resistance. but for me more instantly, and what i hope, i stand with ukrainian, they could make russia pay a huge, huge price. right. yeah, and to that very point, the ukrainians are the defenders. and i know you ve written extensively about many of the advantages of being in that position. what are the main advantages? what would ukrainian forces be doing to prepare or should be doing to prepare? the defense is always the strongest form of war, has always been. in the urban defense, ten times that. they can prepare every street. they can block every street. put guns in every window hidden, and just make it impossible for the russians to come in without fear. the russians fear urban combat. and that s why they re going to bomb it, unfortunately a lot. because all soldiers don t want urban warfare. so inside of kyiv, if i was there, building the barriers, ensuring that they have
strong. reporter: we saw that strength on display by hundreds of mothers traveling alone with their children across the border into poland, their husbands left behind to fight. but not everyone at the medika border krorsing is leaving we have witnessed men going the other way to fight. i m ukrainian going to fight against russian. reporter: but for a million other ukrainians, fleeing is the best option to save themselves and their children. for this family, the husband, though, remains with them, even though ukrainian s government has demanded men of his age must stay put. he has been allowed out. his duty is to his family, he says. he is the only breadwinner because his wife s duty is to the children who struggle with disabilities. at the train station, their youngest smiles and clutches her most prized possessions. her old fuzzy tiger and a new keepsake, a handful of gravel
wow. 30,000 a day. i actually covered the retaking of mosul from isis in iraq. that sort of starkly illustrated how fighting in a city can be incredibly damaging to infrastructure, obviously, and far more likely to result in high civilian casualties. i think in mosul some estimates were 10,000 civilians died. just describe how bad it can get and why. yeah, so i think this will be ten times what the battle of mosul was. just because of the resistance you re fading. in the battle of mosul was 5,000, maybe 10,000 untrained terrorist, and it still took 100,000 forces backed by the most powerful and law of arm conflict abiding air power in the world, and it still took them nine months in destroying most of the city. this could get in the tens of thousands of civilian casualties and destroy every building there if the ukrainians put up the
and pro-russians and ukraine army is 4 30 kilometer long and there are thousands of people stranded there without infrastructure, electricity, shops, administration. and i wanted to give voice to these people. that s why i wrote the gray beast. but i didn t expect this situation. yeah. it is a pleasure to speak with you, andrey, a famed author here in this country. ironically known for comedic work as well. this is not a laughing matter. it s been wonderful to speak with you. andree kurkov. thank you so much. ukrainians aren t giving up without a fight, but neither are the russians. how trip wire and booby traps are making life even more unbearable for ukrainians living in cities under siege. we ll be right back. with the newinvesting
fridge and she moved with her daughter. i think many ukrainians in western ukraine are doing the same. a lot of people arrested in cars. a citizen was taking photos of military objects here in the region. right. what are people thinking about the enemy? powerful and frightening or young, uncommitted and beatable? what do people think about the russians? i mean, the spirit is very high because of the resistance of the ukrainian army. and of course the support of europe and united states also influenced the morale of people. most of the people are optimistic, but very angry, very bitter, especially getting news about bombardment of nuclear station near zaporizhzhia, about the criminals brought from