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From cities because the bridges were destroyed. vehicles were able to transport some students to another city. from there they continued theirjourney city. from there they continued their journey to the western city. from there they continued theirjourney to the western border. it has been quite difficult. at this point now, people are refusing because of the risk of security. taxi drivers have extorted money. you can spend up to $100. taxi drivers are collecting $2000 to transport people from our city to another city. some people are crying because they cannot afford to pay $2000 and they are...

>> no. >> we separate. we don't know each other. >> don't know each other. >> yeah. >> we met on the train. >> o. and now, traveling together? >> yeah. trying. >> all right. so we can see the -- they are on a similar to an uber app. they are looking at trying to get a car. back in our van, about one hour later, we saw where those ride hires ended. >> we have just come to a complete stop. we are 28 1/2 miles from the border exactly. you hear or see cars going the other direction. now, we understand why. i was wondering why they were there. it's because people are getting to this point, and just...

Family over so they can go back and fight. yasmin? >> i've seen so many of those videos, and it is so incredibly heartbreaking. also heartbreaking to think about the fact that they're asking men, as you mentioned, from ages 18-60 to remain behind to defend their country. i'm sure there's many men at 60 years of age who didn't necessarily think that would be their fate right about now. thank you for your reporting on this. we appreciate it. please stay close. want to go now to a ukrainian citizen who is coordinating refugee efforts. joining me, ceo of go global ngo. thank you so much for join...

Challenges that we're dealing with is we're taking another family to the border, one who has cancer, and she definitely needs -- and her child. the husband needs to go with her to care for her and take care of her. she can't take care of the child alone. i'm doing my best with the contacts in the government to make an exception for him. i'm not sure that's going to happen. so it deals with not only displacement, but you're breaking families apart in this crises, and so you're dealing with the trauma of these kids saying good-bye to people saying -- you know, taking everything that they have al...

Just like you heard from the former president here tonight, against this russian invasion into ukraine, as we speak here, yasmin. >> all right. our thanks to vaughn hillyard for that. coming up, everybody, the rapidly growing refugee crisis along ukraine's western border. we'll be right back. g ukraine'sr g ukraine'sr we'll be right back. or fist bump there, or...oh! i can't wait to go there! or reunite there, ♪ ♪ start here. walgreens makes it easy to stay protected wherever you go. schedule your free covid-19 booster today.