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But the advantage of a soviet-era design such as this is that the ukrainian military is already familiar with its operation. phil black, thank you, as always for your reporting. stay safe out there. cnn s salma an del aziz joins us now from near the polish/ukrainian border. salma, good morning. thousands are still fleeing these cities. what are you seeing in poland this morning. absolutely, 2.4 million, over 2.4 million refugees are now in poland. and they come through these crossing points. and one of the main ones is this train station where i am. right up near the border. and they come through here, and it s really a halfway point. oftentimes, we don t even know when the trains are going to come, because of the situation on the ground. we have to ask around, when s the next train coming? and when they do arrive, i want you to take a look at what they see. they ll get in here in this main area, the main doors to the ....
Destructions, but we cannot possibly return people who were killed. i cannot even imagine like who gave this order and why. they were civilian people. they were not military. re a ukrainian defense official says that the kyiv region has been, quote, liberated, from the invaders, but ukraine is bracing for more attacks in the east, as russia now shifts its strategy, according to u.s. intelligence, this is new cnn reporting, russia s goal is to take control of the donbas and other eastern regions by early may. a noticeable shift there. ukraine, meantime, still asking for heavy weapons, as russia shifts its focus. the u.s. is expected to help transfer some soviet-era tanks from ukraine, according to a source familiar with the plan. let s get you up to date with the situation on the ground. our correspondents are following the story from multiple angles. that s right, we ve got ed lavendera in odesa, phil black joins us from lviv, and salma an ....
Pope. thank you so much. thanks, kim. international travel plans have been thrown into turmoil this holiday season, as countries around the world rush to stop the spread of the omicron variant. many of the new travel restrictions are aimed at arrivals from southern africa, where omicron was first detected. the u.s. will impose new rules on monday that single out travelers from eight countries in southern africa. similar restrictions in the uk also begin on monday. now, parts of europe were already facing new lockdowns, mask mandates and other restrictions before the omicron variant was even know about. cnn s salma an del aziz is in london. take us through the new restrictions aimed at both the delta and omicron variants. just as you mentioned, this was a region that was already very much in the grips of another wave of covid-19. we were seeing countries like germany go into partial lockdowns. austria was in a full lockdown. new rules were being put into place in italy around face ....