Ukrainians leave country as fighting breaks out with Russian forces l GMA



Thousands of displaced Ukrainian citizens have escaped to Poland and other parts of Europe since Russian military forces invaded the country.

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  1. I hope this gets better soon, and they'll be able to go back home, in the mean time, thank you poland for being so welcoming.
    #prayforukraine

  2. Poland is a member of NATO and will protect the Ukrainians against Russian aggression while in their country. The Ukrainians will long remember the Polish peoples friendship.

  3. Alot of men are leaving too by this . This is so sad. Prayers for these people

  4. Let's Go Brandon 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

  5. Ukrainian people are very happy now they are free people. Thanks to Russia.

  6. You ask me, if you’re all willing to just flee like that then it doesn’t surprise me what’s happening right now and you deserve to lose your freedoms.

  7. We need more higiene stuff for kids and woman. If any one want to help poland have many check side. We also need medical people who treat ptsd specialy with kids. One off the border patrol friend of mine in Medyk border say that mom with 2 kids one maybe 6 month was wearing just shorts. All of other clothes was use on kids or she gave them to other people.

  8. Respect to the poles for not turning refugees away.

  9. United States keep trying to take everything away from Russia it will put them in the mind set of we have nothing to lose, and this will easier for them to start the nuclear war. Think about it the same way you would when a guy has lost his girlfriend and his children and run at a Police Officer with a knife. I have a special gift because my mind is wired different. I can stop this war, but all rules will have to go. ………….GRIM

  10. This is what happens when you are a pathetic, weak, pu$$y like Joe Biden.

  11. All the top stories are about Ukraine. Not ONE mention about Covid. Hmmmmm.

  12. They don't want to go back to Ukraine. Will Nato countries accept them?

  13. https://youtu.be/sli9Xk2xL_0
    In this video shows how the russian ran over a Ukrainian mans dog right in front of him you can hear the dog cry in pain before it dies. Please share 🙏 RIP to the innocent dog…

  14. Good job Joe Biden on being a p**$$y.

  15. Republicans will gladly admit these people into the US. They are white so Republicans are ok with it.

  16. TRUMP AND HIS ILK ARE TRAITORS…….That Disgusting Big Orange Puffer Fish POS calling Putin a genius and savvy…..give me a phucking break ! He also has the blood of the people of Ukraine on his hands along with Putin and the blood of our service men and women when this escalates to the point of our military personnel being sent to fight.

  17. The U.S. is buying Oil from Russia – so WE are funding Russia's attack on Ukraine – Does this sound like a SMART President we have in office???

  18. Putin's aggressiveness invading Ukraine is exactly why countries want to construct and buildup nuclear missiles, which is the last thing the world needs. Ukraine use to be the third largest nuclear power, they gave up their nuclear missiles in 1994 trusting in an agreement made with U.S., U.K., and Russia. If they hadn't gave up their nuclear arms, Russia wouldn't be attacking them now. The problem with Putin is he's a warmonger, he has an overly competitive personality disorder apparently and likes to force people or countries to take the defensive or offensive. He is like the "Little General" who is willing to do anything to make a point or bully perpetually to get his own way, what a perfect personality type to give power to start a nuclear holocaust. It is so inappropriate to attack your own people and Ukraine is part of Russia's own people. Putin needs to balance his self-interest with the needs of the Ukrainian people and also with the needs of his own immediate people in Russia. His personality type has difficulty knowing when to corporate, compete and compromise. The Ukrainian and Russian people are entitled to their God given Divine Rights of Liberty, Equality, Democracy and Freedoms like all human beings.

  19. Americans get ready to be drafted to be on stand by.
    Now we see what Trump, Putin and Xi
    Had planned all along. Good thing we removed Trump , i couldn't imagine where we will be if Trump was president today.

  20. 😠 This is exactly how ww2 started. Germany invaded Poland because Hitler wanted to liberate ethnic Germans in Poland from "an oppressive system". Putin & Belarus have just used the same exact excuse. 🇺🇦🇺🇦

  21. لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
    THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH AND MUHAMMAD IS THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH

  22. Remember back in the 90s, when Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, in exchange for guarantees by the United States and Europe, that it would defend them against Russian aggression, there’s a joke

  23. These white men never get enough of wars

  24. This war has revealed NATO to be a paper tiger and the leaders of the NATO nations to be cowards. Neville Chamberlain-type cravenness will only lead to further aggression in Europe. They are all unfit to their tasks..

  25. Go Russia !! Take back Ukraine and then retake the rest of the Soviet union.

  26. Biden brilliant plan for peace in Ukraine, he will give away Alaska and "Little Russia" in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn to Putin, Bravo Mr. Biden, that how you calm down the angry bear.

  27. So sad to see people running from war!

  28. I don’t think Putin is the bad guy wish people would stop listening to news. For 5 years we have heard Russia Russia Russia can’t talk about China. So Ukraine has bio lab funded by US 🤔 learned it’s also a child trafficking

  29. This is all staged you people believe anything government television shows you

  30. ПУТИН -бандит и диктатор, он совершенно невминяемая личность как и Гитлер в 1938г. Напасть на Грузию в 2008, потом на Крым, теперь на Украину и Молдавию.Польша и Прибалтика под угрозой тоже. Сумасшедший старик с манией величия. God bless Ukraine!

  31. I’m not the smartest man in the world but I was in the military 93 to 97 and if it was as bad as you are claiming there would be no trains leaving or flights out of the Ukraine stop lying.

  32. why did they wait? They should have got their families to safety weeks ago.

  33. No flights to the U.S. for these people, they are WHITE 🖕

  34. Overnight refugees it breaks my heart

  35. Paul Craig Roberts
    The function of the Western media is to turn fiction into fact and lie into truth. Once the narrative is established, it is repeated endlessly.  I worked hard yesterday to give my readers a true account of the situation.  Today I will update the military situation and point out difficulties that the Kremlin might have overlooked.
    Using high precision missiles, Russia destroyed Ukraine’s military infrastructure. The strikes were limited to military airfields, air defenses, munition and fuel depots, and military communication centers.  There were and are no strikes on civilian populations.  The Kremlin’s operation contrasts starkly with Washington/NATO indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Pakistan.  Hypocritical Western “leaders” shedding crocodile tears for the few casualties in Ukraine never showed even fake concern for the tens of thousands of civilians they slaughtered in their illegal wars based on lies such as “Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.”  Western presstitutes such as CNN have tried to create the impression that Russian forces are attacking civilian populations by showing at a distance smoke plumes rising in a city.  In reality the smoke is from precision hits on military communication or storage locations. The Russian weapons are extremely precise, so the Russians don’t need to bomb everything in sight, leveling every building in order to achieve military purpose.  Russia will get no credit for this humanitarian policy, and might be forced to abandon it, a question I will explore later in this report.
    As far as I can tell, the initial Russian strikes prevented any coordinated military action by the Ukrainian armed forces which doesn’t seem to have been very determined.  Some Ukrainian soldiers laid down their weapons. Others, according to reports, are helping Russian troops guard the nuclear power plants from CIA sabotage.  Many Ukrainian border guards sought refuge in Russia.  The Russian troops are doing their best not to kill Ukrainian soldiers.
    The neo-Nazi militias with their CIA advisers are a different matter.  Both in the territory of the Donbass republics and in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, and, no doubt, in other Ukrainian cities or towns, the neo-Nazis are using civilians as shields by positioning themselves in populated civilian areas. In Kiev, the Nazi militias have set up rocket launchers with which they attack the Russian troops occupying the Kiev airport.  Under the existing Russian orders, the Russian soldiers cannot direct fire into the civilian areas in which the remaining resistance has located itself.  https://sputniknews.com/20220225/moscow-ukrainian-troops-deploy-mrls-grad-in-kiev-to-provoke-casualties-among-civilians-1093369676.html 
    https://sputniknews.com/20220225/russian-mod-kiev-uses-same-methods-as-terrorists-uses-civilians-as-human-shields-1093367914.html 
    Here arises a problem for the Kremlin’s strategy. Russia allowed the nazification of Ukraine to go on for so long that a network is in place for a Washington-supported insurgency.  To destroy the Nazi militias could cost, on the one hand, a lot of Russian lives in street by street fighting, and on the other hand many civilian lives in artillery and bombing barrages like the US and Israel use.
    I wonder if the Kremlin understands that it is up against psychopaths, not soldiers. The Kremlin needs to bring the situation to a quick end, but the Nazi militias can prolong the conflict as long as the Kremlin is committed to minimizing civilian casualties.  Recognizing the difficulty, Putin said the Ukrainian military must not allow their government to use their “children, wives and loved ones as human shields.” He has appealed to the Ukrainian military to “take the power into your own hands.” Putin said that the Ukrainian military would be a better negotiating partner than “a bunch of drug addicts and neo-Nazis” who have “entrenched themselves in Kiev,” and have been holding the people hostage.
    https://www.rt.com/russia/550628-putin-address-ukraine-military-power/
    Russia’s strategic weakness is not her military. Her weakness is her respect for international rules of war and her desire not to harm the Ukrainian population in the interest of good relations once the Nazi elements are removed.  The Kremlin actually cares about what people think.  This is a frustration and a weakness for Russia, because she has no way of controlling the narrative.  Whatever Russia does will be painted black, so she might as well do whatever is necessary to clear out the Nazis before she is faced with a self-imposed stalemate. The Kremlin does not seem to understand that if only Russia abides by international law, there is no international law.  Indeed, the Western countries do not even abide by their own domestic laws.
    The problem did not start with the Russian intervention yesterday.  It began with Washington’s overthrow of a democratically elected government and installation of a puppet regime powerless to prevent the Nazis from developing an independent military force.  The Kremlin should have nipped this in the bud, but naively believing in diplomacy failed to do so.  
    Russia is in trouble because she is forever imposing limits on her use of power.  This works only if your opponents have the same mentality.  Unfortunately, Russia’s opponents do not.
    We see the same Russian unwillingness to act in her response to the latest round of sanctions.  True, the sanctions do seem to be more damaging for Europe and the US than for Russia.  But humiliation remains in a powerful country accepting sanctions from two-bit punk countries that she could destroy completely in two minutes.  
    To stop sanctions and all talk of sanctions, all the Kremlin needs to do is to stop the gas flows to Europe. As the president of one of the large EU energy grid companies said, if this happened German industry would have to be taken off the energy grid.  In other words, a complete shutdown of German industry–the same as if it were bombed into oblivion.  As it is still winter, a lot of Germans would have cold weather inside their homes.
    But what do we see?  We see this:  The head of the Russian Senate, Valentina Matviyenko said that Russia will remain a reliable gas supplier for Europe despite measures taken by the US and Germany against the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. Berlin decided to put an immediate halt to the certification of the project even before Russia launched its operation in Ukraine. The decision was taken following the official recognition by Moscow of the two breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk Republics earlier this week.
    The EU sanctions on Russian banks were altered in order to take advantage of Russian stupidity:  Germany’s finance minister said on Friday that EU sanctions over Russia’s military operation in Ukraine had led to Russian banks being nearly completely blocked in his country. The only transactions still allowed were those by German companies to pay for Russian gas, Christian Lindner said.  https://www.rt.com/business/550619-germany-blocks-russian-banks/ 
    We can say it is not stupidity, that Russia is simply complying with contractual agreements, showing herself to be a good and reliable business partner.  Or we can say that Russia’s incompetent economists and central bank have convinced the Kremlin, whose specialty is not economics, that Russia needs the foreign exchange from gas sales.  But it is stupid. Russia will get no credit for being a reliable business partner. Certainly Germany has no interest in being a reliable partner for Russia as demonstrated by cancelling the Nord 2 pipeline.  As for foreign exchange, Russia has no need of it and it will only be confiscated by sanctions if it is held in instruments denominated in US or EU currency.  The Russian central bank does not need foreign currency to finance Russian economic development.  If Russia is content for Europe to deplete her energy resources, she should bill in rubles in order to strengthen her currency rather than the currency of her enemies.
    So, despite her military predominance, Russia’s position is weak.  It is weakened further by Putin’s commitment to globalism.  Here is an amazing inconsistency in Putin’s position.  Putin is committed to Russia’s sovereignty, but the sovereignty of countries is inconsistent with globalism. Putin can have one or the other but not both.
    I suspect that if the West is able to bring Russia down, it will be because of Russia’s commitment to globalism.

  36. HAHAHAHA! Burn Ukranian Nazis! Buuuurn!

  37. Nato is totally spineless if they can't see the good fight when its right in their face. How in the hell is this going to be viewed in history. Not well i guess

  38. Biden and NATO lied to Ukraine. Biden's promises breaked.!
    LESSON. NEVER trust U.S and NATO.! Biden's Sanctions can't help Ukraine. Biden's Sanctions won't stop Putin.
    Biden is son of b. itch. He is afraid of Putin. Nato is legalized terrorist organization. NATO can't fight against the Russia. Becuz NATO is too weak organization.
    At Last. Ukrainians defending their country alone. Whole world watching how braveful Zelensky. Whole world watching that Biden is son of b.. God bless you Zelensky. Its enough. You need to deal Peace with Putin.

  39. Where was the world when USA invaded Afghanistan,Somalia,Iraq.where was the world when USA government created chaos and maybem all over the world. The biggest aggressor in this world is the USA goverment.