civilians if necessary. >> do the russians have what it takes to occupy kyiv if they want to? >> that's a good question. they've got a long history of occupying after bitter, hard fighting. stalingrad in 1942, grozny, they helped out in aleppo. that is a war -- that is an urban combat fight that takes a lot of troops and you have to have a lot of spine because you're going to take a lot of casualties. the ukrainians, if they fight the city combat well, can take a devastating toll on the russians. >> this comes at an enormous cost to the ukrainian peopl...

Sam. >> that's absolutely right. they said two things had combined together to precipitate this exodus from zap reyes yeah, about an hour's drive from where i'm standing, a similar level of anxiety is beginning to grip dnipro. there are sirens going on at the moment. that's an almost all-day daily occurrence. it was, first of all, the attack on this nuclear power station, the biggest in europe. six reactors plus a storage area for used rods. a highly dangerous thing to do. never in the history of human kind has a nuclear reactor been subjected to an armed assault, much less actual strikes. thi...

He also wants the south, which would mean that he would have to fight for mariupol all the way to kirsten through odesa. so pretty ambitious. when you take a look at the ukrainians, they have done a fabulous job defeating the russians. however, hard fighting, in my view, has not happened yet. the russians are used to fighting in the donbas. they have russian separatists there, groups down there, other separatists are down there. i think they will experience a hard fight. it will be critical for the west to get totally behind president zelenskyy and give him everything he needs to fight. this w...