reporter: all of these are cots and everything people can carry. there are these little pods of blankets. children laying on some of these cot cots. there are cribs here. 95% of the people in this place in warsaw are women, children and the elderly. they have left safely out of ukraine. emphasis here is that this is a hub. if you look at other parts of this expo center, there are places for you to get paper sorts and get a bus ticket to travel to other parts of europe, to stop, to have place to eat. to eat consistent meals. to get health care. it is something that this expo center which is privately and jointly run by the city but privately owned says it will do as long as it can. how long? i don t know. we should call putin. i don t know. we will be helping them as long
meeting resistance in key cities including the key port in mykalaiv. you are now in nearby odesa. what do you see? reporter: what we saw is a city that, wolf, about a week ago was still very much in the grips of war and even though the russians have been pulled back, you can still hear the rumbles of war, just over the horizon. once more, the people of mykalais can have their daily bread. i see a change, says maxine, now it s getting back to normal.
far towards the border where the president was and where you were covering the president. so i wasn t scared because, as you see i m wearing tactical gear and a helmet, which is protocol here. most of the citizens as you know don t have those in their homes. many people wondering why most citizens don t have black jackets and helmets for this kind of thing. but it was once i got closer, it was i wasn t scared, but it was a bit of a stunning scene because i had grown up around chemical plants similar to this where there were controlled burns and there would be ashes and soot raining down on neighborhoods and we would have to paint our houses every year and our cars because it would rust the cars and mess up the houses. so i know what it can do to the environment. but you never know. this city was a safe haven, and i think that some people may have had a false sense of security about lviv. but now they don t. so at any second people are
135,000 russian men between the ages of 18 and 27 to enlist in the military. a mask con scription and another indicator that the war is not close to ending. neil? neil: thanks, jennifer griffin at the pentagon. meanwhile to poland and ukrainians that are amassing in that country, but they don t want handouts. what they re looking for are jobs. aishah hasnie has been following it up a in warsaw. aishah? hi there, neil. millions of ukrainian refugees left their homes, their husbands, back in the homeland. but they don t want to be victims. they want to fend for themselves. i m going to tell you how the city of warsaw is trying to help them regain some sort of independence. lp her diabetes. but she didn t know what was right for her. no. nope. no way. but then helen went from no to know.
kyiv, around the ukrainian capital, they believe that they now at least have a momentum on their side. they believe that russians are on the back foot. but certainly what we ve seen today, the air raid sirens, the booms that we ve been hearing sh the explosions that we ve been seeing, it certainly seems to us as though the russians are still putting up a massive fight. and might still be trying to also advance. there was a deputy defense minister and she came out and believes that the russians are trying to create corridors around the city which once again could be part of the fact of what you were just saying that they are trying to cut off some of the supply routes that the ukrainians are using to resupply this city and of course their military fighting in it. don. and despite what you said about the ukrainians taking back some of the city but there is still explosions going on. the mayor of kyiv eased the curfew and they re trying to begin remote schooling. what does that feel lik