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Clarissa, what are you seeing? >> reporter: so, john, you may remember over the weekend we were on that bridge just about 200, 300 yards in that direction where people have been flooding in from this bombarded area, northwestern kyiv suburb. we're now here at this kind of staging ground. you can see there soldiers waiting around for people who are arriving. there has been still a steady stream of them coming in all day long. in fact, you can see just over here a group of people who have just arrived. a lot of these people are happy and relieved to be alive. they're reuniting with relatives. th...

Officials. while the u.s. obviously sanctioned belarusian president lukashenko and 11 russian military leaders. what's the goal of the new sanctions? >> reporter: well, the new sanctions that russia imposed on the american officials is largely symbolic, right? they wanted to retaliate against the sanctions that the west and the u.s. have imposed against russian officials and jen psaki joked about it during a press conference earlier today saying it seems they actually sanctioned the wrong joe biden because they sanctioned the president but they did not sanction joe biden jr. they sanctioned jo...

Expanding some of their target sets. >> reporter: a senior u.s. official warning the russians could now target lviv "to create more terror." the russians fearing the city is a staging ground for western weapons, foreign fighters, and high-ranking members of ukraine's resistance. we met up with americans training with volunteer soldiers from around the world at a secret location in western ukraine. tunnels snaking underground and are ready to fight. 25-year-old harrison jozefowicz, a veteran who did a tour in afghanistan, quit his job as a chicago police officer to come here. >> we're all comin...

Russian forces hurling grenades at civilians yesterday while gunfire could be clearly heard. the first major ukrainian city to fall to russia earlier this month was kherson and has been contentious demonstrations to protest the occupation. president zelenskyy addressed the violence there with a message on social media yesterday saying quote we will never forget these shots. a senior nato official tells nbc news that belarus may try to help russia get the upper hand in ukraine as war appears to be approaching a stalemate. the official says belarus may soon also attack ukraine and could allow ...

They described horrifying scenes not being able to talk to people. their loved ones cut off. no cell phones. pinned down in basements. no electricity. no food. and just the emotion that you're seeing as these people in a matter of 15 minutes have crossed over from an absolute hell scape into the relative security of this staging ground. you do hear some artillery here, but it's not as close as it has been on other days. and basically what they're trying to do now the authorities they've got ambulances. they've got a tent over there. where they are taking some of the people, the more vulnerable...