but when marisha was forced to leave without her husband, she was not alone.d help her navigate a long and difficult journey to safety. cnn's randi kaye has the story. >> i felt like being here is not really helpful. i got to go. i got to be there. >> reporter: and just like that, alexander murga booked a ticket from florida to eastern europe to help get his sister safely out of ukraine and the region. she was living about 90 miles from kyiv when the russian bombs started to fall. how worried were you about her? >> kind of shaken all the time. because you want to be there. you want to support her. you want to hug her. you want to somehow protect her. >> reporter: alexander made a plan to meet her in poland. he left his home outside orlando around the same time she left hers in ukraine. marisha drove 14 hours to a border crossing, and then waited another 14 hours to cross over into poland. her husband stayed to fight, but finally she managed to get to poland's roslov airport, and that's where she reunited with her brother. without alexander's help getting her a

. >> reporter: and while marisha didn't speak much english in our interview. all country who help my country and my people. >> randi kaye, cnn, orlando, florida. >>> tv series featuring volodymyr zelenskyy. before he was a politician, he was an actor. he played a high school teacher who becomes the ukrainian president. a speech he makes about government corruption goes viral. the show first aired in 2015. he became president four years later. >>> it can't be easy for ukrainian children fleeing their homes with their families but one volunteer is trying to give kids a much needed laugh. this israeli greets children with a plush toy and fateful touch. the smile says it all. he wants to take their minds off the crisis. >> for me, the purpose of all is to give them some kind of a break of the seriousness of everything, to bring them a smile and also when i create the first reaction, i can get the mothers to come over and get more food, water, toys, clothes, anything they need. just to give them kind of relief and understanding that they are on the safe side, they