home. there s other people trying to get to portugal for family. every single one of those 2.5 million people is just it s its own story. incredibly complicated. as the russians move further west and continue to attack civilian areas, it s just going to get worse. wolf? yeah. certainly right. miguel marquez, we re grateful for your reporting. thank you very, very much. still to come, the u.s. committing more money to support ukraine s military. just how much the white house is sending to the front lines. stand by. plus, nato allies will once again meet in brussels in the coming days. the big question hanging over that meeting will the nato alliance consider, simply consider a no-fly zone as ukrainians like kyra rudic, the mw we spoke to, say they desperately are pleading for it, that they desperately need. that s next. stay with us. you re in the situation room. . certified from headlamp to tailpipe.
crossing to someone that they know, friends, relatives, other people in europe. if they don t have that level of support, then they are looking to house them either in somewhere in bucharest where there are refugee centers all over, or the people that we ve met that are opening their homes, people opening up hotels, people across the country, across europe are making room for so many refugees, and there will be many, many more. what you realize, though, is how complicated it is. it s really simple to think of getting a person from point a to point b, but when you re talking about thousands of people who don t have documents, who don t have visas, who don t have passports, who don t have money, who don t have train tickets, all this sort of stuff that goes with it sometimes they have pets that s complicating, as well. you know, we visited one home, there were 31 people staying there. one woman had cancer, she had to was supposed to get a surgery in ukraine, now she s getting it in
economic consequences. he s told his oligarchs who are getting sanctioned, yachts seized, he told them to suck it up, be patriotic. it s other russians who wanted a future integrated into europe that he s steadily stifled over the years. that s one part that made me angry about the situation, and the absolute wanton way that he has gone to war on a false pretext and continues to push that pretext and absolutely stomps on any voice of dissent. that s what when you re there watching it happen, that s what gets you. because you were there back in 1990 as the cold war was ending, the collapse of the soviet union. i was there december, 1991 when the soviet union ended. all of us were upbeat that things were moving in a brand-new direction. we had that sense, and it rightfully so. i remember we set up cnn, we set up a big live operation in the middle of red square, that fabled military parade ground
outside the kremlin. the russians gave us the soviet union gave us the opportunity to do that. we broadcast live for several days. at that time you had the sense that this was a country that wanted to integrate to the west. fast forward a decade, putin comes to power. all those changes, all that alignment toward a european-style democracy and integrating the rest of the world, he said that was wrong. and he s reversed it, tried to reverse the position ever since with different invasions and now in ukraine, and that i think, you know, tells you because of his complete power there, it tells you that russia is at the moment putin, and it s putin that is trying to drag his country back to some imagined former glory. and that at the moment is to the detriment of the vast majority of russians. and certainly to the detriment of millions of people in ukraine right now. i originally thought, well, putin, maybe he ll do something along the border like he did with crimea.
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