when we watch the news from bucha when we saw the why did this effect you so much when you saw the pictures from bucha? why did this affect you so much? because the people were civilians. especially women and girls and children. so you felt you couldn t stay anymore. i just put myself into their places. and my relatives. it s horrible. thank you so much. and i m so sorry you had to leave home. but one of the things that she told me and that you hear here, so many times, is no one wants
just directly inflicting pain with bullets and bombs on a people. it s also creating conditions of desperation, which poses a whole other set of problems, whether disease or starvation or panic. and these secondary effects from the chaos of putin s war can also be fatal. we had a happy life. everything was perfect and then everything changed very abruptly. reporter: we met ola on her 45th birthday. she and her husband and son had been hiding in their basement in the kharkiv region for a month. the shelling they say was relentless. we were so afraid, especially our kid was so afraid that we couldn t stay anymore. reporter: when the building next door was flattened, she was so scared for her son s life, they got in their car and fled. she had not slept for two days. she was in a horrific car accident.
problems, whether disease or starvation or panic. and these secondary effects from the chaos of putin s war can also be fatal. . we had a happy life. everything was perfect. and then everything changed very abruptly. reporter: we met olah on her 45th birthday. she and husband alex and 10-year-old son had been hiding in kharkiv for a month. the shelling, they say, was relentless. translator: we were so afraid. especially our kid was so afraid that we couldn t stay anymore. reporter: when the building next door was flattened, she was so scared for her son s life, they got in their car and fled. she had not slept for two days. she was in a horrific car accident. translator: when i got in my first hospital, they couldn t help and operate severe broken skull and bones. reporter: you can t see right
poses a whole other set of problems, whether disease or starvation or panic. and these secondary effects from the chaos of putin s war can also be fatal. translator: we had a happy life. everything was perfect and then everything changed very ab abruptly. we met ola on her 45th birthday. she and her husband alex, and 10-year-old son, had been hiding in their basement in the kharkiv region for a month. the shelling, they say, was relentless. translator: we were so afraid, especially our kid was so afraid that we couldn t stay anymore. when the building next door was flattened, she was so scared for her son s life, they got in their car and fled. she had not slept for two days. she was in a horrific car accident. translator: when i got in my first hospital, they couldn t help and operate severe broken skull and bones.
trey: welcome back to sunday night in america, as we continue to cover the war in ukraine, moments ago we learned that okay, youian ukraine president zelensky told u.k. prime minister boris johnson that the next 24 hours will be crucial for his country, to lucas tomlinson live in the city of lviv. reporter: trey, hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have fled. some 20,000 have returned to take up arms against the russians. just i couldn t stay in poland and let russia destroy our cities and kill our children and our elderly. i made the decision to come back to ukraine and fight. reporter: here in the university town. these students would be