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>> reporter: she broke the war news to her family in russia. >> and said what? ukraine? >> in russia. >> but nobody know about news. news with russian, nothing say about it. >> they didn't know? >> with russia, news -- >> the news is controlled. >> not only controlled. absolutely different, and liar. >> by the time we passed the checkpoint, it was howeurs past dark. the roads remote. the curves, sharp. sud lien after so many hours at the checkpoint, it was disconcerting. we didn't see a single car until anywhere near a border. this line is for the slovakian border. that line was at least 14 ho...

Taking us, but then the traffic was really horrible. we had to -- we came down the car and started walking. it was like five hours of walk and then we keep going, we keep going. it was like you end up being -- we started walking around 2:00 a.m. and then we get there at 8:00 p.m. the next day. >> wow. that's a long walk. and it was freezing temperatures? >> yeah. very cold. it was snowing a little bit. it was like really cold outside. >> and, look, we have heard plenty of stories and seen with our own eyes incidents of racism or people trying to get out. this is something you experienced yours...

Hear the bombing also on that place where we were staying with our relatives, we decided to go west. so now currently i'm on my way to the western border. here i feel safe. during the day i hear firing. during the night we hear sirens. they're targeting main cities mainly, not at the small ones. >> have you been able, olga, to talk to your husband? >> yes, i've been able, and he's with me actually. i'm not leaving him. but i don't know if we decide -- if we decide to go abroad, like if we decide to flee to hungary or to poland, if we can go to the western borders of ukraine, i don't know if he...

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Their country. and as you mentioned, the united nation says it's at least 1.2 million people. the movement of people is complicated by the fact that this country which borders ukraine has had to close its airspace since the first day of the russian invasion to protect civilian air traffic. so people are coming in here are then having to cross another border to romania to try to catch flights deeper into europe to try to meet up with friends or family to take temporary shelter. none of these people know what will happen next in their lives, and there are the security questions for the neighbors...