down from this fight by any means. he still is determined to continue to carry out his objective of overthrowing the government, specifically overthrowing zelenskyy. richard, is zelenskyy at all has he indicated he is trying to prepare for a continuity of government, a government in exile, even if he physically doesn t head to lviv, for instance, or maybe outside the country? are there folks in his administration that are preparing to in case kyiv gets overtaken by the russians? reporter: if they are planning that, he didn t discuss it. when asked if he would leave kyiv, he said no, he intends to stay here, whether they are working out alternative plans for a fallback government is hard to know. but i think the ukrainian government does realize it needs
clear that he s not coming back in. he s standing firm. he s not going to leave ukraine. he s not doing to leave kyiv. president zelenskyy is standing up to president putin who is really focused on ukraine. one of the arguments that vladimir putin made and may be believed is that ukraine was a troubled place. it has gone through revolutions. it is uncertain. corruption runs deep in the country. there is no question all of those things are true and vladimir putin seemed to think that would work. that was going to somehow help him take over ukraine, a weak country that nobody would actually come to the defense of. something has happened, though, volodymyr zelenskyy who two weeks ago everybody thought was in over his head dealing with the world s master manipulator, rallied regular ukraiukrainians. we talk to them every hour. people that got a gun and are ready to fight for the country. that was not an expected outcome. that was not an expected outcome by most of the world.
agonizing decision to leave kyiv. she does remain in ukraine. olga, can you tell us about this? you left with your son, and you had to leave your husband. what was that like. actually i ve got two kids. yes, i live in quiche. i m a tour guide in kyiv. after the total bombardment, we made the season to leave my beloved city. i m a tour guide. i show kyiv to the rest of the world. we decided to stay in the central of ukraine and just wait, just to see ourselves in safety. and then when we waited there for a couple more days, we found out that there s no safe place in ukraine, and when we began to
windows. at that point i posted a facebook update to my family. my first instinct was the russians might sever communications, i wanted to get an update out that i am safe and heading to shelter. i already had a bag packed ready to go in case of emergency because obviously the warnings coming from the embassy telling us to leave in the proceeding weeks so i grabbed that and headed down to find some information and shelter. to be honest thursday was quite chaotic. i got the sense that people were stunned, especially in kyiv, no one really understood something like this could happen. the direction was basically to leave kyiv as soon as possible, so on the friday i was in contact with a bunch of expats via telegram chat and i realised i was travelling alone and it would probably be safer to travel in a group of expats, so i reached out and there was another solo traveller who came, who has since become my
stretching for eight miles. wait time to cross the border more than 40 miles now. meanwhile in kyiv the capital city panic is happening. they re doing panic buying of life essentials and stripping grocery store shelves bare. sky barkley is on the ground in ukraine working with christian organization here is hope ministries. sky, thank you for being in focus. tell me what you are trying to do and how hard it is to accomplish that. it s been immensely difficult since we landed on the ground. we came originally to plug in and do medical work, which is what i ve done overseas in the past in iraq and syria. however, in flying here, the next day the invasion happened and we re unable to link up with our driver. he fled with his family. we were unable to secure medical supplies. we only had a small cash. securing money has been