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Positioned yourself. >> hello from north kyiv. yes, i moved to kyiv in late 2020. it's a beautiful country, a beautiful people here many if ukraine, and so life was very good for me here. so with this invasion, as it got closer and closer, i started to think about what i was going to do, ask i decided that i was going to stand here and fight with the people of ukraine. the georgia foreign legion has been active here for about a eight years. after their war with russia, they started saying that ukraine was next, and for many years they've been preparing for this moment. so i've been helping the...

Everybody's 100% behind their native home here. griff: paul if, thank you for your service to our nation. as someone who spent some time in iraq, i've seen the fierce fighting you've done. you're not with u.s. troops, you are, obviously, with ukrainian forces, and it does appear that the russians are continuing to soften the battle space, if you will, and surround kyiv which you know what happens next. are you worried for your own life? >> i'm worried for the children, i'm worried for the families here, ask so -- and so i'm going to do what i need to do as a friend and ally of ukraine. and i'm...

>> thank you for the support you've provided ukraine. i was on the phone today for the better part of an hour with zelenskyy, who i speak to almost daily. >> reporter: and president biden saying that there will be a severe price for russia to pay if putin orders the use of chemical weapons, but he's not saying yet what that severe price would be with. griff? griff: peter doocy live for us at the white house, thank you. meanwhile, ukrainians continue to dig in against the russian invaders, and they're not alone in their fight. local officials say over 26,000 volunteers from 50 different countri...

Griff: paul, stay safe. thank you for taking time to join us and please check in with us as the battle continues to give us updates. thank you, sir. >> thank you, god bless. molly: millions of ukrainians are fleeing this escalating russian war straining resources in neighboring countries as local officials scramble to accommodate the ongoing flood of refugees. alex hogan joins us live from inside a refugee center in poland. alex, what are you seeing there now? >> reporter: hi, or molly. this is what fleeing your country in a time of war looks like. if you don't have anyone else in another coun...

Ukrainian resistance is, and they survive and fend off the russian forces as they close in on you in the capital city? >> so the whole entire population has -- all the roads that are still in ukrainian control are on lockdown. the entire population here in ukraine has rallied behind the country, and the war atrocities are on social media. everybody is just aghast at what's going on here, and they're starting to target civilians as well as military. but we -- from the younger generation to older generation, i remember soviet times whole country is fiercely fighting for the independence that the...