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Firefighters. >> how are you doing? >> reporter: the collection effort nothing short of monumental, was the idea of oleg, who was born in central ukraine and moved to the u.s. when he was 14. three years ago he joined clifton, new jersey's fire department. >> seeing how the brotherhood runs through the department, that was one of the reasons. >> reporter: when russia invaded his home country, he says he knew his ukrainian brothers needed him too. >> you see the brotherhood not just in united states but all over the country, and including our cities. everybody comes in at once in the time of ne...

Stepan couldn't be saved, and because of staff shortages of the morgue, oleg had to prepare his son's body for burial himself. >> translator: i had to wash him, to dress him. his head from his right ear to his left ear, one large hematoma. his arms, his legs, a total hematoma not compatible with life. and besides that, lots of other wounds were discovered after death. >> reporter: many other houses have also been hit here. the police tell me the russians shell the town every day. we bumped into 84-year-old halina in the town center. she was a child when the nazis invaded this area, and says no...

Russian armored vehicles had come off the road to avoid mines only to find themselves unable to cross the bridge and unable to reverse in time. none of the soldiers inside survived. a little further up the road, two tanks have been virtually smelted, blasted almost to smithereens. he tells us this was his hand work. we all have one role, to keep the enemy off our land. the first thing they did after seeing the village, they started to shell houses just like that. they didn't see us. they didn't know we were here, so they just started to work on houses. and so i took the tank in my sights and i...

So i really want you to settle in for this one. okay? are you watching? a family whose story i've been following from the start of the war. and i got to meet them all today. reunited after surviving what everyone who's been through it has called hell on earth. so let me explain this. you may be remember joe ramers. if you take a look he's all the way on the left. he's an american in ukraine there with his wife dasha who is ukrainian. they first came on this show to talk about their own escape from kyiv when putin's invasion began. but dasha's family had been trapped in mariupol, where russia h...

Handiwork. we all only have one role, to keep the enemy off our land. they started to shell houses just like that. they didn't see us. they didn't know they were here. so they just started to work on houses. so i took the tank in my sights and i fired a rocket. and good-bye to him. the destroyed vehicles are stamped with an "o." the ukrainian officers here tell us this identifies them as russian units that entered from belarus to the north. oleg is the officer who commanded this operation. looking at previous fighting, we have better training. we are stronger morale and spirit because we are a...