this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes coming to you live from lviv in ukraine. we are following breaking developments in russia's assault on this country and the brutal reality for so many civilians on the ground. now the video we're about to show you, it is hard to watch. it captures the moment a russian military strike hit a town just outside the capital, kyiv as ukrainians were attempting to flee the fighting.

now the mayor says a family was killed in this strike. eight people in all died during evacuations as the area was hit by intense shelling once again. now even as russia ramps up its attacks, negotiations between ukraine and russia, they do continue. a third round of talks aimed at ending hostilities set to take place in the coming hours. now since the start of this invasion, russia has fired 600 missiles, according to a senior u.s. defense official who says moscow now has 95% of its amassed combat power inside ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy says sanctions aren't enough to stop russia who he accuses of planning deliberate murder. >> translator: it seems it is not enough for the russian

troops, not enough ruined destinies, crippled lives. they want to kill more. for tomorrow russia is officially announced an attack on our territory, our defense facilities. most of them were built decades ago under the soviet government. they were built in cities, and now they are in the urban setting where thousands of people work and hundreds of thousands live nearby. this is murder, deliberate murder. >> u.s. officials say there are urgent discussions under way with allies as ukraine pleads for more help. secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. is in talks with poland next door about the possibility of sending fighter jets to ukraine. >> we are working with poland as we speak to see if we can back fill anything that they provide to the ukraines. we support them, providing miguels, sus, explains

ukrainians is fly. >> cnn's alex saenz with russia's campaign which is growing more aggressive and deadlier by the day. >> reporter: tonight russia is closing in on many major cities in ukraine as their bombardments from afar is creating a dire situation for ukraine citizens. >> it seems it is not enough for the russian troops. not enough ruined destinies, crippled lives. they want to kill more. >> reporter: russian forces shelling areas to the west and northwest of kyiv over the weekend, including at a checkpoint 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 and the town a town nearly 20

residential buildings rocked by russian fire. it's not clear how many were killed or hurt. >> russian planes continue to bomb ukrainian, kill yaukrainia civilians. it's a disaster. >> reporter: south of the capital, russian air strikes killed a number of civilians, including a disabled 12-year-old girl, her father said. in southern ukraine, civilians are desperately trying to flee the city of mariupol, cut off from water, power, and now heat in freezing temperatures. but a second attempt for safe evacuation corridors breaking down. the red cross tweeting its attempt to start evacuating an estimated 200,000 people has failed. ukraine accusing russia of using a humanitarian ceasefire as a trick to kill more civilians.

>> ceasefire took place only for 30 minutes. after that, russian troops army start continued shelling of mariupol. we're facing war crimes hour by hour, second by second. >> reporter: and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is now warning that russia plans to bomb the kyiv port city over of od odesa. with zelenskyy's life increasingly under threat, western officials tell cnn talks are under way about how to support a ukrainian government in exile. but zelenskyy has rejected any thought of leaving kyiv. instead focusing on boosting the resistance against russia. >> the ukrainians have plans in place that i'm not going to talk about or get into any details in to make sure there is what is called continuity of government, one way or another. >> reporter: ukraine is still pleading for nato to impose a sfz over the country, which the alliance has dismissed, clearing it could lead to an escalation.

>> any movements in this direction will be regarded by us as participation in the military conflict. >> reporter: but the u.s. and poland are in talks about possibly providing soviet-era fighter jets from to neighboring ukraine. >> we want to see if we can be helpful in making sure whatever they provide to the ukrainians, something goes to them to make up for any gap in the security for poland. >> reporter: russia and ukraine are set to begin a third round of talks on monday. but with the russian war machine already accuse of violating a ceasefire, the possibility of a peaceful solution seems bleak. article larlette saenz. the nuclear power plant seized by russian forces. mr. macron telling volodymyr zelenskyy he will continue to pay close attention to ukraine's needs. he also told mr. zelenskyy about his call earlier in the day with the russian president vladimir

putin. mr. macron said he had grave concern about nuclear safety during that call, and he reiterated the necessity of avoiding further attacks on ukraine's nuclear facilities. meanwhile, the israeli prime minister naftali bennett says his country will continue to make every effort to assist in negotiations between russia and ukraine. he is fresh off his trip of course from moscow, where he met with the russian president. heavy is also speaking to ukraine's president zelenskyy by phone. mr. bennett acknowledges the likelihood for diplomatic progress is slim. >> even if the chance is not great, as soon as there is even a small opening and we have access to all sides, i see this as our moral obligation to make every effort, as long as is burning, we must make an effort and perhaps it will be possible to act. >> in stark contrast to diplomatic efforts, the u.s.

says nearly all of russia's amassed forces that were outside ukraine's borders are now inside the country. however, their advance has been much slower than expected. oren liebermann with that. >> reporter: they now moved into ukraine some 95% of the amazed combat power. so not only the vast majority, but nearly all of it at this point. very little remains outside of ukraine. that is in belarus and eastern ukraine, and perhaps some in crimea as well. but really, what we heard from the senior defense official is over the last couple of days, the movement has been more or less incremental. yes, there is an increase in the number of missiles that have been fired that includes both ballistic and crews. that's more than 600 missiles fired by the russian. there is fighting around a number of different cities, kherson in particular where the u.s. still believe there's is fighting there even though the russians say they have taken control of the city. and the mayor there says he has ceded control to the russian military. the russians are trying to

circumstance al number of major population centers, including kharkiv in the northeast of ukraine, as well as kyiv itself, the capital of ukraine, but they have not succeeded in doing so, taking much longer than was originally anticipated. and of course the convoy we've been watching that spans some 40 miles of road just north of kyiv, that also hasn't really moved. now there was no update on exactly how far away it is from kyiv. but as of the last couple of days, it was about 25 kilometers. so 16 miles away from the city center of kyiv. notably, it has not moved in days now. >> all right, oren liebermann. joining me now to talk more about the latest developments is douglas london. he is the author of "the recruiter: spying and the lost art of american intelligence." he is also a retired cia operations officer and adjunct associate professor at georgetown university center for security studies. it's good the see you again, doug. by all accounts, tstill having

major issues with resupply. but they do have the numbers and they are moving on ukraine cities. what should ukrainians be doing now to prepare for encirclement or sieges or even entry? >> i think we already see reflections of the strategy here. it's at least twofold and probably more complex than that. they're striking in the rear. they're striking supply lines. they're striking static areas where the russians are stretched out a great deal. and they're also no doubt preparing for defenses. i would imagine they've had time to cache weapons and food. the advantage really is to the defender. some of these encirclements are not as easy as they seem. kyiv itself is a huge city. i think it's bigger than new york city. so stretching out all the way around thins out russian forces and leaves them vulnerable to attacks behind their lines, denying them a rear area. >> yeah. essentially you mentioned that about how they've been nimble, moving quickly, striking and leaving. they've done a fair bit of that,

taking out tanks, taking out artillery positions even. will they have worked out things like smuggling routes and their own resupply logistics, safe houses to counter russian occupation, whatever form that might take? >> i think they would have had to have done that well in advance. and some of these networks work, and some of them don't. so there has to be some redundancy. the russians seem well aware of that. their strategy seems to be to try to consolidate in the south so that they can move the west, try to interdict the supply lines. but ukrainians have the advantage there. it's their country. they've had plenty of time to set up support networks at safe houses, opportunities to move weapons, people, materials in and also out of the country over at least the last eight years since the russians invaded the first time. >> and given the russian military hasn't been able to do what it planned in terms of speed or success for that matter, what adjustments do you think putin is making?

>> we've already seen them much to the unfortunate dismay of civilian casualties. he's resorting to what we've seen him do in chechnya, what we've seen him do in syria, which is more typical russian doctrine which is to level the cities and follow in with their armor and their troops. but it's not going quite as well here. there are certainly problems with their coordination. their air force has been limited. we've seen them having to fly lower to do ground support, wir they're not good at, and also makes them vulnerable, particularly to the stinger at under 11,000 meters. it's not going as planned. and i think it's going to continue to struggle. but it's hard to say because they could always keep putting in fresh troops and fresh supplies. >> yeah. what sort of u.s. intel do youty the ukrainians are receiving? what sort of things do you think the u.s. is doing for them? >> well, the united states in public has been care to feel say they're not giving them

real-time actionable intelligence because they don't want it to be seen as provocation on the part of the russians. i would have to think there might be a different system on the intelligence side, assuming there is a finding and assuming the finding allows authorities that were actually abetting ukrainians in killing russians, then they would be getting more up-to-date information from all sources from what we're seeing from imagery on the ground. >> the longer this takes, i guess it inevitably is going to increase the potential for unrest at home. would you think so? >> i think that's why putin launched this invasion to begin with. i think he felt in his world he had limited time to go ahead and secure his buffer area and secure his client states on the outside. fearing a grassroots revolution. we've seen several mentions of the trauma i think is a fair phrase for it from the arab

spring when he saw gadhafi particularly killed in a drainpipe, killed and beaten. and i think he has been moving steadily since that time to align russian policy to take himself back to the days of empire and greater control. but it might be too late. and certainly his tactics are not working as he would have imagined simply based on the timetable of results. there is no way i can imagine he would have thought this was going to go past a week, let alone where at day 11 he hasn't secured any of the major cities, at least those in the north as well as odesa in the south. >> the longer those issues and resupply issues go on, the tougher it is to maintain force effectiveness in the field. let's get you back real soon. douglas london, really appreciate it. thank you so much. >> thanks, michael. all right. we'll take a break. when we come back here on cnn newsroom, we'll take you to the polish-ukraine border as thousands of refugees continue to cross the safety.

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welcome back. the u.n. says more than 1.5 million people have fled the

fighting in ukraine, and some 500,000 of them are children who have been forced to witness the horror of war as russia steps up its bombing campaign. but one hotel in poland is trying to ease their plight. the ossa hotel southwest of warsaw has been largely repurposed, housing hundreds of ukrainian refugees, and many of those are children from ukrainian orphanages close to the fighting. the hotel says they have taken in around 700 children from these orphanages, and they will be allowed to stay as long as they need the help. poland has, as we say taken in the most ukrainian refugees since the invasion again. cnn's arwa damen is at the border and takes a look at how volunteers are helping those fleeing the fighting. >> what we're starting to see is this sort of sad rhythm that starts to play out in reception centers like this one. the buses arrive. the people file off exhausted,

mostly women and children. but then there is this pretty incredible effort by an army of volunteers to provide them with food, water, diaper, toys for the children, clothing to replace everything that it is that they had to leave behind. but you also need to remember that just because someone has managed to reach safety, they are so far from being even remotely okay. those who have been able to flee, the vast majority of them are utterly wracked and consumed with guilt and fear. fear for those who were left behind. guilt because they actually had to make that impossible decision to leave. and for the vast majority, it really has boiled down to saving their children. but they have left their men behind, their husbands, their sons, their fathers. conversations here start to take

on a different and to a certain degree unique feel. because you have to also keep in mind that poland and ukraine, the populations are quite close. so conversations here are no longer about how hi, how are you today? it's hi, oh, my friend called me. he's decided to go to ukraine to fight. or hi, my relative inside ukraine, we haven't been able to get ahold of them. and so the way that the war is percolating over the borders, permeating over the borders, that is having a separate impact on the polish population here who is also now trying to figure out how to absorb these hundreds of thousands of ukrainians who are coming across the border. but it's also worth noting that when it specifically comes to

this conflict in ukraine, the reception that we're seeing for refugees from all of ukraine's neighboring countries, that is quite different than previous receptions that we've seen for refugees from other parts of the world. in the past. and i have to say, it's quite heartening to see that at least in this conflict, refugees are in fact welcome. >> arwa damen there. now the u.n. says this is the fastest growing refugee crisis in europe since world war ii. one of the country's bearing the brunt of it is neighboring moldova, which has taken in more than 230,000 ukraine refugees. that's nearly 10% of the country's entire population. moldova now scrambling to find shelter for all of these people. in an exclusive interview, moldova's prime minister spoke with cnn about how she is managing the crisis and shared her thoughts on russia's unprovoked attack. >> we strongly condemn this

military attack on ukraine, and we have called for peace ever since the beginning of the war. we are seeing an extraordinary humanitarian crisis. so already 230,000 people have crossed the moldovan border from ukraine. so every eighth child in ukraine is now refugee. 3/4 are staying with families. >> now moldova has opened a huge stadium to house some of those refugees. our ivan watson is there on the scene and filed this report. >> governments are still trying to wrap their heads around the size of the refugee exodus now coming out of ukraine. and this is just one example to help illustrate it. it is a stadium in the capital of moldova where you have

hundreds of people staying. the numbers can swell to more than 800. and each day hundreds of people then leave to move into europe and then there are hundreds of additional arrivals who come here. the people i have spoken to describe fleeing explosions, fleeing attacks on their cities and homes. and all of them are wrestling with this terrible question, how do i rebuild, how do i start a new life when my country has been invited by the russian military and nobody has any idea when this war will come to an end. the moldovan authorities are also overwhelmed. they say there have been more than 230,000 refugees who have come through their borders in just nine days. they're expecting many, many more. that is just a fraction of the 1.5 million people displaced by

this conflict. every person you talk to here has a story of loss and fear. and no answer for their children of what the next day may bring. ivan watson, anyone. still to come, torn between two ideologies. china remains an ally of russia for now. but how long can it support a country violating the values it holds most important? also shaken israeli citizens fleeing ukraine arrive at the tel aviv airport. we'll have details on that as well, when we come back. we discover exciting new tetechnologies. redefine who we are and hohow e want to lead our lives. basically, choose what we wantt our future to look like. so what's yours going to be?

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this is cnn breaking news. >> hello. i want to bring you up to date now on the latest developments in ukraine at the moment. and more and more civilians being killed as russia escalates its attacks here. people trying to flee the invasion struck at an evacuation crossing point. this is in a suburb of kyiv. the mayor says at least eight civilians were killed across the district. hopes for safe routes out of mariupol were dashed for a second day on sunday. the governor of the region said heavy russian shelling made evacuation too dangerous to attempt.

a u.s. defense official says russia has launched about 600 missiles so far in this conflict. nato and the u.s. continue to resist president zelenskyy's calls for a no-fly zone. but the u.s. working with poland on possibly providing mig fighter jets to ukraine. and russian crack down on anti-war protesters again. an independent monitoring group says more than 4600 protesters have been detained so far. now poland's port border guard says the country has taken in at least one million of ukraine's refugees since the war began. and with russian forces now in control of the ukrainian nuclear power facility say people in that area have packed into a train station to evacuate. cnn's sam kiley reports. >> reporter: a collective breath is held as a long-awaited evacuation train slows to a halt. the odds of getting out determined by access to a carriage door.

police struggle to contain the crowd. all are desperate to flee west. the mass evacuation from zaporizhzhia is part driven by the recent capture of a nuclear power station by russian invaders. here they're being begged by the control room over a public address system to stop their attack on the six reactor plant, the biggest in europe. they say you are endangering the security of the entire world. attention, stop shooting at a nuclear hazardous facility. attention, stop it. there is now a disregard as much for nuclear safety as civilian

lives in cities across the country being bombarded by russia. scenes like this have not been seen in europe since the second world war in the 20th century. the mass evacuation of civilians from a major city. it's been accelerated here because the people now believe based on the evidence that they've seen elsewhere in ukraine that it is civilians who are now going to be targeted in vladimir putin's invasion. >> translator: when russian troops came closer to zaporizhzhia, i decided it was better to get my family out before they entered the city itself. >> translator: we hope that we can make it on the train today because this morning people didn't let us in, even though we have a baby. >> reporter: this is a war that separates lovers and parts husbands from their wive, fathers from their families. ukrainian men here between 18 and 60 cannot leave. they're needed for fight.

you're staying here? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: so this is goodbye? temporarily. well, i hope in a week or two you can be back together again. more than a million ukrainians have fled their homeland so far. but more still are enduring these freezing conditions in the hope of a train to safety. but this man who is 80 is staying on. he is a former paratrooper in the soviet army. >> translator: i made molotov cocktails. i have great rifles. i'm a hunt were 40 years of experience. i have a medal left from the ussr. i'm staying. i hate them. all the invaders because of this. not to mention the fact that my grandson was bombed for a week in kharkiv.

>> reporter: those people who make it on board now face a 600-mile journey to lviv. for those who don't, time and luck may be running out. sam kiley, cnn, zaporizhzhia. the israeli government says it will help treat victims of russia's invasion. the country's foreign ministry says it will set up a field hospital in ukraine in the coming days. officials say more than 10,000 israeli citizens have now left ukraine, and israel is taking in jewish refugees. hadas gold spoke to some recent arrival s. >> reporter: the children peer out of the airplane's windows, entranced by the commotion down below. a red carpet arrival for these ukrainians, now refugees escaping war for a new life in israel.

this is one of three planes of ukrainians that arrived on friday to tel aviv's airport including one with some 90 orphans welcomed personally by the country's prime minister naftali bennett. like many mothers on this flight, lena, originally from odesa, came without her husband because of ukrainian's compulsory proscription for all men of fighting age. you hope that he'll be able to join you here? >> i really hope he can come to us. but he is helping right now. and i hope it will stop soon and we can be together. >> reporter: she and her two sons spent more than ten days making their way to poland before catching the flight out. >> i was planning about to come here. but when the war started, it was immediately decided. >> reporter: she is from kyiv. she thinks many more jews will soon decide like her to make their way to israel. how does it feel to come here,

having been through what you have been through for many days. >> i think i'm still shaken because i've seen war. and in front of our house, the russian plane was hit. so it was really dangerous and we had like a real panic. >> reporter: under israel's law of return, anyone without at minimum a jewish grandparent who are has converted to judaism is eligible for citizenship along with israeli israelis say they're preparing for a potential huge wave of immigrants with tens of thousands of jews in ukraine eligible for citizenship under the law of return. israeli authorities have set up special processing centers along the border to help spotty what can normalbly a lengthy process. >> literally tens of thousands. every day we've set up with our partner various hotline, and there are also certain border points, five or six border points neighboring with ukraine. and every day we are getting in the thousands of requests. and we're trying to take care of

all of them. >> reporter: after pushback from the ukrainians, israel is now considering allowing ukrainian refugees not eligible under the law of return to enter the country with a special work visa. israel's interior ministry says they're on track to receive 15,000 ukrainians by the end of the month. for these exhausted families, torn apart by war, traveling for days, the most important thing is that they made it out. >> a lot of emotions. i'm tired. i'm excited. and i feel that i'm in telephone safety place. and i feel a lot of support. >> reporter: hadas gold, cnn, tel aviv. >> now the ukraine city of lviv, where we are, is safe from russian attacks so far that could have caused change. when we come back, a look at the lives thrown into turmoil by this conflict and the efforts to keep people safe.

now the eu estimates more than 7 million ukrainians could be internally displaced by russia's invasion with the number of refugees fleeing the country potentially higher. many have come here to the city of lviv in western ukraine, which hasn't seen the intense fighting of other regions. but nothing lasts forever. and the people here are preparing for the worst.

in a government-run children's shelter in lviv in western ukraine, kids being kids. no parents looking after them, though. they're foster children from troubled homes, among several hundred evacuated here from places where russian shells are falling. they're safe for now, but already scarred by this war. >> translator: we could tell those kids were very worried when they had arrived. when they heard the first siren here during the day, some had a panic attack. they were looking at me with their scared eyes, shaking from anxiety. >> reporter: several humanitarian organizations are helping shelters like this karadzic of the children. and the many more who will come in the days and weeks ahead. the russian military not in this part of the country yet. >> translator: we are ready. we only hope the situation doesn't get worse here because then we will have to move

somewhere with all those kids too. and it is scary. they're just kids. >> reporter: now compared to other parts of the country, the city of lviv has remained free of the shelling and the missiles. but they're preparing for what could be to come. there is more security. there is more patrols and checkpoints. even some of this beautiful historic city's statues are being wrapped to protect them from war. john is a ukrainian-american living here working with an ngo, the ukrainian education platform, providing humanitarian assistance for people headed to the borders, but also helping those who have left their homes but don't want to leave their country, the internally displaced. >> i think the city is preparing for the worst. and are ready. we see thousands of people coming into today of families that are looking for a place to stay. and i think one of the

objectives for the families, for the children is to provide the necessary accommodations so they don't have to become refugees and go abroad. >> reporter: lviv, a city so far spared the physical impact of war, but ready for when that war might arrive. i'm michael holmes in lviv in western ukraine. paula newton will have more news after the break. i'll see you a little later. meet a future mom, a first-time mom and a seasoned pro.

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providing their products. it's simply against basic principles of morale to continue working in russia and making mind of that. this money is soaked with ukrainian blood. >> now china's foreign minister is calling for diplomacy and dialogue between russia and ukraine. but still, beijing has not denounced moscow's invasion. from the beginning, china has of course walked a fine line, saying it doesn't want to see all the violence in ukraine, while at the same time calling out the, quote, negative impact of nato's expansion towards russia. you can't overstate this. all eyes really are on china right now to see if in fact china will prove a financial lifeline for russia. we may be a ways away from figuring that out. but still, we do expect to hear from the foreign minister today. do we expect more of the same?

>> well, part of that is indeed a million dollar or a billion dollar question. we have seen some signals in the past few days that seem to be -- to give us some indications of how they're going to respond to the western sanctions when it comes to entities, chinese entities with a large western exposure seems to be many of them have signaled they will at least -- they will with the sanctions. there might be a work around being created as well. in terms of the specifics i think it still as you mention will have to wait and see. but, even though the chinese government still very much publicly insisting they're impartial in the conflict. it's increasingly clear to many which side they're on. you mention the phone call last sat saturday. he again said china respects all country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

that obviously is a long standing policy. that sounds hollow. given their new best friend russia is launching a brutal full scale war on the neighbor. and also suggested nato east were expansion is the real cause for the conflict. again that is a russian talking point. they have been parroting as well. more telling is how they have been presenting this war to domestic audience. very much a wub one sided picture. through state media reporting and the heavy censorship of social media. last friday for example the state television net work actually censored parts of the speech by the head of the international paralympics committee. the opening ceremony of the games. when he denounced war and called for peace. and then if you browse through the coverage it's very much a russian sources and highlighting russian success. and justification for going in. not to mention minimize civilian

casualties from the invasion. this may not be surprising for a lot of people. part of the so called no limits partnership is coordination. both governments messaging. that's something they have been touted for years. >> a lot there happening. in china. we continue to follow developments in the conflict. in beijing. thanks so much. now we have news just in, russia defense minister says forces will open humanitarian corridors from four ukrainian cities starting in about an hour from now. those cities are kyiv, kharkiv, and mar poll. this will be the third attempt. an expansion in terms of trying to open the humanitarian corridors to the four cities. this would be the third time for trying. and when civilians have tried to leave they have still been met

with violence. and artillery rounds in their direction. saying that when they tried this last time the buses supposed to evacuate were actually in the line of fire. stay with us we'll continue to have much more on the humanitarian corridors in the next few moments. meantime around the world many organizations are going the extra mile to try to help refugees from ukraine. cnn randi kaye talks to a u.s. operation providing aid in poland. >> look behind me right now you can see all the people coming in. it doesn't stop flowing. it's nighttime here. it will keep like this all night long. >> reporter: on ukraine border with poland, michael is watching the steady flow of refugees. the founder of the miami based global empowerment mission. has been in poland for a week now. providing aid to refugees. >> this is -- here with us.

they basically walked over to 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, gem provides warm tea. snacks and medical supplies. >> lots of hygiene kits. probably 20,000 sleeping bags. fill a truck yesterday with under garments. for people because it's freezing. all kinds of warm things. >> reporter: helping the refugees takes a massive effort. and it starts here at this warehouse in florida. hundreds of volunteers working around the clock. packing up supplies bound for ukraine. and the region. sending everything from socks to hand sanitizer. disinfectant wipes. food, anything that helps. >> gem committed to $15 million

in aid. a big part of their mission is also keep refugees safe. and if possible, reunite them with family members outside ukraine. >> this is nadia. she walked all this way. from kyiv. this is her cat. >> you're boufl. -- beautiful. >> she 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's the message in. >> they're in shock. they didn't know what to expect at the border. people are in absolute tears. as soon as they open up to you. everyone is crying. >> gem is in partnership with be strong. gem also has help from people on the inside. the organization says ukrainian church pastors are helping gem

identify people who need passports and travel agency partners helping to quickly process airplane and train tickets. >> i see mothers pushing two strollers. suitcase on their back. and with absolutely no plan. >> mothers like this woman. who global empowerment helped first to get a hotel. >> my daughter is asking 100 times when we need to come back home. we can't. there's war. >> safely evacuate to her husband's relatives in spain. >> now, my daughter is isn't safe. as me and my family. >> michael says they're processing 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. >> and our thanks for that report. stay with us we'll continue with our breaking news coverage live from ukraine. right after the break.