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Special guest. he is a former pro boxer now fighting the russian invasion. the marriage offering a glimmer of hope, a glimmer of good in the midst of war. two soldiers, united by love for each other and by love of country. that s all the time i have for today. i m alicia menendez. i ll see you back here next weekend for more american voices. but for now i hand it over to medhi hasan. thanks, alisa. tonight on the medhi hasan show, my conversation with the commissioner for refugees has more than 1.5 million ukrainians flee their country. plus congressman eric swalwell on what more the u.s. can be doing to help the people of ukraine. then a ukrainian refugee describes her journey to escape kyiv after hiding in a bomb shelter for a week. ....
leila and this is daughter of my sister. what is her name? alisa. they re very cute. how are you doing? well, i ve been better. yeah. i can imagine. i can imagine. they bombing kindergarten of my daughter, not exist anymore. they bombing schools. they bombing hotels. any places, citizen places. my parents, i begged them, i begged them to go with us, but they didn t want to leave. didn t want to leave. i just had to leave because i have to save my life and my child s. a decision that s unconscionable to have to decide to take your children and leave and have parents left behind or somebody who s disabled left behind. i know it must be just hard to even look ahead in a situation like that, but we talked about the people who are able to ....
Alisa s aunt says she suffered from a concussion for days after a strike hit her home. translator: we walked among corpses. there were bodies under the evergreens. soldiers without heads, without arms. they are lying there. nobody is gathering them. there was such fear that i felt like i was underwater. i wanted to wake up. now i am here and this feels like some kind of a dream. reporter: inside the superstore, volunteers and the city government are trying to help. newly arrived evacuees are welcomed at this support center where they re offered warm meals, access to medics and information about how to travel deeper into safer parts of ukrainian territory. there s also a bulletin board here where some people are offering free repair of shattered car windows. and there are also postings here, looking for information about missing loved ones. ....
Her family reaches relative safety in the parking lot of a store. the day before yesterday an artillery shell hit our house, she says. half of the house is gone. this is what was left. translator: if russia sees this, i want them to know that they aren t defending us, they re killing us because they seem to think they re defending us and that s not true. reporter: this parking lot, an unofficial gateway to ukrainian territory to more than 70,000 ukrainians who officials say fled mariupol. the evacuees look shell shocked. they arrive in vehicles draped with white rags and signs that say children, and some, like 4-year-old alisa show up in yellow school buses. they were bombing us, she says. bombing us with planes and tanks. ....
Alisa s aunt said she suffered a concussion for days after a strike her her home. translator: i walked among corpses. there were soldiers without heads, without arms. they are lying there. no one is gathering them. there was such fear that i felt like i was under water. i wanted to wake up. and now i am here and this feels like some kind of dream. reporter: inside the superstore, volunteers and the city government are trying to help. evacuees arrive at this support center where they are offered warm meals and support to travel deeper into ukranian territory. there is also a bulletin board where some people are offering free repair of shattered car windows. and there are also postings here looking for information about missing loved ones. ....