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joining the russian invasion. we are learning belarus renounced its nonnuclear status now, and the new rules could allow russia to place nuclear weapons in belarus which is already being used as a launch pad for the russian military. ukraine's president has little hope the conflict will be resolved. >> translator: alexander asked for the delegations to meet on the river and i emphasized this without any condition. i don't have faith in the result of the meeting but let them try
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so later on no scitizen of ukraine would doubt that i as president of ukraine would have not done what i could. >> russia keeps pressing forward. new satellite images showing a military convoy stretching more than 4 kilometers. this is on a road leading to the capital. in the south russian forces have taken control on ukraine's coast home to a small naval base. we are hearing that from the town's mayor. also intense fighting in and around ukraine's second largest city, and they released this
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video that shows a drone attack on russian forces outside kyiv. meanwhile russian president vladimir putin seems to be escalating the crisis, and he putting russia's knack clear deterrence forces on high alert. meanwhile the streets of kyiv are mostly empty, as ukraine's capital prepares for the russian forces. >> ukraine's capital is bracing for the worst, checkpoints with armed forces and sandbags stacked in front of the mayor's office in front of kyiv. >> there are no forces in kyiv right now according to the mayor, and there have been battles against them and the mayor says large groups of
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rus russi russian sub sub aturs. >> that's something that president putin has complained about for years. now his own forces are descending on the city, encircling it in order to try and topple this government and replace the president with a puppet who would answer to president putin. now four days into the russian invasion, there's mounting evidence of russia's attempt to circle the city, and plumes of smoke marking the areas of the most intense fighting. living in the city these days is not for the fainthearted.
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while we are out, right on cue, the arteries of the city also diverted. kyiv held strong. optimism has grown with the russian's in ability to take any real control here, but anybody knows it's far too soon for any confidence. cnn, kyiv. >> now, kyra rudic is a member of the russian parliament and she has been speaking with us throughout the assault. >> every single night after the war was declared was a tough one, and every night we are prepared for a fight because you never know with russians what is going to happen next. this is why it's so important that we are armed and that we
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are able to protect ourselves and to execute on our duty to help our country and to defend our country. we totally understand that putin right now is losing, and so that's why he will be raising the stakes and he will be putting more and more human force into the war so that's why it will be so important and so critical that people and citizens of kyiv and other larger cities will be protecting the cities themselves. >> the european union is answering that call to make sure that ukrainians are well armed. for the first time in its history, the eu pledging weapons to a country at war. it will send arms including fighter jets to ukraine, and in a significant reversal of its defense policy, germany's
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chancellor increasing defense spending to more than 2% of the country's gdp. berlin will spend also $112 billion to reequipped its armed forces. in the united states, president biden will be on a call with leaders, and chuck schumer will push for a vote on a $6.4 billion emergency aid package to ukraine. according to reuters, that bill would augment security assistance and the 52 million in the humanitarian aid already committed to ukraine in the past year, and then the sovereign loan guarantee announced last week.
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>> let's keep on cracking up the sanctions against what is an evil regime. john mccain was right and he said he looked in vladimir putin's eyes and saw the kgb, and that's what we are seeing, a small evil-eyed man and trying to shape the image of russia -- >> i think vladimir putin thought that he was going to march into this country and that they were going to throw rose petals at him and instead it was molotov cocktails. when i met with president zelenskyy, his clear focus was on getting the weapons he needed. you have seen the world now
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coming to his aid with countries like germany and sweden today, denmark announcing that they would also send him weapons. >> for more now on the white house response, let's turn to jasmine wright standing by in washington. president biden set to hold that call with allies on their response including where more sanctions could come. what is on the table? >> yeah, that's right, michael, president biden will have a call in the situation room when he returns to washington, d.c., and they will try and ratchet up pressure on russia in the face of its aggression. also likely to be talked about is this new threat from vladimir putin as he put the order in to put his troops into an alert stance. i think one thing the white house is appearing to do is
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trying to de-escalate. instead of matching putin's rhetoric, he's saying this is part of putin's wider pattern of really unprovoked escalation as well as manufactured threats. the white house press secretary, jen psaki, she summed up the administration's position on sunday morning. take a listen. >> this is a pattern we have seen from president putin through the course of the conflict and that's manufacturing threats that don't exist, and the global and the american people should lack at it through that prism. >> psaki also said that, you know, the u.s. has the capability to defend itself, and it's also important to focus on putin's playbook here, and as this comes as putin is facing a united western allied front as
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they are on the same page about condemning russian's continued actions, and u.s. officials say these are happening proportionately to russia's continued aggression, and the white house is assessing in real time the tangible impact that it could have and they decline to say or update, rather, the current nuclear alert level that currently stands, and instead they say the u.s. is prepared to protect itself and this country should that be necessary. one thing i want to note, michael, a senior defense official said today any miss calculation here could make things much, much worse, and that's the kind of stance we are seeing from the white house but this is all a topic of discussion for president biden when he returns to washington and speaks with his allies.
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>> jasmine, appreciate the update. jasmine wright in washington. i want to bring in the director of international security studies at the royal united services institute. he joins me from london. it's good to see you again, sir. do you expect much from these talks in belarus? there isn't seem to be high hopes. >> to see a diplomatic breakthrough on the conflict, and ukraine is not ready to back down at this point as it feels it's holding the russians rather successfully, and i think it's encouraging that russia is open to talks and that suggests they have some concerns about how the conflict is going. >> far from backing down, of course, vladimir putin putting nuclear deterrent forces on alert. what do you think he's doing
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strategically with that, or is that another sign where he thinks things are not going well and feeling more isolated as ever? >> vladimir putin has used the threat of nuclear escalation in past interventions in 2014. he also raised this, and it's clear signaling to the west to stay out of the conflict, and it comes at a time when the west is stepping up and he has exceeded many people of expectations and in the last couple of days we have seen offers to provide weapons and nato responding to the eastern flank, so putin is escalating further around the conflict and trying to push back against the growing pressure coming from the international community. >> to the point of all the aspects you have been discussing, does that point to the sense that mr. putin and his military underestimated the
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ability of ukrainian forces who, of course, got plenty of motivation to fight, perhaps more motivation than a 19-year-old con script. >> i think there's no doubt the russians have underestimated the ukrainian resistance and thought they would rollover quickly, and at the same time we need to be cautious. russia can adapt. it's only deployed a fraction of its military force, and it has tried to avoid major urban conflict and high casualties, so we could begin to see a shift and that's what russia will be looking at now is how can it move more quickly to achieve its aims with the prospect there's military sources coming in from the eu and others and we could see a further escalation on the ground. >> yeah, yeah, i am talking about that last hour with max in
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moscow, too. when we look back at putin's past wars, i mean, we saw what he did in syria with overwhelming brutal force, almost raising parts of tkpwrauz knee. that's not what he has done so far. would he go that far in a eur european capital? >> well, the russians have this in their arsenal, and they have done it in syria and elsewhere. this is a different context because ukrainians feel so close to russians, many families are caught between the war, and even in russia -- it comes from ukraine and have ukrainian family members. they have been doing a kind in russian hearts and minds, and as
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the conflict becomes more desperate, and we're only in the first few days of this, and things could go on for a long time and become bitter and protracted, and putin begins to feel himself cornered, then there's a risk they may start to follow these kind of techniques. >> yeah. you know, when you look at how the world has coalesced in opposition to what putin is doing, how isolate is russia and putin right now? how might that affect his mood? even a close friend, president xi of china has not criticized the invasion but has not offered support either. what is the level of isolation and what could be the affect of that? >> there's a global diplomacy by the western community, initially india and china and others seem to be, if not exactly siding with russia, at least giving
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passage support and now there's a gap opening up even with the chinese who, i think, are uncomfortable about implications of a regional war in europe and they have economic interests in ukraine and in the eu and united states, so as this conflict continues to damage those kind of relations, china is getting nervous about this, even while its keeping a rhetorical support for russia in place and giving diplom diplom diplomatic substance to them. >> what would make the russian elite rebel, push back on what putin is doing and where this is all headed? >> this is really another key question. we saw when vladimir putin convened the security council, he has an iron grid on the security operators at the moment so it will be something quite
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major. there is a couple scenarios, a conflict that dragged on and pulls the russian military into the regular drum beat of casualties dripping back into the public consciousness. that's going to look like a serious failure, a miscalculation by a leader that led them into a war that nobody really wanted. another one, of course, is we will have to see how the sanctions play out. already there's a big impact on russia, and much of the elite around secputin and not just security officials, these costs will begin to mound, and many will start to question whether their leader sent them down the right path. >> always a sharp analysis. thank you and we will see you soon, i hope. >> thanks. we have got some news coming into us here at cnn, and since
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perhaps of the impact, external conditions for the russian economy have drastically changed and they add that the increase in the key rate will, quote, ensure a rise in deposit rates to levels needed to compensate for the increased depreciation and financial risks, and it shows the pressure that must be on the russian economy right now. we will have more on that later in the hour. meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis is becoming more dire every hour as ukrainians try to escape the fighting. coming up, what eu leaders are saying about possibly taking in millions of refugees. we'll be right back.
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my family, my mother and sister and cats, they are staying in western ukraine. the house is safe but not really because there were sirens last night. >> according to the united nations, at least 368,000 people have fled to ukraine -- to neighboring countries and there are predictions that millions more could flee the country in the days ahead. leader in the european union already considering what to do with refugees likely headed to eu states. >> i'm really impressed with the
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strong solidarity that eu citizens are showing towards the ukrainians coming. >> do you have any estimations of refugees that might be in the future? >> no, but i think we need to prepare for millions. >> people fleeing the violence in ukraine are threatened by more than bombs and bullets, the journey could be arduous and long and there are freezing temperatures that can be brutal. it was 17 degrees farenheit. the emotional toll equally hard. arwa damon at the border. >> little hands clutch bigger ones that would give anything just to keep them safe. sleepy, tired cold faces and tired arms. the hum from the number of people would expect to be here doesn't exist, it's as if the
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shock and disbelief brought with it an odd silence. it's mostly women and children here who have had to say good-bye to husbands, brothers, fathers, men age 18 to 60 are not permitted to leave. >> how were you able to say good-bye to your father? >> i think he was the most awful thing to say. >> she was crying. >> and then there's the shear hell of getting here. walking for hours, waiting in some cases for days out in the bitter cold, hungry, thirsty. we meet a woman and her family and they got asylum in ukraine from afghanistan, and his 7-year-old daughter barely made it here.
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>> it's very, very cold and my daughter become to shock, we calling and she's not answered, and finally we contacted the ambulance and the doctor comes and after that they gave us a chance. >> she clutches one of the donated similar animals replacing a similar one she left behind, but who will give her the rest of her life back? >> i don't know the future. >> again. >> again. >> at least this time unlike in years past europe is welcoming refugees. there's a massive inhumane backlog on the ukrainian side but once finally here in poland an army of volunteers. at the train station, 7-year-old max buries his face in his
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mother's legs, and he's not used to the crowds and it's scary and confusing. they waited for two whole days. your mother is not here? >> no. >> it's tearing her apart, but at least her husband, who is not ukrainian is out with her. for how do you say good-bye to the love of your life, the father of your children? this woman is not the only one in tears. others as well understandably not wanting to talk. we can't take it. it makes us cry too much, they say. arwa damon, cnn, poland. >> now around the world we are seeing powerful protests and displays of solidarity with the people of ukraine. rallies were held in cities across the u.s. over the weekend, including the nation's capital, demanding an end to the
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war. in berlin thousands gathered at the park on sunday to express their outrage over the russia invasion. and in tel aviv, israel, thousands of israelis including many of ukrainian descent taking to the streets to condemn russia's aggression. to madrid, wrapped in ukraine's color, yellow and blue, while speaking out over the invasion. we will take a break, and when we come back we will talk about how putin's invasion may not have been going as he planned it. and turkey moves to limit russian ships. that, too, when we come back.
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welcome back, everyone. i am michael holmes coming to you live from lviv, ukraine. this is a story we brought you moments ago. the russian central bank decided
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to raise its key interest rate from 9.5% a year to 20%, doubling. that comes as the west ramps up sanctions for russia. it goes on to say the increase of the key rate will ensure a rise in deposit rates to levels needed to compensate for the increased depreciation and inflation risks. meantime a ukrainian government official telling cnn intelligence indicates belarus is prepared to join the russian invasion, another significant development. that word coming ahead of expected talks between representatives of ukraine and russia at the belarus border. meanwhile we see continued fighting on the ground including
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kau kyiv. >> for the first time ever the european union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons to the country under attack. this is a watershed moment. >> let's turn to cnn contributor, jill dougherty, in moscow. it doesn't appear to be going as planned there? >> several events here in moscow that may indicate the kremlin is more and more concerned this military operation in ukraine is not going as they expected. number one, president putin ordering his military to put his nuclear deterrence forces on high alert, what he called
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special combat regime. the russian president saying he was doing it because of aggressive rhetoric coming from nato, and also the draconian measures leveled by the united states and europe. the white house did respond but in a much more measured fashion simply saying the kremlin is manufacturing threats that do not exist. there was no indication, at least at this point, that the united states is changing its nuclear posture. then another sign, the military, the daily briefing by the russian military admitting for the very first time that russian soldiers have been killed and wounded in battle in ukraine. there were no numbers given and the military spokesman saying it was fewer than the ukrainians had suffered but still significant that first example of their admission that people are dying in this military
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operation. then finally another statement, this time from a former russian president, saying there's no need, no particular need to have diplomatic relations anymore. he said we might as well padlock the embassies and we can look at each other through binoculars and gun sights. jill dougherty, moscow. >> earlier i spoke with the moscow bureau chief of the "financial times" about why putin with say russia's nuclear deterrence forces are on alert. >> i think it's desperation more than what he has up his sleeve. that's his response to the western response to his war on ukraine. you remember russia has the world's largest nuclear arsenal and it's a card to play.
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we have been here before. he threatened to use them against western countries who meddled against russia's war in ukraine and in 2015 he was talking about the annexation of crimea the year before, and he gave a similar order in case everything went wrong and the west in his mind tried to stop russia from seizing crimea from ukraine. this is very much in pattern with him making threats and the nuclear doctrine. >> president zelenskyy does not say i'm too confident, and if it achieves anything it's who is prepared to give what. what is your read on these talks? >> i think it's more the russians prepare to give anything, and ukraine does not believe russia is taking this seriously, and russia's demands
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are the surrender of its sovereignty, and the delegation is led by the former culture minister who is not really seen as any kind of figure with serious influence, and he's one of the major nationalists, a revisionists in russian government circles which includes the aggressive line on ukraine that russia has taken in recent years. i think it really is on russia at this point to show ukraine is prepared to negotiate in good faith, because putin said the other day we are open for dialogue but our core interests are not negotiable, and what that seems to mean is we are open for talks but you do what we want and we don't make any concessions, and that's not going to work. >> max was speaking to me
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earlier. turkey is acting to limit the passage of russian warships from the mediterranean to the black sea. we are joined from istanbul with more. what is turkey's position on the russian invasion of ukraine? what are they now doing about the situation? >> right now, michael, turkey's position has really tried to maintain this neutral position calling for dialogue and nego negotiations. they rejected russia's actions, and they are limiting the passage of russian navel vessels through two of the main waterways. this has been a demand -- a request from the ukrainian government to turkey over the
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past few days and weeks asking them to block the passage of russian vessels. this is not something turkey can just decide to do, and those waterways are governed by the 1936 treaty, and it's a technical treaty and we have been trying to read through it, and there are certain conditions and there are certain circumstances that would allow turkey to do that. one of those conditions is a war. up until yesterday, michael, the turkish government officials have been very cautious, very careful in the terminology they were using to describe what is going on in ukraine right now, an invasion, an incursion, an attack. we saw the clear language yesterday, and one official came out and described it as a war and the prime minister said the situation now after their own consultation, what is going on now is a war, and this paves the
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way for turkey to implement the montro treaty. we have been speaking to analysts about this, and basically it's not expected to change much on the ground. this is hugely symbolic for several reasons, but, of course, a very significant change in the turkish position. whatever russia needed to move, whatever navel vessels it wanted to move between the mediterranean to the black sea, it already has done so and they are already in position. and there's a key applause in the pact that says even though countries that are party to a war, even if their vessels are be being blocked, they can return to their bases, and turkey does not have the right to restrict civilian and commercial vessels.
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what this does, michaels change the turkish position. it's not by choice, but it has been forced to do so and it has tried to maintain the neutral position, and calling for dialogue and talks, and they have very close commercial and defense ties with both, ukraine and russia. what this is going to do, this will likely anger russia even more. you know, turkey does depend on russia for a lot of its natural gas imports, tourism and other trade relations. moscow has not been very happy with that lately and they have voiced this because turkey has been supplying the ukrainians with the drones which seem to be quite effective on the battlefield according to ukrainian officials. >> appreciate that update on those updates. we're going to take a quick
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break. when we come back, russia faces a growing list of severe sanctions from the west. a look at the impact they are having in a live report, after the break.
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the u.s. dollar. we are joined from dubai to talk more about this. good to see you. sanctions already having a big impact, and russia's ruble plummeting, and the rest of the we world is feeling pain, too. what is the latest on all of these big developments? >> absolutely. you are so right to say the rest of the world will feel the pain as well. anybody with exposure to russian assets will feel the pain, and norwegian had to start divesting its assets, and now the central bank increasing its interest rate from 9.5% to 20%.
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they say we are going to offer you a good interest rate, and already seeing a huge liquidity crunch in russia right now. these sanctions have triggered volatility on markets, and markets don't like uncertainty and that's what we are seeing. russia is very much part of the international markets. it's starting to become a lot more involved in many indexes, and many pension funds getting exposure to russian assets. a lot of people are feeling the pain as well. you have to remember, rosemary, the russian stock exchange suspended trading last week. it was meant to start trading about 45 minutes ago and it's still not back online. you have to remember, canada, the u.s. and eu have activated sanctions for russian banks
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using s.w.i.f.t., and that's the most vital way for banks to commute indicate with banks, and it means vladimir putin went into the war chest. the bigger outlier is china and they have import rules for russian grain, and could that be the lifeline for putin down the line? that's the big question people are asking. so that's one that many people are going to be watching. are we going to see alliances forming between emerging markets or between russia and china and what that will mean for the west and it's want to go push putin in a corner. >> many thanks.
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parts of the u.s. and canada are calling for russian-made liquor to be pulled off the shelves. it's their way of hitting back at russia for the aggression in ukraine. it's mostly a symbolic move, though, since almost all russian-branded alcohol is made in other countries, but states like ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire and utah are removing bottles already in stores, some even at the request of state governors. in canada, ontario's premiere is pulling all russian products from 700 government-funded liquor stores as a way of standing against tyranny and oppression. after the break, more on russia's aggression on ukraine and a look at the resilience of the ukrainian people defending their homes and country.
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hello, everyone. i'm michael holmes coming to you live from lviv. more on russian news. the central bank decided to raise its key interest rate from 9.5% a year to 20%, more than doubling. this comes as the west ramps up sanctions against russia. much more on this major development at the top of the hour right here on cnn. meanwhile, the ukrainian government official telling cnn that new intelligence indicates belarus may be prepared to join the russian invasion of this country.
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the intelligence coming as representatives from ukraine and russia are set to hold talks soon at the belarus border. since russia launched its attack, more than 350 civilians have been killed. hundreds more wounded, and hundreds of thousands have fled. but the ukrainian people continue to show amazing resilience in the face of such aggression. >> translator: the last night in ukraine was brutal. they're fighting against everyone. they're fighting against all living beings. >> we are ready for peace talks, but we are defending the country at the moment. >> they say they're not hitting civilian structures. look at this damage around here. >> reporter: putin's rockets may have shattered glass, but not dented the anger here. >> this is a time to be vocal and condemn the actions of president putin.
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>> usa supports ukraine. >> we've been seeing russians on the streets of moscow, st. petersburg and other cities. in fact, about 26, 27 cities so far who have been showing up and protesting. they are very quickly usually detained and arrested. >> they are not taking enough action to help ukraine, our neighbors and our friends. >> so far around 300,000 ukrainians have come to the e.u. member states and i'm really impressed at the strong solidarity that e.u. citizens are showing towards the ukrainians coming. >> do you have any estimation on how many refugees there might be in the future? >> no, but i think we need to prepare for millions. >> 36 to 48 hours walking and
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waiting out in the cold. the stories we're hearing about these overnights in these freezing temperatures with no food, no water, no bathroom, with little children, and then as they get closer to the actual border crossing from the sheer panic and the emotional agony of it all, it ends up largely being a free for all. >> now, organizations around the world are on the ground in ukraine and neighboring countries to help those in need with shelter, food, water, additional aid as well. for more on how you might be able to help, go to cnn.com/impact for information. all right. thanks for watching us this hour. i'm michael holmes live in lviv, ukraine. our breaking news coverage continues after the break. i'll see you then.
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