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down in front of that tank. regular citizens and civilians are taking up arms and ready to fight back. ukrainians in the basement of a bomb shelter in kyiv making molotov cocktails. cnn were rolling as russian tanks were moving towards the front lines. this crew also spotted a rocket launcher capable of launching multiple weapons, vacuum bombs as they were called many human rights organizations have condemned. it is a very violent weapon that the russians are employing right now. serious fighting are happening in the area of kharkiv and sporatic clashes can be seen in
appreciate it. vladimir putin. did he walk himself into a guerrilla war? it s one thing to take a city like kyiv. but it s an entirely different thing to occupy a group of people that have a strong sense of national identity who don t want to be occupied? you have to ask yourself, is this guy sane? is vladimir putin the same person we were dealing with just six months ago? what calculus was he going through in his head thinking a city of 3 million people with a strong national identity. educated group of people with a long history. armed now, 3 million people, many of them armed. did he think taking the city was going to be as easy as occupying it? did he walk himself into a guerrilla war here?
general clark told us before the break, it could get much darker in kyiv very quickly. as you saw earlier, our clarissa ward is there, she has spoken to the residents saying they are not giving up at all. they will fight. i m joined again by clarissa ward. talk about what you re seeing in terms of just the volunteers, ordinary ukrainians getting involved in the fight against the russian military. let s take a look at what clarissa saw. the people of kyiv are mobilizing, across the capital, volunteers are pouring in. building up the city s defenses with whatever they can. women bring in empty bottles to be made into molotov cocktails. the leaders of this militia say ukraine will win this war, emboldened by recent successful operations to repel russian forces. juan shows us his passport. i am originally russian, he says, but no russian boots will
thousands of people are leaving the city like kyiv and going west to poland or slovakia. i m reading that apparently thousands of people are already queuing up to go into poland which is to the west of ukraine. is the polish government, have they put out word hey, yeah,if you want to be a refugee here, the door is open? gillian: yeah, those countries are welcoming refugees from ukraine this hour. they are hoping to keep the situation under control so far there is has not really been a mass scale exodus out of ukraine which we would have expected to see. a lot of ukrainians are staying put. they are gearing up to fight this fight to take on putin. more importantly to defend their families and their homeland. i will say say also, steve, last night excuse me yesterday, tony blinken essentially said gloms with russia is officially dead. but it s interesting to see the white house really doubling down on these kind of meetings with the g-7 today as the very first