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it makes it very difficult to try to move them. reporter: one pittsburgh man telling nbc affiliate wpxi he and a priest rescued 22 orphans from kyiv. the end game would really be get the kids to america. reporter: children still a beautiful symbol of love in an uncertain world. charlotte marina s mom giving me more good news this morning. she texted me saying the little girl got a clean bill of health from a doctor. the family has also been helping get another american family s newborn girl out of ukraine. that girl i m told also healthy, also safe on top of all of those people is a ukraine woman translating for that group. she is with them and safe as well, they tell me. again, that family is lucky compared to what we know could be tens of thousands of ukraine children including orphans who are still trapped in that war zone and an orphanage group saying it may be better to
bracing for the fastest and largest displacement of people there since world war ii. according to unicef, more than 1.3 million ukrainians have fled into neighboring countries, including at least half a million children. some have crossed into hungary, moldova, slovakia, romania. more than half have crossed the border into poland and secretary of state blinken visited a border crossing between ukraine and poland earlier today where waves of refugees are crossing on foot, sometimes with children in tow. nbc s ellison barber is at that border crossing where ukrainians are being met with a hot meal, something they need. to you, ellison. reporter: right here, they are offering traditional polish soup to refugees, people who have fled ukraine and made it across the border into poland. you look around here and you see what is an incredibly organized site. we have been to six different border crossings, welcome centers, in the last week or so.
people have sought refuge in poland, two of that country s largest cities are warning they can no longer absorb ukrainian refugees. nbc s ellison barber is in one of those cities, krakow, poland. so, try to describe the struggle with this refugee crisis there. reporter: yeah, i mean, you know, we hear so much about people opening their doors, offering rooms, places for people to stay, but what city officials are talking about when they say that they are strained is the system. it s that they are concerned they don t have enough doctors, nurses, teachers, other social welfare programs and needs to assist their own population in addition to the thousands of refugees now calling these cities home, almost overnight. one thing that we heard from an ngo we were speaking to is that they want to help but they feel like there is a lack of organization from the top down, from the polish federal government, once people are coming through the border