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Welcome. mentioned earlier that you wanted to make this trip for awhile now. why now and also, can you tell me me what you think the message you're sending to putin given 24 hours ago you were on the f art behind you and now you stand here with the president? tr >> translator: thank you very much for your question. as to what is the message for putin, i am standing here in the united states with president biden on the same podium because i respect him as a person, as a president, as a human being for his position and for me, this is a historic moment. i can send messages to president

>> we started calling our relatives, friends, asking how they are there and people were panicking. >> yeah. the conditions was pretty bad. >> so, alex, tell me about the first family that you helped escape? tr >> translator: he's my childhood friend. we met when we were 5 or 6 years old. >> i met them, and their daughter was about to celebrate their 7th birthday and at times it is still so hard for them to even tell their story. >> translator: an explosion wave took out our front door and looters came in and took whatever they liked. >> we decided that we have to help them get them out from th...

Grandmother, and i would like to be back in my town because here everything looks very unfamiliar to me, unknown. >> it must be tough being a kid and having to go through all this. >> translator: a bit. >> reporter: they are, after all, only 11 and 9. but they find themselves having to comfort their much younger siblings. >> yegor, what do you tell your little sister in the other room when she gets worried? >> translator: i tell her everything is going to be fine and that it will end soon. >> reporter: relatively, these children are lucky. thousands of ukrainians, including the nation's younge...

>> reporter: a show of solidarity between autocrats as the future of european security hangs in the balance. >> translator: i'm glad to hold the first in-person meeting with president putin in more than two years. tr >> translator: they are investigation with strategic partnership and have reached an unprecedented level. >> reporter: meeting as the beijing olympics are getting underway, pledging in a jimmie statement that there are no limits to their friendship and sending an ominous sign. saying both nations oppose further enlargement of nato and intend to have interference by outside forces....

Meanwhile spoke with u.s. lawmakers on saturday, asking again for a no-fly zone in the skies over ukraine. and also more military support. he also spoke with president joe biden. and as the fighting presses on across his nation, mr. zelenskyy is urging his people to not give up. tr >> translator: ukraine, which we know, love, protect, and will not give up to any enemy, when you don't have a firearm, but they respond with gunshots and you don't run. this is the reason why occupation is temporary. our people, ukrainians, don't back down. >> angry protesters showing their defiance as russian troo...