torn apart. two ukrainian soldiers in military fatigues getting married, surrounded by their colleagues, armed soldiers. even the mayor of kyiv was there in a bulletproof vest. the first time they had seen each other in a month thanks to training. it's so wonderful that there could still be a moment for love and joy, humanity amidst all of this. thanks for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. good evening from ukraine. russia's ambassador told the u.n. today the security council late today that safety for civilians here is not a problem because, and these are his actual words, quote, we are not bombarding them, end quote. at the same time, his boss, vladimir putin, proposed a new cease-fire starting tomorrow so that civilians can flee the cities that his u.n. ambassador says russia is not bombarding, cities like kharkiv.

it is neither the first burning apartment complex there nor will it be the last. a residential apartment complex. russian forces have been shelling the city for days. the same in mykolaiv. and this isn't the first residential area to be hit either. leveled neighborhoods are not the terrible exception as they are in some wars, they are the rule here. as are attacks on evacuation routes, which are barbaric. and as we've been saying, as brutal as they are, we think you should see them, that you should see what people, innocent people, men and women and children, the elderly, are suffering across this country. we have new footage tonight of the moments leading up to the shelling of a street in irpin which took the lives of a mother and her two children. by now you've likely seen the explosion itself. we now have more from the same

photojournalist of who took the video of what it looked like before the shell landed. he's going to join us shortly to talk about it. the new video shows the urgency of the moment as the ukrainian soldier tries to hurry evacuees through an exposed stretch of road leading out of the area. [ speaking foreign language ]

>> stay there! >> all right . >> again, a mother and her children were killed. that's who those people are calling for medics for. three of them were dead. there was another person who had been helping them who was wounded. they were fleeing the attacks on people just like them. they were fleeing attacks on their neighborhood, a

residential neighborhood, and the evacuation route itself was targeted. it is the defining reality for millions of ukrainians. that's what's so important about that video. yes, it's the loss of those people's lives, but it shows the sickness of this combat, the sickness of a residential area being bombarded for days and then finally civilians slowly trickling out, coming out, thinking that they can seek safety and then they're hit again by a rocket as they're fleeing. late today ukraine's president zelenskyy back in his office for the first time since the war broke out spoke to the reality. >> translator: monday evening, you know, we used to say monday. monday is a hard day. it's war in our country, so every day is a monday. and we are used by now that every day is like that and every day and evening is like that and

today is the 12th night of fight, of defense. and we are all in our places. we are all working. everybody where they should be. i'm in kyiv. my team is with me. and the defense is in their places, our army is in their ranks and doctors, diplomats, politicians, journalists, we are all fighting. we are all contributing to our victory, which will surely happen. now i'm going to say here i am. i'm staying here in bankova, not hiding and i'm not afraid of anyone. >> he also praised the people who are still standing up, confronting russian forces and not backing down, even when the shooting starts. this is from an occupied area here kherson. the crowds are shouting in russian and ukrainian, "go home!"

. >> it doesn't appear on that video that anyone was hurt. it's remarkable even with automatic fire rattling around them, no one seems to have panicked and none of the civilians seem to have backed down or run away, which is certainly a sign of courage. there's also a quieter kind of courage that consists of living as close to a normal life you can in a world unlike any you might have imagined just weeks before in kyiv today. in kyiv today, elena and her children left their shelter briefly to pick up supplies to take care of their cats. and just to take a walk, which took them past her son's

kindergarten. >> he is asking so is it true that putin wants to destroy such a beautiful kindergarten? he has no brains. he says that putin has no brain because if he destroys everything here, what is he going to conquer, to take? nothing, he says. [ speaking foreign language ] tara says if putin keeps bombarding ukraine, what is he going to take? not a beautiful ukraine, but a destroyed ukraine, ruins.

and the kids are right. it won't be possible for him to control ukraine. >> looking at that video, it all looks normal, doesn't it? it's a mom taking her three children, one of them in the stroller, out for a walk in a neighborhood that is so far relatively untouched. and yet, of course, the reality is that she has been living in a basement, not even a bomb shelter, in a basement. it has a window. it's not something that would necessarily protect her if there was a direct blast. living there with her children, separated from her husband, who's no longer doing the job that he regularly did but is out trying to fight. he has a rifle. he doesn't have a helmet or a uniform, just a rifle. doing their best to get by. first our correspondents across the region, cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward is in kyiv, sam kiley is in dnipro and jim

sciutto here in lviv who filed this report. >> reporter: russia is closing in on the ukrainian capital of kyiv. russian tanks on the streets of irpin just west of the capital, with heavy fighting all around the city. this video captures the moment a russian air strike hits kyiv. when the smoke clears, the devastation becomes clear. the air strike killed an entire family. two adults and two children. "the new york times" showed the horrible aftermath on their front page for the world to see. in the south, russia is assaulting the port city of mykolaiv. russia is using cluster bombs, a weapon widely banned due to risk of civilian casualties when used in populated areas. this rocket landed unexploded in the zoo. in the town of mariupol, which russian forces have now

surrounded, citizens lined up for water. their homes cut off from utilities for more than a week. >> we absolutely are sure that p putin and the russian army -- >> reporter: today the u.n. has confirmed more than 406 civilians killed in ukraine since the start of the invasion, while emphasizing that the real figures are considerably higher. still, the u.s. military is pointing to problems russia is having with its advance. >> the russians continue to get frustrated and slowed down and they really haven't made any noteworthy progress in the last few days with the exception of down south. >> reporter: ukrainian leaders are trying to inspire and strengthen their people. the mayor of kyiv posted this video of his visit to a maternity ward. >> life goes on. 82 kids were born just in this hospital since the beginning of

the war. >> reporter: russia says the third round of talks with ukraine did not meet its expectations. as ukraine's president in a new interview with abc news invited the russian president, putin, himself to come to the table. >> what needs to be done is for president putin to start talking, start the dialogue, instead of living in the informational bubble without oxygen. >> reporter: the u.s. and nato allies have accelerated the flow of weapons into ukraine. a senior u.s. official tells me they have sent 17,000 anti-tank missiles, 2,000 anti-aircraft missiles. the u.s. and poland are now considering sending fighter jets from poland to ukraine, according to a white house spokesperson. though the office of poland's prime minister tweeted, quote, poland won't send fighter jets to ukraine. polish officials say publicly they're worried such a transfer could make their country a target for russia. tonight, ukrainian president

zelenskyy addressed these humanitarian corridors or what is supposed to be humanitarian corridors saying instead of the safe passages working, russian tanks worked instead, saying that russian forces are deliberately targeting civilians. we've heard this from other leaders around the country. i spoke to the deputy mayor of mariupol today and on the weekend who said the same. that's the concern here, that civilians want to use these safe passages out, but instead they become targets. anderson. >> jim sciutto, appreciate the reporting. clarissa ward in kyiv. there has obviously been continued bombardment of civilian areas in recent hours. what's the situation that you're seeing now? >> reporter: well, anderson, it's been yet another grim day here in kyiv. some 2,000 people did manage to get out of irpin. irpin is that suburb that we visited over the weekend where

you showed that harrowing footage that "the new york times" was able to capture as a mortar fell, killing an entire family. but today it was a little quieter in that area and some people were able to evacuate. it was a very different story in a village to the west of kyiv. a shell hit a bakery there and according to our estimates, more than a dozen people were killed in that attack. and so the question really becomes, as the bombardment continues and as the civilian toll continues to climb, the u.n. now saying more than 400 civilians have been killed in this conflict in just 11 days, anderson. how can an efficient and truly secure safe passage be facilitated to get people out? now, the russians had proposed a cease-fire beginning tomorrow morning starting at 10:00 a.m. moscow time, that's 9:00 a.m. kyiv time. but the humanitarian corridors that they are proposing in

conjunction with that cease-fire, many of them actually lead out of the country through belarus into russia. as you can understand for most ukrainians that's a nonstarter after being bombed by the russians for more than a week now. they're not very well going to try their luck walking into russian territory. so i don't think many people here sadly have a lot of confidence that this cease-fire will be effectively implemented and that people will actually be able to be evacuated through these corridors. we've seen this before in mariupol, city of half a million in the southeast of the country, 200,000 people were ready to be evacuated, anderson. the shelling started again and the evacuation had to be cancelled. >> clarissa, i just want to follow up with you because it's confusing for people watching at home where locations are. correct me if i'm wrong. the attack we saw in irpin yesterday that we just showed again tonight of that rocket or

mortar hitting where civilians were evacuating, that is the same area, and again correct me if i'm wrong, that you were in the day before in irpin for a long time helping people evacuate, helping a lady carry her bag, helping an elderly man up an embankment and talking about people leaving a civilian area, correct? >> reporter: that's exactly right, anderson. we were there for some hours. there was heavy shelling throughout. it was a little bit in the distance. there were hundreds of people pouring out. this is a suburb of some 60,000 people. most of whom have been hunkered down, pinned down really, with constant bombardment, no food, no power, no heat, for days on end. some of them told us they had been in their basement for seven days. and just as they were really starting to stream out of that area, you saw the following day mortars falling closer and closer until they eventually actually hit those civilians who

were trying to leave. so let's be clear about this. there was no ambiguity about what was going on at irpin. this was clearly an evacuation of civilians from a heavily hit area that then was attacked. >> yeah, that's why i brought that up, because for all russia's talk of not targeting civilians, i mean this -- this video shows -- blatantly shows that to be a lie. they know they're targeting a residential area. and not only are they targeting a residential area, once they bomb that to smithereens, they target the residents as they are trying to leave. it's clear as day in your video and in the resulting video the next day. sam, there's been a lot of fighting to the south of where you are. talk about what you have been seeing and what we know is going on in the south. >> reporter: well, the south has

been seen potentially by the russians as slightly more successful. if they have been bogged down so much in kyiv and kharkiv that they have turned their attention and guns against civilians. in the south the russians enjoyed a little bit more success. they captured kherson, they surrounded mariupol that clarissa was talking about there. they're desperate, the civilian population extremely desperate. now the national security council is warning that the city where i am, dnipro, may come under attack in an effort to cut it apart from the rest of the country. it controls the north, south, east, west, routes, anderson. here's the rub. they are not yet advancing in any significant way beyond their initial captures. they haven't yet launched an attack against odesa, they're not able to capture the

neighboring port. they have been pushed back repeatedly by ukrainian forces there, much to many people's surprise. but all of this is also having an effect on the civilian population because, of course, ordinary people are not going to gamble with the military outcomes of fighting in a town like zaporizhzhia. when we were there large numbers of civilians were leaving zaporizhzhia. many thousands of people trying to get out for two reasons. first is they're worried that they're going to get shelled and secondly they're very close to a nuclear power station that was physically attacked, was shelled by the russian forces, is now in the hands of russian forces, and the international atomic energy authority is saying that they're very deeply concerned that they have lost all but the most

rudimentary communications with the biggest nuclear power station in europe. therefore, the monitoring aspects of it are being undermined in their view. there is the only little bit of good news there is the ukrainian workers are being able to change out shifts in that nuclear power station we understand, which means at least you've not got one exhausted group effectively of engineering hostages running a nuclear power station, anderson. >> some silver lining, i guess. sam kiley, thank you. clarissa ward as well. what appears to be a russian military uncapable of gaining much ground effectively in the north. joining us now retired army four-star general, general wesley clark. general clark, i appreciate you being with us. russia has proposed this so-called cease-fire with so-called humanitarian corridors leading into russia or belarus. does that in any definition of what a humanitarian corridor is

supposed to be like make any sense? >> it's certainly not any corridor that the ukrainians would want to take. but think of this strategically. so the united states and our allies are ratcheting up sanctions. so putin's response to this is, hey, let's put out some humanitarian corridors. let's confuse the west. let's say we're really good people. and by the way, all this discussion gives us more chance to reorganize our logistics, get the offensive moving and so forth. and so there's a lot of sleight of hand going on in this diplomacy. but of course putin does wanting ukraine to surrender. and so he will keep the diplomacy going. he won't just fight, he will continue to besiege zelenskyy. you should surrender. you should let me appoint a prime minister for you. you should let your people leave. he's going to continue to squeeze as he prepares a deeper attack. his problem around kyiv,

anderson, as i look at this is the suburbs are quite extensive. it's very difficult to get your heavy artillery close enough to really do much to kyiv. and those suburbs just soak up forces. the logistics that the russians have are limited. they don't have unlimited supplies of ammunition. they can't get it off that road convoy. so they're on the one hand trying to harass, interject and move forward. on the other hand they're conserving ammunition and they're having trouble getting closure with the ukrainian forces. the ukrainian forces are coming forth at night. they're attacking with rpgs and javelins against them and they're slowing down the russian encirclement. so it's not the campaign that vladimir putin thought he had going. >> the pentagon has announced 500 additional u.s. troops be deployed to nato countries, germany and greece. they were described as enablers.

what does this actually mean? is that more just for show of giving some confidence to those countries? >> it is confidence building. it's also a deterrent. but these countries are looking at what russia is doing. they know russia has an appetite to go further than ukraine, and so they're asking for reinforcement, for a show of support. will the united states really take the risk. they're looking at what nato is doing in ukraine. okay, everybody said they weren't a nato member, we don't have to help them. we don't have to defend them. we're going to help them but we're not going to defend them. so these countries in eastern europe say, okay -- you know, the russians have given us a threat that's a nuclear threat and they did mobilize or raise their alert posture of their nuclear forces. so we haven't thought much about that in the united states, but i can tell you it's casting a heavy shadow in europe. these countries on the one hand

are concerned that they're going to be the next target. on the other hand, they want to fulfill their obligations. they're looking for the united states' leadership that's demonstrated by putting forces in those countries that will be at risk, and the united states will be at war in their support. >> general clark, appreciate it tonight. thank you as always. next, the journalist who captured the explosion in irpin, his account of the evacuation that was under way as the shell landed and what life in kyiv is like in the moment for him and others. later we'll talk to elina, we saw her at the top of the program, talking about trying to hold on to a sliver of normality. her kids, her cats, trying to get diapers. all the things that would normally take up a day in a city under fire. ( ♪ ) ( ♪ )

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leave areas under siege. the last one came apart when russian forces shelled evacuation routes. this one that's now allegedly on the table basically would send people to go to russia or belarus. our next guest brought the horrors of it home for millions of viewers around the world. his name is andre. we played some of his video before the break. here's a portion of it again and it's an incredibly important video to watch because it really demonstrates the depravity of the russian forces. again, some of it is graphic. [ speaking foreign language ] >> shit. shit, shit, shit.

>> andre joins us now. andre, first of all, thank you for sharing that video with the world. it's so important because this is an area where civilians were evacuating from an area that had already been bombarded by the russians. can you just talk about -- walk us through what you saw, what was happening right before then and what you saw? >> we arrive at this place approximately like maybe 20 minutes before. it was started shelling by mortar. and the explosion was far from us but then closer, closer, closer, closer. and this last explosion was near the people who tried to escape this breach here. and i'm like confident artillery 100% saw the explosion like and

saw the people, the breach who tried to escape this region, this location. and there was a lot of children, woman, man, retired people. you can see a lot of people trying to escape. 100% it's war crime. >> our correspondent, clarissa ward, had been at that same site the day before and there were ukrainian forces there. but all the ukrainian forces in her video had their guns slung over their shoulder and were helping elderly people up an embankment, helping people carry suitcases. it seemed like even the soldier in your video who was limping along before the attack, he had been trying to just hurry people along and keep civilians moving. i mean anybody who made that attack clearly knew who the people were that were operating in that area, that it was

civilians. >> the artillery observer, the other side of the river, the high building, yeah, 100% probably see the people trying to escape. and of course russia know a lot of civilian trying to escape this region. the man in the video tried to help people escape this region and carry like bags, cats, dogs, childrens, and it was just local fighters, volunteer fighters from the local town irpin, from this town, trying to help people. after this explosion, he was seriously injured and i don't know alive he now or not. from other side, the family died. it was like mother, 43 year, mikita 18 years, boy and alyssa, 9 years.

one was 28 years, a man. all family. it was from donesk since 2014 and they are living in irpin. for now the father of this family trying to go to kyiv to do funeral because he go to donesk the day before the war started because his mother has had covid and he tried to escape d donesk and he go to the border with russia and said i need to go. they stop him and he just said you can shoot, you can kill me, but i want to go to my dead family. >> yeah. let me ask you just quickly, you've been covering this for years now.

what do you think is -- what is the end -- what happens here? how does this end? i mean even if russia occupies this land, it's not going to end. people are not going to give up. >> of course. people will not give up because freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom and democracy is ukrainian, and to get all ukraine, need to kill half of ukrainian probably. and it's not possible to control this territory even after military operation in ukraine will be successful for putin. he can't -- russia can't win this one, war. >> they can't win. ukraine will win. >> in any way, yes. the question just the cost.

how much people will die, yeah. the question is just cost. >> yeah. andriy dubchak, i appreciate the work that you do and your generosity sharing that video with the world. thank you. >> thank you. keep strong. just ahead, clarissa ward in kyiv returns with the story of residents at the capital central train station desperate to escape the missile attacks hitting civilian areas. you have to see her report, coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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well, it is clear the russian military is bombarding civilians, contrary to the claims the russian ambassador to the u.n. that we noted at the top of the broadcast. a senior u.s. defense official says the bombardments of the major cities here in ukraine are actually increasing and they are indeed hitting civilian targets. fighting was particularly heavy outside of the capital of kyiv as clarissa ward reported earlier. she was at the city central train station today and spoke with those civilians who are desperately trying to get out alive, head further west and get out of the country. >> reporter: at the kyiv central train station today, a crush of people trying to escape, as russian forces hit closer to the capital. many here have just been evacuated from the hardest-hit areas. few know where they are going next. alla and her family made it out of the kyiv suburb of bucha

early this morning, leaving behind her 81-year-old grand grandfather. he didn't want to come with us. he decided to stay, she says. he's old and can't run very fast and we had to leave so quickly. i don't know what's happening there now. it's so scary. this is what remains of the place she calls home. burnt-out husks of russian armored vehicles, entire apartment blocks destroyed. i don't understand how you can shell peaceful people. we never wished harm on anyone. we were friends with russia. we have relatives in russia, she says. they just want to erase ukraine from the face of the earth. it's that fear that is fueling a sense of desperation here. the minute they announced the next train going west, you can see everybody just scrambles to try to get on it.

down below, the platform is packed, but people remain calm. they rush in to help an exhausted elderly woman who has fallen on the track. close to departure time, confusion sets in. another train arrives and people run across the tracks, hoping to catch it. finally, the train to lviv arrives. pushing and shoving as people jostle for space. let the women and children go first, one man shouts. another weeps as he hugs his wife good-bye. sonia, i love you, he calls out. he waits for the train to leave. eyes locked on the window. for what may be his last look. >> clarissa ward joins us now. i mean those scenes, clarissa, what more do people in the train station tell you? did they -- where are they coming from?

>> reporter: everyone has a sort of harrowing story to tell. so many of those people are just shell shocked. they literally have just managed to flee from some of the hardest-hit areas. they're put on these yellow buses, they're taken to the train station, they don't know where they're going. and that woman who we talked to, alla, was from a kyiv suburb called bucha. it's a suburb of about 30,000 people or so. she was skriendescribing harrow scenes of constant bombardment. she said one of her best friends in the town had russian tanks pull up in front of their row of houses on the street and refuse to allow them out and they were then using that as a firing position to try to prevent the ukrainians from returning fire because there were so many civilians trapped in these buildings. that's not the first time we've heard reports like this. ukrainian authorities, and we can't independently confirm this because we can't really get into

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as heavy fighting in the area surrounding the ukrainian capital intensified today, the mayor of kyiv said russian forces are deliberately killing civilians. it is terrifying for those trying to leave we just saw in clarissa's report but also for those choosing to stay, including elena, a mother of three who's been hiding in a shelter in kyiv for nearly two weeks after her husband volunteered to fight to defend the country. now, ukrainian officials warn that russian forces appear to have gone on the offensive in several areas to push toward the capital. now, if you've been watching the program this past week, i've spoken with elena multiple

times. i spoke to her again just before air time today. elena, first of all, how are you doing? how are your kids? >> we are fine, thank you. we are still alive. it's 12 days of resistance. they were only giving us two days i think for kyiv to fall but we still stand. so yeah, we're all right but there are many other people who are not, not okay here in ukraine. >> i think your baby looks bigger than the first time we spoke. is it possible she's grown already? >> she is growing very fast. >> i saw that you went outside with your kids past your son's school. what was that like for them? >> that was a little bit painful to see your life like -- to face your normal life, remember how

it was before and it gives hope and desire to come back to your normal life and it makes being here is more painful. >> do the kids in your area -- i don't know if there is signs of the war, disruption, but have your kids asked about -- have they seen things that look different than they were before the war? have they asked about what's going on? >> well, they know what is going on, but it's true that in our neighborhood there is no destructions yet, but they are afraid. i mean when we go outside, they look at each stone and is it a bump, is it okay to step on this now? they always hold my hand. they are afraid to go out away. and if they see a hole in the ground, we have many holes in

the ground in ukraine, they ask is it because of the bomb explosion or no. and today we've heard again like noise, explosion, and we even saw smoke in the sky because very close to us the russian troops. so they hear what's going on and they know what's going on. >> i knew you were able to go home today to take showers. when we talked a couple of times -- when we talked last week, i know you had been home and your kids -- you thought your kids would want to stay at home and play, but they wanted to leave because they were scared to be there and not be in the basement. how were they this time going home? >> the same. the same. so we just do everything very fast. just throw clothes into the washing machine, take a shower. i wash one by one all three children and give -- today i was able to buy food to our cat

because we have a cat at home who needs us a lot and very fast, less than one hour at home, like 40 minutes at home and then we go back to the basement and in the basement it feels safer. >> how are you able to live? i mean to pay for like that? your husband is fighting. how do you -- day to day, just what -- how different is your life? >> it's completely different. my husband, for example, he was not able to take a shower all these days. so, it's 12 days without a shower for him. and he's sleeping on the floor. and he's -- even though he joined like this defense unit, he's given, like, big gun, but he's not given hazmat or

anything. it sounds cool, but the reality is not romantic at all. for me, yeah, it's not romantic too. each morning, you try -- we brush our teeth. we just wake up on the floor. we have to brush our teeth. we have to wash the floor. we have to go outside for a little bit of breeze. you know, just daily routine. but it's in the basement. and we are getting tired some days, but, i mean, it's something that you can live with this. nothing terrible. at least we have electricity, running water, and everything. but more or less spiritually people are preparing, you know. the situation can become worse because each day we have less and less of products available in the supermarket.

and the queues are long. and the pharmacies, many medications are gone. even diapers -- i seen today i bought the last package of diapers in the pharmacy. but i have, like, a little bit less than for one month. i mean, the situation is, like, okay right now. but it's getting worse. >> have you been able to talk to your husband at all since the last time, when he came and visited? >> yeah, we send messages because as far as i understand, they are told not to talk my phone. so, they cannot talk because otherwise they are, like, phones will be detected on their position. so, they can message, but they cannot call. so, yeah, we write messages to each other. >> there is talk -- there has been talk now for days about

trying to create a humanitarian corridor to help people get out and to help supplies come in. do you -- if there was such a thing, one of the reasons we talked about you not leaving was because of the difficulty of traveling. and of course there's many other reasons, the unknown of living somewhere else and also wanting to stay in your home and show the world that not everybody has left. but if there was a humanitarian corridor, is that something you would consider? >> i would consider for sure. but i don't know what i would choose because i know that the humanitarian corridor was organized, but later russians were just shooting at this corridor. you know? moreover, right now we have the cities and neighborhoods in ukraine that are in very bad position. just ruined houses. and i think that these people

need humanitarian corridors first of all. and, like, where i am right now, the situation is not that bad here. so, i do not much see the reason to leave this neighborhood. kyiv, the only reason might is here, like, if you are very much to stay in the city, then, obviously you can leave somewhere abroad. but, i mean, you see what's going on in the cities that are already occupied by russian troops, how people go on the streets with the ukrainian flag, being even unarmed at all, just to say that russians here are not welcome here. go back home, it's our land. somebody needs to go out with the ukrainian flag. >> olena gnes, i appreciate

talking to you. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> the strength of moms here in ukraine is extraordinary. olena in kyiv is one. we spent the day talking to moms whose sons, daughters, husbands are out fighting. and to see what they are doing and how they are fighting, how the moms are fighting. and there's a lot of different ways, a lot of different front lines in this country. we went to a volunteer center, where moms are packing supplies. that's one mom showing me her husband, who went off to war. we'll take you there and show you the determination moms here have. his future became my focus. lavender baths calmed him. so we made a plan to turn bath timime into a business. ♪ ♪ find a a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com

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to -- to taking a child who have cancer, life threatening cancer, and can't get treatment in kharkiv or in kyiv or in odesa and travel all across the country to try to get their child life saving treatment. and today we saw that same kind of determination and that strength through groups of moms here in lviv who have banded together to do whatever they can to -- to help in the fight against russia. in a volunteer center in lviv, moms whose husbands and children have taken up arms, gathered supplies for those fighting in the east. >> translator: we understand we need to hold strong. we have very strong faith. we believe that we will win, and this will hold us together. >> reporter: she works for a group called angel on your