tv Anderson Cooper 360 CNN March 6, 2022 6:00pm-7:00pm PST
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good evening. there are many developments to report and we'll bring them to you. we'll begin what this war intin inentails for brave and scared ukrainians. v vladimir putin says russian forces are doing everything to protect lives and safety of them. the video you're about to see mortar fire targeting an evacuation route west of kyiv shows otherwise. we want to warn you it shows
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precisely what this war is and that's why it important you see it. what is happening in ukraine now shouldn't be sanitized but seen by the world in all it's horror. you'll hear obscenities on the video and see them, as well. >> [speaking foreign language]. >> [ bleep ]. >> sh shit! shit! sh shit. >> stay there. >> all right! >> no, no, no, no.
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>> [ bleep ]. >> medic! medic! medic! >> you saw a ukrainian soldier at the start of that was helping civilians evacuate. there are a hand full of soldiers that had been at that spot for the last 24 hours helping hundreds, if not thousands of civilians try to cross a bridge that the ukrainians themselves had destroyed to slow the russian as vance. the shell landed on a exposed section of street evacuee had to cross. you may not have noticed civilians on the background of the opening image before the rocket landed, or the mortar landed. the woman you saw in the video is photo journalists lindsey adario from "the new york times." she captured the image we're about to show you of the ones that didn't make it, the people across the street that the
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others went running to to try to help and again, a warning, this picture, it is hard to take. the victims in this case were a mother, her teenage son and young daughter along with a family friend. that is them lying dead on the ground. ukrainian medics trying to aid them. the mother and children were killed by the blast, the friend was badly wounded and that's the person there in the foreground on the ground they're trying to aid. lindsey will be joining us later on in the week as she did last week. it's hard to comprehend all that she has seen already or is yet to see because what you saw is no exception. it is the daily reality.
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>> [speaking foreign language]. >> those are some of the daily sights and sounds. that was the area attacked today. people were trying to escape. they have been pinned down for days. you can see the destruction in that community. cla rrissa ward was there yesterday as you may recall helping an elderly lady get a bag up an embankment. today that was the scene of the attack. so they're attacking people in the community, the residential community where they live and then, now, they are attacking them as they try to flee on the one spot they're able to flee and get across a bridge to get away to some semblance of safety. that's what is happening here. the u.n. accounted for more than
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360 civilians killed sod far and acknowledging the real number is likely quote considerably higher in their words. more than 1.5 million ukrainians fled the country. those who stayed at the same neighborhoods in some cases reduced to rubble. >> translator: they dug me up over there somewhere. two of my grandchildren are alive but my wife and daughter were killed. >> translator: my boyfriend died here. my aunt, my cousin, my grandmother, my sister's husband and a friend that stayed with us here while everything was happening. we've been living together since the start of the war. we had plans to leave but couldn't decide should we stay, should we go? a miracle we survived. >> a miracle she survived. there are wars a tragedy like theirs is the unfortunate exception. here as in aleppo and syria or
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chechnya appears to be the rule, perhaps the goal. thankfully, there are still places where at least for a moment there is room for grace to light the darkness. we came across this video on social media from a shelter in kyiv. it was there marta who posted it came across a little girl named amelia. amelia told mar t rrksmarta shef being a singer and marta said why not start now? you may recognize the song. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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[ applause ] >> a little girl in a shelter singing "let it go" from "frozen." hard to say anything except thank you, amelia, thank you for that grace. arlette saenz at the white house, alex marquardt just outside kyiv and in the black sea port city of odessa nick paton walsh and arlette saenz starts us off. >> reporter: tonight, russia is closing in on many major cities in ukraine as there are bombardments from a far are creating a dire situation for ukrainian citizens. >> translator: it seems it is not enough for the russian troops, not enough ruined destinys, crippled lives, they want to kill more. >> reporter: russian forces shelling areas to the west and northwest of kyiv over the
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weekend including at a check point for evacuating civilians in the suburb where the mayor says a family, two parents and two children were killed. four other people died in other strikes across the district the mayor said. just over 50 miles from kyiv nearly 20 residential buildings rocked by russian fire. it's not clear how many were killed or hurt. >> russian plagues continue to bomb ukrainian civilians including women and children. it's a disaster here. >> reporter: in the village, just south of the capital, russian air strikes killed a number of civilians including a disabled 12-year-old girl, her father said -- >> [speaking foreign language].
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>> reporter: in southern ukraine they are trying to flee the city cut off from power, water and heat. a second attempt for safe evacuation corridors breaking down. the red cross tweeting its attempt to start evacuating an estimated 200,000 people failed. ukraine accusing russia of using a humanitarian seize fire as a trick to kill more civilians. >> seize fire took place only for 30 minutes. after that, russian troops continue shelling of mariupol. we face war crimes hour by hour, second by second. >> reporter: russian president volodymyr zelenskyy warns russia plans to bomb odessa with zelenskyy's life increasingly under threat, western officials tell cnn talks are underway about how to support a ukrainian government in exile. but zelenskyy has rejected any thought of leaving kyiv and instead, focussing on boosting the resistance against russia.
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>> the ukrainians have plans in place that i'm not going to talk about or get into details on to make sure there is what we would call continuity government one way or another. >> reporter: ukraine is pleading for nato to impose a no fly zone which the alliance dismissed fearing it could lead to an escalation. >> any moverments in this direction will be participation in the military conflict. >> reporter: the u.s. and poland are in talks about possibly providing soviet era fighter jets from the eastern european country to neighboring ukraine. >> we want to see if we can be helpful in whatever they provide to ukrainens, something goes to them to make up for any gap in the security for poland. >> reporter: russia and ukraine will begin a third round of talks on monday but with the war machine being accused of vie l lating a seize fire, it seems
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bl bleak. >> i want to bring in our team tonight. nick, let's start with you. president zelenskyy is saying russia is preparing to bomb odessa. what is the situation there tonight? >> anderson, throughout the night so far, it's 4:00 a.m. here now, absolutely startling silence. not quite clear where president zelenskyy got this information from that he felt he needed to warn odessa of an imminent bombing but partly a cultural message aimed at the russian speaking population here and of course, russians, as well. he reminded them this is a popular holiday destination for people saying how this is a place where russians would only knew warmth and generosity and now artillery and bombs against odessa. this will be a war crime, this will be a historic crime and switched to speaking from ukrainian into russian and telling russians they had a sla. this city is bracing itself for an assault. we heard the occasional
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explosion in the skies around here over the past days but the fear here is this has to essentially at some point be in the kremlin's cross hairs. it is the third largest city, the vital m march maritime hub. we seen sandbags whisked into the city center sure rounding an opera house here. we haven't seen that since 1941 when the sevenoviet fought off nazis. quite extraordinarily how this city feels something awful may becoming over the horizon as it stands now, the most startling thing is how utterly silent this place is in the blackout and curfew imposed on it, anderson? >> i want to go to alex marquardt. you were in that area outside of kyiv earlier today that was hit by a strike. talk about what you saw. >> well, anderson, this is one of those examples of a civilian
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target that cannot be mistaken for anything but a civilian target. this is the small village about 15 miles south of kyiv. it's a village where people general ly commute into this city. there is no major military presence nearby that would justify any kind of russian strike against it if the russians continue to claim they're not going after civilians. we walked along a small country road and on both sides there were large piles of rubble after a russian air strike on friday and on the left hand side of the road where one of the bombs had been dropped was a large crater and there we met a man named igor and he was being helped by friends and neighbors to go through the rubble to try to salvage anything they could from his home. he lost five family members. his daughter who was 12 years
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old in a wheelchair at the time. his wife, his mother-in-law, two sons-in-law and a family friend of theirs who had been staying with them we believe who had left kyiv to escape the fighting that was encroaching on the city. igor was there looking for his documents. he found his passport and wallet while there. he also on a slightly happy note found two of his cats in the rubble who had been missing for the past few days. i asked him what was going through his head and he said, i have no thoughts. how can i have any thoughts right now? he just wants this to end he says. the burials for his family members will take place on monday and then after that, he said he doesn't know what he is going to do and all of this just speaks of course to the increasing number of examples of extraordinarily indiscriminate bombing, shelling, and fighting
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by the russian forces that has now resulted in according to the u.n. more than 360 civilian deaths, although, they themselves say that number is likely to be much, much higher, anderson? >> yeah, i mean, how long will it be before we see burials being attacked as we saw when they were burying peep at the s -- people at the soccer stadium? arlet, what is the situation on banning russian oil. there is the u.s. sanctions and there is so much more dependent on russian oil. >> anderson, initially, it was thought banning russian oil and gas would be off the table given that larger ripple effect it could have on the global energy supply but white house officials have indicated in recent days that it is an option that is in play. president biden over the weekend convened a call with cabinet members and advisors to talk about the options he could
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pursue and secretary of state antony blinken said today the u.s. is actively discussing a ban on russian oil and gas with allies. officials have said it is unlikely the u.s. would take any action without coordination or consultation with european allies given the fact that that area is much more reliant on russian energy than the united states. and then here at home, the white house is also reviewing how such a ban would impact gas prices for americans but there is certainly a growing bipartisan c chorus by lawmakers pushing the white house to go ahead and enact such a ban as the u.s. is looking for further ways to make putin pay for his attacks in ukraine. >> nick, what else are you able to see on the ground in recent hours, reports you've been getting from other places in terms of russian military positions in southern ukraine?
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>> reporter: yeah, we just came back from the days we spent in the adjacent port city along the black sea coast here. if russia wants to get to odessa, the prize in the south here, it has to either go around or control. that's proven difficult. video emerged today showed startling loses russia appeared to have sustained in the last 24 hours. this is an artillery position, a para troop unit on the outskirts of that town and it appears some have been utter he devastated by an attack here. we've seen around the area this persistent attempt by russian forces to get in. you'll see on our report at the bottom of the hour, the bids by armored vehicles to get into the town to be destroyed and devastated and an abandoned tank ourselves by the russians. the question you have to ask us
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what exactly is the russian strategy. we've seen for a week, two weekends in a row how they tried to bomb their way. they failed and lost it seems quite a lot of armor on their attempts to do that and the sign today from these abandoned vehicles that we saw does suggest a lack of russian moral and a desire to get out of the town. that's how tough it been for the russian military to get into cities in a meaningful fashion. i asked the governor yesterday who he needed. he said he needed weapons but it does seem the ones they're getting at the moment are actually those abandoned by russian troops. anderson? >> so just so i'm clear, the video we're seeing now, those are -- i see the zs written on the tanks, artillery pieces? >> that's correct. the damage is done to russian positions. we've seen quite a bit of that
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ar around. it appears to be consistent with the war they're trying to persist with getting in as for as they can to the city and being pushed out. it remarkable to see constant thrusts and how at this point they've come to nothing. anderson? >> yeah, nick paton walsh, alex marquette, thank you so much. congress man and air force veteran adam ken sinzinger and no fly zone over ukraine and arguments against it that it risks an all out war with russia. more breaking news, police in russia brutally beating and detaining anti war protesters. we'll talk with the former director what is driving putin now, whether he's driven beyond the last off ramp out of this war. go for 10 runs! run a marathon. instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big.
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officials, at least 600, these are some of them. cruise missiles hitting a town of central ukraine and can be fired from long distances away. this far into the war and russia doesn't have full air superiority over the battle field according to western officials. our next guest wants to take steps to make sure they never do. adam kinzinger joins us now. you've been calling for backing the idea of a no fly zone, which is something the ukrainian and president and ukrainian officials are really pushing for. i talked to the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine steven pfeiffer and he said the one major draw back of a no fly zone besides the obvious, it provokes
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potentially direct conflict, you know, of an american plane shooting down a russian plane. the am basketballbassador said have to bomb anti war weapons in belarus in addition to russian anti war assets in ukraine. talk to me about your support for the no fly zone and those organi arguments against it. >> look, anderson there is risk. i'm not going to deny that and we should obviously look at that with eyes wide open. you know, i think there is risk in an action, too, at the moment. what i fear in the long term is that if russia ultimately does take control of kyiv or all of ukraine or most of ukraine and we wake up every morning and continue to see thousands upon thousands of civilians killed and all these tragic stories, there will be a moment where we decide we have to and by that time, i think you're significantly in a much more
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risky spot because much more russian equipment will be moved in. i want to be clear. there is options. there is a no fly zone over ukraine and western ukraine and a humanitarian no fly zone. i think we've done a lot as the u.s. and allies so this isn't an attack on the response so far. i fear we're going to get to the moment where we're going to be compelled to and we should not fear russia in that context. >> you've reached two interesting ideas, which a lot of people haven't talked about. i want to ask about them further. one of them is basically kind of an air corridor, humanitarian air corridor that i guess would be protected by u.s. planes or nato planes or allied country planes or countries who are willing to if not nato per se and that would, what, allow the flight of supplies in? >> yeah, so if you think of it similar to a berlin airlift if
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you can protect a corridor, you can allow planes to fly in and drop supplies or armaments. if it's an agreed upon one, the russians violated every attempt to have humanitarian corridors so far, you would limit it to supplies and medical. we have to look at the different variations of what we can do on a no fly zone. the important thing is this. the old soviet union used to threaten the use of nuclear weapons all the time. if ukraine ends up defeating russia, which we pray for, if you think vladimir putin is crazy enough to use nukes against nato and the west for defending the skies of a sovereign country that invited them to do it, i think we have to be realistic that he may very well just use them on ukraine if he loses. he's a crazy man. we've done a great job standing up to him. there is a few more things i'd do. this is a moment he won't go quietly. >> you've also talked about the
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idea of -- which you mentioned previously about a no fly zone in the west of ukraine. i'm in lviv, which is much closer to the polish border. it's the transit point for hundreds of thousands of people who are fleeing, they come to the lviv train station trying to get further west of poland, romania and the like. there is even talk of if kyiv fell that perhaps there would be ukrainian government in charge in lviv and that would be the site, the seed of power. what would a no fly zone in western ukraine accomplish? >> yeah, it would be basically that. it would be protecting an area for -- if civilians need to flee, to flee, they can be protected. it alleviates pressure obviously on europe who will take -- you know, we've had a million ref pew -- refugees. it allows a place if god forbid
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kyiv does fall to have that government and exile you mentioned to continue to train, equip and support the ukrainian army as they try to take back the rest of ukraine. keep in mind, i think if we get to a point and this is where we have to remember as we make decisions today where we see kyiv fall or see significant part of ukraine fall or god forbid a defeat of the ukrainian army, taking back ukraine will be far bloodier than anything we've seen today. >> you sit on the committee for energy and momcommerce. we heard a number of people talking for a ban on russian oil and gas at the u.s., do you agree with that idea of a ban and do you think it something that actually might happen? >> i think it's certainly gaining steam. i think it should happen, absolutely. the american people have to be ready for even higher energy prices. i think there is an understanding that this is in essence a small price to pay particularly if you look what is
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going on in ukraine and put yourself in their shoes, that's a cost of defending freedom and we have over maybe as of today, you know, 700 million some barrels in the petroleum reserve. that's what this is for. for these moments. i think we have to do it. this is the one thing russia actually makes money on is their energy and so it may be painful but i think we absolutely have to ban the imports. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> yeah, be safe. >> our nick paton walsh documents the david versus goliath struggle and the mental and physical toll this war is taking on ukrainians thus far. only from discover.
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nick paton walsh with a battle where ukrainians were able to exact a tremendous cost on the russians. nick has details of the battle now. some of what you're seeing or about to see are graphic but it's necessary to be frank about what is happening here and witness the reality of what life is like in ukraine right now. >> reporter: putin needs it but having trouble getting it. drive to the last ukrainian position outside the port city and you can see the mess made of the kremlin's plans. even the z russian propeaganda says it from the denazi.
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keeps happening. then a warning. a helicopter is spotted and we have to leave. rushing in the weapons, this david has hit the russian goliath with again and again impose a cost on anyone it can . rocket hs have slammed into hom regularly. this woman thinks she has broken her back. the house collapsed on me she says and then they pulled me
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out. there are no other patients in this hospital, all the injured treated here died in their beds including one 53-year-old man brought in on sunday morning. across town, the rockets apparent cluster ammunitions that seem to fall just anywhere. another rocket landed up the street here. from cars to vegetable gardens. at the morgue, the toll is growing. at least 50 bodies they told us. 20 of them incinerated in a russian missile strike on the naval port they said. the bodies so often of the elderly who would have survived
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>> reporter: they show us tcorp of a russian soldier and ask us to film up close, which we don't do. loathing deep and lasting with each body in the ground. >> nick joins us now. seeing that medical worker break down, are you finding more and more just people having those obviously, you're seeing people having those moments all the time. ridiculous question. to see a medical worker who normally have seen bodies and has worked in a morgue, to see them break down like that is stunning. >> reporter: what i think him, he's been awake 13 days in a row
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bringing in bodies. what got to him was that his old friends were living in this parallel non-sense universe that russian state television pumps out, that this is a limited special operation designed to assist fellow russian speakers here, denazify ukraine and to have people who he knew who were his friends literally suggest that his family aren't hiding in a basement evading russian shelling now. i think that's what really broke him and he -- we heard him speaking to us for ten, 15 minutes in that kind of state. we see a fair bit of that around here. it is out weighed by the kind of resilience that we see pretty much everywhere we go and, you know, the conversations we have are with people that might be a local showing us around where the rockets landed and would be dealing with traffic problems, a matter of weeks ago. these are people i think that
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spent two weeks just getting up every day and getting on with the urgent task of defending the lives that they've had for years but there is also, too, a slight sense of how did this even happen? this has been for so much of ukraine a devastatingly peaceful country for so many decades, eight years of war in the east but it is startling for odessa and the quiet commercial port cities we've been going through to have ordinary governors hiding in a bunker and suddenly discovering themselves as a wartime leader. it's startling to see that quick adaptation of people here, too, but also the toll it's clearly taking. the people in that hospital you saw anderson all had head injuries. no other part of their body damaged at all. you have to wonder what on earth russia thinks it's doing firing off volumes of rockets into a clearly utterly nothing but civilian area.
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anderson? >> yeah. nick, it also shows just the connectedness of people here. he's from crimea. he has friends who are on the russian side who don't believe him, kharkiv is being bomb arde by artillery pieces in russia. the enter connectedness of this is -- we've seen families ripped apart but this is also countrymen and people who are the same who speak the same language ripped apart. nick paton walsh, appreciate the reporting. breaking news, video of police in russia beating and detaining anti war protesters. we'll talk about the difficulties facing vladimir putin. what he may do next to survive.
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video of a protest today outside a cathedral in russia. police appear to be trying to detain a woman on the ground. another protester tried to engage in the situation. he is shoved to the ground and bi punched by police. video taken later on the protests continued and shouted no to war. at least 4,000 people have been detained according to an independent human rights monitoring group and that number could be far higher. we have no way to know because the kremlin is criminalizing journalism about russia's invasion of ukraine. just seeing this video is in and
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of itself aextraordinary becaus what is happening inside russia could give some clue what putin's next moves might be because the world is left to wonder. the job to anticipate his moves is steve hall, former chief of russia operations for the cia joins us now. steve, i mean, valid how critic it to maintaining control of the ukrainian narrative but also power? >> anderson, to a certain extent it's important. we have seen over the years vladimir putin has absolutely no hesitation just as he has no hesitation frankly in indiscriminate violence in ukraine. he has no hesitation in using indiscriminate violence against his own citizens. we've seen the protest pop up frequently in moscow and st. petersburg, some of the major areas but he will not hesitate to repress. the people on the streets unless it turns into the tens of thousands over long periods of time, don't represent much of a
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threat to putin simply because again, he has no hesitation whatsoever about brutally repressing them, which we've seen many times in the past. >> putin declared this weekend sanctions are quote equivalent to a deck coloration, of war. do you think he wants a conflict with the west? >> that's an interesting question. some days i think he does. there are times in the past do there is speculation is he thinking he'll go after nato at some point and see if we're really serious about an attack against one is all if he attacks, say, i don't know, albania part of the nato alliance but would americans go to war in albania? is that what he's thinking? that said, the nato alliance in the united states has been very clear that we don't, you know, want to get into a nato on russia war over ukraine. and when we say that, then putin automatically knows he can say
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well then this is what i consider to be actions that will turn you guys into direct aggressors and we'll go after you, too. you know, it's really hard to tell but he's good at reading the alliance and adjusting his own red lines as appropriate. >> the "wall street journal" is reporting now that russia is recruiting syrians for urban combat in ukraine and some are already in russia preparing to join the invasion. you know, ukrainian officials have said there are chechens here, they often blame chechen for -- said there were chechens at the airport in some cases, some ukrainian officials were saying there were chechens involved in the attack on the nuclear facility. what does it tell you about russia's current capabilities or putin's strategy? >> yeah, the chechens are always interesting because they're always either saddled with something terrible or brought in as superhuman killers, which is how they've been portrayed in
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the ukraine crisis. you recall every time somebody is the subject of a political assassination inside russia, which happens quite frequently, it was supposedly chechens that did it. the syria thing is strange to me. it just doesn't make a lot of sense. what does it say about russian forces if what you have to do is go to someplace like syria and say hey, we need you guys to help out on this urban warfare? that's kind of a strange thing and certainly, if true, would not reflect very well at all on the russian military and i just got to say, anderson, after looking at the pictures you've seen and putting up of this indiscriminate shelling, these are war crimes and this is why it a mistake to call russians euro europeans. they don't share our values. i've had russian intelligence officers say we're not like you. what we're seeing right now on the ground where you are proves that point. >> yeah. certainly does. steve hall, appreciate it. up next, randi kaye gives a
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the refugee kris stem from russia's invasion of ukraine is reaching a new level. maldova's prime minister says every eighth child in the country is now a refugee. and more than 360 civilians have been killed in ukraine. new video shows people running after a russian military strike killed civilians on the western outskirts of kyiv. for those who make it across the border many organizations are going the extra mile to help refugees including miami-based organization called miaglobal empowerment mission. randy kaye has that story. >> you look behind me right now you can see all the people coming in, it doesn't stop flowing. it's nighttime here.
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it'll keep like this all night long. >> reporter: michael capony is watching the steady flow of refugees. the founder of the miami based global empowerment mission or gem has been been in mudeka, poland for more than a week now providing aid to refugees. >> they're here with us, and they basically walked over, took them three days to get here. >> reporter: the global empowerment team says they are the first friendly faces these ukrainian refugees see once they cross over. on site g.e.m. provides warm tea, snacks, medical supplies and other essentials. >> lots of hygiene kits, probably 20,000 sleeping bags. we filled the truck yesterday with undergarments for people because it's freezing, all kinds of warm things. >> reporter: helping the refugees takes a massive effort, and it all starts here at this
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warehouse in dural, florida. hundreds of volunteers working around the cluck packing up supplies sending everything from socks to hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, food, electrolyte powder, you name it, anything that helps. g.e.m. has committed to $15 politicalian in aid, a big part of their mission is also keeping refugees safe and if possible reunite them with family members outside ukraine. >> so this is nadia, right. she's basically in our car. we're basically getting her out of here. she just walked all this way from kyiv, this is her cat that she had with her. >> aw, you're beautiful. >> reporter: michael says nadia wug walked for four days carrying her cat. his team got her a hotel and were hoping to reunite her with family elsewhere. are they pleading for help? what is the message from these people you're seeing there? >> they are in absolute shock.
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i don't think they knew what to expect when they get to border, and it's -- people are in absolute tears as soon as they open up to you, everyone's crying. >> reporter: g.e.m. in is partnership with tv personality bethany frankel but also has help with people from the inside. they're helping identify people who need pal ports and travel agency partners are helping to quickly process airplane and train tickets. >> i've seen mothers literally pushing two strollers with a suitcase on her back and with absolutely no plans. >> reporter: mothers like this woman, christina, who global empowerment helped first to get a hotel. >> my daughter is asking 100 times a day for when we need to come back home, but we can't do this because there is a war. >> reporter: then safely evacuate to her husband's relatives in spain.
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>> now my daughter isn't safe as me and all my family. >> reporter: michael says they are processing about 1,000 families per day but are in a race against time as the conflict worsens and more ukrainians march across the border desperate for help. >> we walked eight hours from one of the city in ukraine to the border, and there's no bus, there's no cars. >> randy joins us now. what if the refugees -- what happens to the families if they don't have, you know, families in other countries or somewhere else to go? i know some families have been, a lot of families in poland and even germany have been offering up apartments or rooms in their homes. >> exactly, anderson. g.e.m. and its partners have been working to find refugees who don't have families elsewhere get them to safe houses and working with airbnb, working with some of the locals
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across the border, local families who might have an apartment or room for some of these families. they don't want them to end up these tent cities because it's very cold there, and they're very concerned about these mothers and young children being in these tent camps. they're right now hoping to relocate 10,000 families, but right now that under could increase as more and more people pour across that border. on the supply front they're worried about people in ukraine running out of food, medical supply. they're working with some of the local mayors trying to get food and medical supplies into ukraine as well, and of course this is a massive effort as i said and anyone can help. if you'd like to do so you can go to globalempowermentmission.org and try to do your part. >> randy, appreciate it. thanks so much. there's much more ahead as live coverage from ukraine continues. more civilians killed as russia shows no signs of ending its attacks. the latest ahead.
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