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zelenskyy releasing a message from there saying more and more occupiers fleeing back to russia, from you, for all that drive out the enemy with javelins and helicopters, everything that shoots. i wish you help, ukrainians, strong and kind but not to the enemy. what has become now daily post from the ukrainian president who is standing so firmly. thanks for joining us. "ac 360" starts right now. day eight of russia's war in ukraine, it's about to dawn on a country that has already been severely tested. the latest a few moments ago with two new large explosions heard in kyiv. so it begins again. tonight. yet no matter what russia drops on them or tries to take from them, ukrainians simply refuse to give an inch. that does not go -- that goes not just for men and women in it uniform, but also for ordinary people doing the extraordinary.
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streets, tried to hide as best they could. they showed up without weapons trying to stop the convoy of russian military from passing through. yes, despite the resistance, they could only slow the convoy. they didn't stop it. but they showed up and they will continue to in the future. about 140 miles west on the main highway the first major ukrainian city of the war fell tonight into russian hands. a live report ahead from what could be the russian's next big target. it will be joined by retired army four star general david petraeus. the u.n. general assembly voted to condemn the invasion. western sanctions tightened around russia's economy. russia will drop lower and credit rating downgraded and the flow of allied to military aid to ukrainian forces according to the u.s. keeps on flowing. cnn's chief international correspondent is in kyiv tonight. sarah is just across the border in eastern poland with a number of refugees going to many different countries, mainly
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women and children now approaching 900,000 according to the u.n. also cnn contributor joe dougherty is in moscow tonight. we're reporting on the terrible price the civilians are paying, ukrainians are paying. and nick take theon walsh is in odesa, the economically important city in the south. here in lviev, jim sciutto is joining me. he starts us off with this report. >> reporter: russia's invasion of ukraine is gradually gaining ground. the mayor of the city in had the south of the country with population of 300,000 has said that the city is now fallen under russian control. adding ukrainian forces are no longer present. the devastation inflicted across ukraine is only growing. russian strikes increasingly targeting civilians. president biden says it's
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deliberate. [ explosion ] russian forces moving on the capital kyiv from the north have stalled due to ukrainian resistance and their own shortages of food and fuel say u.s. officials. the russian military has increased its rocket and artillery attacks against the capital in other cities. russian forces hit a television tower in kyiv. a school in the city and buildings. >> i'm seeing dead children. seeing hospitals being bombed and i'm seeing churches being bombed. it's difficult. i'll do anything in my power to stop this aggression. >> reporter: the ukrainian military has not let up the ri resistance nor have civilians. here a man waved ukrainian flags in front of russian tanks and
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the west is keeping up sanctions pressure on moscow. >> we're coming for you. >> reporter: president budiden announced a new task force to investigate russian oligarchs and today the u.s. announced sanctions on the russian defense industry and export controls on belaruse as well. from where russia staged a large part of its forces for the envision. >> 22 russian defense related entities will be designated including companies that make combat aircraft, infantry fighting vehicles, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare systems. the very systems now being used to assault the ukrainian people. >> reporter: on the battlefield, the ukrainian military has now lost more tanks, aircraft, armored personnel carriers and artillery than russia has. however, by russia's own admission, their losses are mounting as well. the defense ministry claims nearly 500 russians killed. the ukraine says that number is
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actually nearly 6,000. >> translator: russian mothers are losing children in a completely foreign country. >> reporter: ukraine and russia are still engaged in some diplomacy. delegations heading to belaruse for a second round of talks. but both the u.s. and ukraine remain skeptical that russian president vladimir putin would negotiate for peace. ? we, of course, are open to pursuing any reasonable path. but it's very hard to see any path when the bombs are dropping, the planes are flying, the tanks are rolling. >> when he is saying i want peace, this means get here and prepare to war. >> we'll hear more in a moment. right now our correspondents in the field starting with kyiv. what's going on there? >> so that was just under an hour ago, i guess, anderson. two large explosions. my colleagues actually were in a different room could see the sky
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light up that bright orange glow as you can see in that social media video coming out. we don't know exactly what the targets were. of but they were loud booms. we think they may have been close to the river. we're still trying to work out exactly where the team is trying to go locate it. but again, difficult to get a sense so late in the night of what the targets were. now we do know about another explosion that happened a little earlier on in the evening. that happened near the train station here, the central train station where, of course, you've seen the terrible scenes of thousands of people every day clambering to evacuate from this capital city. it wasn't actually the train station that was hit though. it was a heating pipeline. and, again, there is a little bit of confusion as to whether that pipeline was targeted or whether it was part of a falling missile that ended up damaging the pipeline. but all of which contributing to this sort of, you know, sense of
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fear within the city and a sense of dread about what is going to happen next. there have been some hopes that maybe things would be a little bit quieter this evening because of the weather. i don't know if you can see behind me but it's thick, thick low lying fog, anderson. that is usually, you know, a positive sense for people on the ground because it provides cover, much harder to dacarry o bombing campaigns. we've heard several loud strikes throughout the evening. everybody waiting to see what tomorrow will bring. of course, that russian and ukrainian delegation are supposed to meet again in belaruse. but at this stage, anderson, it is hard to envision what the off ramp could be. how it would be possible to deescalate. what diplomatic agreement could possibly be agreed upon? we heard president zelenskyy tell my colleague matthew chance yesterday, you know, if you're serious about negotiations, then at least allow for a cease-fire
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to show that you're serious and certainly tonight here in kyiv and across the country, we're not seeing anything that would show that president putin is serious about any kind of peace talks or real meaningful negotiations, anderson. >> yeah. and just quickly, coyou said th heating pipeline was damaged or destroyed. is there still i mean heat in homes and buildings in kyiv? >> so far we just don't know, anderson. i mean we're very lucky we're in a hotel. there are all sorts of, i think they have their own equipment and backup generators and all sorts of things. we just don't know if kyiv residents are being affected by this. there had been a lot of speculation earlier on and indeed we had some warnings early are on that they were going to hit the electricity and heating and communications. so far that hasn't happened. it appears on a initial assessment that this wasn't necessarily a targeted attack on
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this heating pipeline. but it remains to be seen. we'll have to find out in the morning as to whether people are being deprived of heating as a result. >> yeah. i want to bring in jim sciutto with mech. we talked -- you talked based on your reporting that weapons were still getting through to kyiv. that was really confirmed today secretary of state anthony blinken and later on i'll speak to the state department spokesman that says not only u.s. weapons but european weapons are still getting through. >> and a remarkable number, really. so the first question was are they keeping supply line open? they are. at a pace they say is surprising. hundreds of stinger missiles, they're designed to take down russian aircraft. we've seen videos of that happening in the skies over ukraine in the last week. so they've had some success. the ukrainian military to have several hundred more of them in the midst of this dam pain is a significant development, i would
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say. because that's really been the best response to this both the stingers and anti-tank missiles as they're known. if those lines are still open, it means they're still getting the kind of help that president zelenskyy and others have been look fo looking for. now they're not able to get the other help they want. things like a no fly zone. but that's a significant, i would say, development on the battlefield. one they can get them in and get them in those numbers. >> which the danger is if kyiv does become encircled, then that is another issue about whether or not the weapons can get through. >> true. it does. the forces, you could get the forces conceivably outside the city as well. but, yes, when you get inside, the urban centers which has been from the u.s. intelligence assessments, the russian plan. forces in the city and encircle the cities and take over the cities. inside the city, it is a different conflict. that becomes urban warfare. human beings and civilians
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become targets themselves. >> i want to check in with our own correspondents. what is the situation at the border right now? i think you're on the polish side. how many people are still trying to cross? >> they are. so it's 2:00 a.m. on the polish side and 3:00 a.m. on the ukraine side. and what we have been seeing are large numbers of people. but in small groups. so you will will get small groups of people and in every single group, anderson, there are lots of small children. those small children, people are holding their hands. sometimes they're being carried. oftentimes they're just walking. this border crossing is one of the largest between poland and ukraine. and it is the one that people were allowed to walk across not just drive across or not just be bussed across. but poland has since decided that all of their border crossings will allow people to do whatever they need to do to get across. the if that means walking, then so be it. it is astonishing the number of
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people who have fled ukraine and into poland. you know, the eu commissioners that we spoke to here on the border today said that about three quarters of the now almost 900,000 people that have left ukraine are ending up here in poland. and what is poland doing about that? it is incredible the humanitarian care that they are giving to people. there is medical help. there are people that are being told that they have a place to stay in regular citizens' homes as well as hot food, clothing, and transportation. that is under way for several d now. there is a lot of consternations about people in other nations, particularly black and brown people, they have now, the borders have been open more to them. they have now cleared those lines of people. and they are now finding their way back to their respective
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countries. >> he was saying the people he talked to on the polish said said he actually used the term fake news that there was discrimination against people of color. and you said actually we have -- i talked to people specifically face-to-face their experiences repeatedly. you had receipts. then you said that would be reprehensible. >> and that is true. we know the eu has come out and admitted that, yes this was a problem. but in the past, like, 12 to 24 hours, that problem has been mostly resolved. i do want to mention that in seeing these families, it is mostly women and children that we are seeing. many young children. we have, by the way, seen a few people who are going into ukraine who are going to fight for their country. who are living in poland and
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residents of poland. we watched people walk into the border and ask them what they're doing. they said we cannot sit by anymore. we're going to fight. but we also talked to those who have left everything behind, mostly mothers and children who have left their husbands behind, sometimes their parents behind. here is just one woman's reaction to what all this is like for someone who has never experienced being a refugee. >> ukrainians, we're very friendly. we don't want to have war. we don't want to have war with somebody. we want just peace. we want it. we want to have children to go to school, to go to work, you know? we ask russian president, we ask all russians to please stop the war. the civilians so dangerous. >> that was olga and anderson,
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she is trying to shield her 9-year-old daughter. she says i don't want her to see. this she can't. that's -- we're hearing that over and over and over from mothers trying to save their children. >> yeah. it's important to hear as well. jill, sanctions continue to choke the economy in russia. and will increase as it goes forward. how are people there reacting? >> you know, it depends. i think at this point people were a little bit worried at the beginning whether they actually be able to have cash. so that's why we saw the lines at the atm machines. but i think there is a sense that, you know, what is coming? the sanctions are so massive. and people are wondering, you know, a lot of them obviously they can't travel. credit cards, sometimes don't work. and there is a real sense foreboding among a lot of people even though right now it feels relatively controlled.
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but nobody knows where this is all going. a lot of companies have pulled out. you know, ford is not producing any more. st so there will be an effect. and the protests are continuing. every single day, in fact, today there were some 763 people arrested according to the -- across russia according to the organization that tracks this and the total numbers since this began which is roughly a week is 7,608 as of last, you know, we looked at it. and the reason that's they're continuing to protest, we've been talking to some young people particularly about this. and there seems to be a lot of them say they just don't feel that they have any other way to stop this. so they go on to the streets knowing that there is probably not going to make much difference in terms of the kremlin. but they continue to do it. and then also concerningly, a sense of shame.
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a lot of them said they're very ashamed of what russia is doing. they don't feel that they personally are responsible. but they feel shame. and then, you know, just today i was talking to one woman who said, you know, and she's very young, she said we talk with my friends about before the war. and that was only like a week ago. >> yeah. they said they think it won't make a difference. the bravery to go out in the streets in russia given what the track record of what happens to protesters is there is extraordinary and it may have an impact on their future, their future ability to get a job or get into a school. jill dougherty, appreciate the reporting, jim sciutto as well. coming up next, a live report from the strategic port city of odesa and david petraeus' insights on what russia got itself into and where it may lead in the coming days and beyond. later, we'll check in with a
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as we reported, the strategically important southern city has now fallen. it lies in the south of odesa, ukraine's third largest city and a coveted prize for moscow. nick, talk more about what we know is happening now in kherson. >> yeah. it's clear after seeing days of russian troops on the streets there looting, leading away locals at gun point and seeing shells slamming into apartment building, a sea change happened in now who controls the city. according to the mayor in a
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facebook post, laying out the conditions he basically agreed to what he referred to as armed men who had been to his office earlier this day. sounding a lot like marshal law. it looked like occupation. people only go out during day time and pedestrians are supposed to walk in groups of one and two. and immediately respect the orders of the other armed men in the town. also, they say that ukrainian arm forces have left. so while that facebook statement doesn't actually say russia by name, it is clear that he is referring to the presence of russian military there calling the shots essentially. he does say that ukraine's flag still flies over the administration building but you have to essentially wonder how far of that is being entirely symbolic given the volume of russian troops we've seen inside that city at this point. it is important, anderson, for two reasons partly because this was a strategic place for ukraine to hold on. to the route up from russian held crimea to the rest of the
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country. but also too, it gives us an idea as to exactly how russia is going to function in these big population centers. it's overwhelmingly large city, kherson by itself. the locals were hoping the fighting would stay on the outskirts of that bridge and not see russian troops in the streets. they've come in, they looted, and now they appear to have simply changed how the city administration is going to function. anderson? >> nick peyton walsh, continue to be careful. thank you from odesa. i want to get perspective on what is going on in the south also in kyiv. and the parts that russia has been hitting thus far. former cia director david petraeus joins us. general, appreciate you being with us. i wonder when you look at first of all kyiv, the russian efforts there at this point, what do you see the next step being for vladimir putin in terms of the deployment of forces or of
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power? >> well, what they're trying to do, anderson, is encircle the city. they have a pretty big traffic jam north of the city which is reflective of the general level of frankly degree of ineptitude they demonstrated so far. there is a call coming from the east toward the city, presumably they want to get around to the west with the forces from the north and try to cut off the ability of those in kyiv to still receive weapons and so forth. but as you heard the secretary of state confirm, they're still being provided there. the ukrainian defenders are absolutely resolute. they are in urban settings. it's very tough for those who are on the attack to penetrate defenders have an enormous advantage in that usual rule of thumb is that you have to have five for every one defender. if you're an tacker. so, of course, what russia will do as it has already begun to do
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is get frustrated and use inaccurate systems such as artillery, rockets and so forth and then perhaps some precision weapons as well. although as we've seen in a number of the precision munition that's have been directed at buildings that only have innocent civilians, regular government buildings, military location ands so forth. eventually i think we'll see what we've seen russia do in other locations where they were unable to use ground and air forces effectively together which is again also what we've seen here. and they will pummel the city and destroy section by section. they will starve the people out, depopulate it as they did, of course in, olepo. but there is a difference here. and that is that you and a bunch of other journalists are watching every single will action that they take filming every strike. and that is going to stoke more and more and more outrage around
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the world. and i think we will see continued actions taken to the point that the russian economy could seize up. you know, president biden said give it a month. the i think we're seeing actions already. russia can't even open the stock exchange. the ruble has plummeted. the central bank reserves are which russia is so proud, war chest of $600 billion. foreign currency and foreign reserves. well, they're in foreign banks and they've been seizeded and held. the same with the oligarchs' town houses in it places like k kensington in london. i would love to see the cameras in there. at a certain point in time, russian people hope that russian people have done in the past and that is rise up. as you know, as a student of history, anderson, russia is either expanding or it's collapsing. i hope that we're going to see
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some of the latter in this case. russia has overreached kherson. what they doll is an extraordinary amount of destruction and damage. forcing refugees to flee. and it's going to be a horrific scene. it will be barbaric. clearly, there is war crimes that have been committed. i want to drive down a little more about what the campaign within a major city like kyiv might actually look like. you were taking you need five, you know, armed soldiers to, one, defend or attack, i mean if there is, you know, i don't know, kyiv is a city of 2.5 million people.
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if there is 500,000 men and women left in the city willing to fight, you're still talking about -- that's, what, 2.5 mill dwron amilli he on attackers and russia doesn't have that. >> from the beginning i said repeatedly especially urban combat is incredibly soldier intensive. they just do not have the numbers. can you do the math. by the way, this won't be guerrilla. this is organized defense. this is fortifications, obstacles. there will be mine that's will be used. and so forng. this is going to be brutal urban combat for those that are trying to establish a foothold and then go into the city. by the way, you can't just take one block and clear it. and then move on to the other. you have to leave someone behind. because otherwise the enemy will will fill in behind. we saw this repeatedly in iraq. when we did the clearing of ramadi, a town of several
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hundred thousand people, we had to leave someone in every building, an element behind, so that enemy could not come in behind this. it is very, very soldier intensive. again, they do not have the numbers. that is why they'll resort to what they do have. and tragically, we're just going to see them level parts of the city one after the other until they eventually try to depopulate it. but even then, there are bunkers and basements, there are subways. they're not going to take this city in control that i don't think. they will unfortunately tragically destroy it. >> general david petraeus, i would love to talk to you again and have more time. there is a lot to discuss. i really appreciate your experience. thank you. ahead, a look at the destruction going on in kyiv. we'll take a look and we'll also talk to a resident who was with us on monday. she's a mom of three. she is taking shelter with
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the ukrainian capital. there was a stalled military convoy outside of the city may lead to heavy civilian casualties. st two days ago you may remember if you watch i spoke to a woman hiding in a shelter in kyiv with her three children. it's not a bomb shelter, it's a basement. it even has a window which is not something you want in a bomb shelter. of the youngest child she has is a few months old. her husband is out fighting. she's been in that shelter for six days as the fighting intensifies number clear end in sight. i spoke to her earlier while she was in the shelter. how you are doing? how is your family doing? >> surprisingly fine. what we have taken into account is circumstances where they're fine. >> what are your circumstances now? how was your husband? my husband is somewhere at his work.
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i mean, as the territory defense in the territorial defense unit. i talk to him very briefly today. he said that they are very busy. sow cannot talk. but he's fine. i shouldn't worry. if i need anything. i said i'm fine. he said he is fine too. so i'm just not bothering him. but it's enough for me to know he is okay. i wanted to say that my two children for the first time came back home for about an hour to take a shower, to give food and change water for our cats that stay at home. and i thought maybe children will play a little bit over there. but they were afraid to stay at home. they were asking are bombs flying? there is this siren on. took more foods, changed clothes and ran back to the shelter. and they feel much p better here because they think they're more
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protect the. we took some toys. right now they are drawing over there. they're on the floor. so now they have a bedroom, my working cabinet, everything. yeah, so we -- today is quite a flight day. the supermarkets were open. the pharmacy was open. there was access to the water. the shops were filled with the new products. the lines are very long. but if somebody needed something, you could buy it. and there are many volunteers here who are, like, if you need something, you can say and some people will try to help you. but everybody, so far, like, we do not have any deficit of water or food. there is no instructions. and now we have the food. so like we are not yet personally traumatized by the war. so we saw it all on tv so far. >> it's very hard for reporters
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to exactly know where russian forces are and i imagine for you and everybody else that, must be one of the difficult things is not knowing exactly where the invading army is. and where they may strike next. >> well, yes. yes. there is, you know, the feeling, the constant fear. like it is somewhere in my stomach somewhere, you know, in my heart. and it's tough. yeah. and people are tired to be afraid. like every day, every night. you expect it to begin here. and it didn't begin yet. good morning. thank you. but, yeah. . constant fear. we are living in constant fear personally and the news from relatives from other cities, of course, very sad.
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we have many people that were killed in this war. >> i heard you say on video you made that at one point you -- when this started you believe that the world would intervene. that when people saw what was going on, that the cavalry would come and help. you are -- do you still believe -- do you still hope that may happen? >> well, see maybe i wish too much hollywood movies. i thought nato and america, they are so powerful and cool that if they see such disgusting act, you know, international crimes that they will intervene immediately and react immediately. but that looks like they do not. and maybe i'm wrong. yeah. the maybe this is hollywood inis
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fl influence or something. maybe we receive a lot of supplies and weapons and everything. and it helps, like really a lot. but it looks like, you know, this is our problem. mainly our problem. now we are understand that we're face-to-face. with putin and his troops. so we have just face it. and we're ready for this. but i still -- i still hope -- i was hoping more for of this war and now i'm hoping more for russian people. that they will maybe wake up and arrange some protest against this evil that is happening. yeah, we should challenge ourselves first. >> when you go to bed at night, are you able to sleep? i would -- think for many people the fear would keep you awake.
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>> well, the first four nights i think i was like sleeping 13 minutes an hour or one hour per night. but then the night and i was so exhausted by the sleepless nights, you know, i just faded away. yes, and i slept all the night. and then the morning i was full of energy. right now you kind of get used to the fact that there is the fear. and you see, what i see from the other people, they get used to this situation. they understand that there is nothing, like, if you cannot control the situation, you have to just accept it. and people feel less fear than in the first days of invasion. moreover, our army is doing very well, i think. they already, you know, didn't let putin take over kyiv in a couple of days.
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so the spirit of people is not going down. it's going more up and up because we see in the news all this brave cases when people just stop with a tractor which they are own hands. and there were thousands of people that just stand in the road and meet the russian troops. and there is a sense of humor to help ukrainians to be strong. so the spirit is up. and today i saw that almost 90% of the ukrainians are sure that they will win. putin thought if he would bomb the second biggest town of ukraine like destroy it completely and the other towns he would damage a lot. maybe people would be afraid and surrender. but what he did, people feel like now we have nothing to
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lose. so they become even more sure of themselves. and more confident. and fight even better than before. so we have a very strong spirit for now. >> i saw that spirit today very much. we went around to a number of different locations where people were making molotov cocktails. they were sowing together camouflage for -- to put over artillery pieces to protect weaponry. they were doing whatever they can. i don't think i've ever seen a place that is so united together to fight. >> exactly. exactly. what happens is just really the ukrainians are united like never before. we have companies that give for free medications, even like salaries in advance. you don't have to pay off
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credit. so all the business of the people, you know, we have the army of 44 million people now of ukraine. this is the whole population of ukraine. i was very -- it was very emotional when i found out that 80,000 of ukrainians came back from abroad to ukraine to fight with putin. to support ukraine, to produce t protect ukraine. this is very touching. we're united like never before. even in 2014 when putin came here, people had -- there were people who simympathized with putin. now none will give him bread or salt at all. and they say they come to save ukrainians. and, yeah, they will. >> and that's what it feels like
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all 44 million people in ukraine young and old, men and women, everybody is united. everybody is a soldier? >> yes. this is what is happening. yes. they are a soldier, i think. the fact that babies kyiv with your -- you know, everybody here in the shelter one by one is nursing here. and she helps us to, you know, to feel less stressed because she's so innocent. and it's something about life and something kind against evil and aggression and the war. yeah, so each ukrainian now is fighting against putin and for our very existence. because looks like now it's very serious. yes. if we fail, we stop existing as
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a nation. so for us, it's something very, very serious. our freedom right now is very important. now we've been in the soviet union. there was nothing good for us ukrainians in the soviet union. and we do not want to come back. we want to just live here on our own land, yes, to make our own mistakes. to have our own maybe corrupted government but the one that we elect. maybe our president is a comedian and maybe he -- but it's our president. so we have the right to choose a president who is a comedian. he is doing great work right now. so people support zelenskyy like never before, even those people who were not voting for him. so it's our country and we stand in our own land. >> your president may have been a comedian, but i don't think anybody is laughing at him now. >> at all. at all. yeah. he's doing a great job, really.
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>> i met a man today with whose child was 10 months old. he said that the first words that the child will learn will be glory to ukraine. >> true. true. yes. here i am. glory to the heroes. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> that is a greeting soldiers give to each other, glory to ukraine and the response is glory to the heroes. that's the picture of the father with his little child who he says the first words of this little boy will be glory to ukraine. coming up, as i mentioned, i got first-hand look at how the people here in lviev are getting ready as the battlefront moves west. they're making some weapons by
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far, is a city relying on ingenuity and prepare to unleash counterstrikes. >> in an old factory in lviv, they prepare for war as best they can. these are most effective, i'm told, when the ground is soft and they can get dug down into the earth or perhaps even on a cobblestone street. they can dig down to clean the cobblestones. but with hedgehogs this side, it's unlikely to be able to stop a russian tank. but perhaps a vehicle or a humvee. lviv has so far been mostly unscathed. at night, air raid sirens sound, but the fight is still further east. each night, each day, the determination here grows. at a brewery in lviv, they now make molotov cocktails. this man says they've made 2,000 at least using empty bottles of
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a popular antiputin beer. >> the beer is called putin -- >> yeah. >> how long have you been making putin -- beer? >> we started to brew this beer in 2015 because in 2014 the russians came to crimea and got it, so this label has a history already. >> wow. >> yeah, what you see -- >> that's quite the -- that's quite the image. >> reporter: it's a primitive weapon, but potentially deadly. those molotov cocktails also have additional materials in them to ensure the fire will stick to whatever it's thrown at. >> petrol alone isn't good enough. you want something you can make it sticky so that it sticks on a person. >> yeah, it sticks to the surface. >> when we got here to the factory, there was a group of maybe 70 or so men who were all standing around a car. and there was somebody in a uniform, ukrainian in uniform,
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who was explaining to them how to throw molotov cocktail inside a vehicle to the best effect. there's a lot of people here who are trying to get as much training as they can in order to be able to face russian forces if and when they come. >> reporter: in another neighborhood, residents gather supplies and send them wherever they're needed. spike strips to puncture tires, flak jackets with metal plates inside. >> translator: we're continually sending them to our guys there throughout the day. >> here you can see camouflage nets they use as cover so the enemy doesn't know where tanks and armored personnel carriers are located. in other rooms we had medicine and grocery. a week ago, he was a construction worker. but then putin invaded and everything changed. >> you have a message to vladimir putin. what is it? what would i tell him, he says? i would tell him he can go
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[ bleep ] himself. 14-year-old andry's school is closed. he says volunteering makes him less nervous about the war? >> are you scared? >> first time, first day, i was. but now i understand we need help and support our soldiers and people. and the then we will live in peace. >> reporter: before leaving, we meet pavlo and his son, just two months old, wrapped in the ukrainian flag. he told me, i just want to say, my son archer will learn to say "glory to ukraine" faster than he learns to say mom or dad. those will be his first words? >> yes. >> glory to ukraine. those will be the child's first words. much more to come live from ukraine, new explosions seen tonight in kyiv, amid fears
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