vladimir putin. at the un today world leaders slamming him over his invasion of ukraine while east lane to his to reclaim his battered were machine and personally giving directions to generals in the field. that is he calls up 300,000 citizens and reservists to fight in ukraine. the mobilization not seen since world war ii. and meanwhile, russians who want to avoid the mobilization are crowding the borders while the families left behind say goodbye to loved ones they know that they may never see again. but is it desperate putin? and a more dangerous putin? and how much support does he still have from the russian people? we ve got more to come on this later on in the broadcast. a lot to cover in a couple of hours that we have with you this evening. i want to begin with cnn seeing senior legal analyst atul laura coats, and bradly moss. laura, let s talk about the special master, the special picked special master from team trump, overseeing this mar-a-lago docks, ordering trump seeming to
since matthew chance has our report on the reaction from the russian people. suddenly, an exodus across russia s borders. social media now filled with images like these near the country s southern frontiers of vehicles backed up, out of sight. everyone is on the run from russia, this man says. endless cars. it s mind-boggling. in the west, toward finland, border officials also reporting significantly higher traffic. nearly 5000 crossing in a single day were expected by the weekend, as russians made for the exits. across russia, there is a growing sense of alarm, even anger at the call up of reservists to fight in ukraine. more than 1300 protesters have
all spent, and how you managing that? it s hard to tell how much money we have. we have to get the taxi and you have to get tickets both ways and it is really hard. and then ended up here maybe 150,000. alexander wants to find a home for his family. he wants to get a job. he is struggling to find work here in the united states. [speaking non-english] [interpreter] it would be easier if they simplified the job permit process. it is hard. we ve been here with five months with no income. [end of translation] we are just trying to help them and save as many people as we can, and we already brought 15 families here. five more are ready to come to united states. they approved. and more people are waiting over there in the country, in ukraine. it is very hard to choose. it s a choice no one wants to make. but the chosen, in the face of such great loss, are grateful
refugees it took 19 hours, and it was a grueling experience. in the context you think, wow, suffering that they endured and what they went through, the trauma, is really unimaginable. they first lived in alex s one bedroom apartment in brooklyn. one bedroom, one bathroom. in that space he and his wife have hosted as many as 12 refugees at once. [interpreter] of course we have our challenges. but at the end of it all, i understand that they don t have anything else. they had nowhere to go. [end of translation] they reached out to their local jewish organization, and they worked with them and the united jewish appeal to help the family and so many other families who have been desperately feeling fleeing ukraine and trying to come to the united states to start a new. life how much money have you
immigrated from ukraine years ago are doing everything they can, including opening their personal holmes and providing financial support. mariupol, ukraine, last christmas. mariupol ukraine, now. since the start of the war, more than 7 million people have been forced to flee ukraine. alexander urasov and his wife olga were just two of them. they were trapped in mariupol with their three children. i m at the u.s. at a park in brooklyn, new york. the daughter was about to celebrate her seventh birthday. it was just months after they left ukraine, and at times, it is still so hard for them to even tell their story. an explosion wave took out our front row door and looters came into whatever they liked. shell fragments remain in my back, and there is a hole in my head. the urasovs escaped, thanks to another family who lived 5000 miles away. he is my childhood friend we. met when we were five or six