there has been no attack yet, but suddenly the danger feels close. she spent the night here, she told me it is scary. we don t understand why russia is attacking us. they say they want to protect us, but from what? we didn t need their protection. they called the dean pro a fortress city. it resisted pro russian forces eight years ago when this conflict began but things now are on another level. this city feels a lot more nervous now. there are neighbourhood watch patrols here, and one of the groups of men just came up to us and asked us what we were doing, who we were and why we were here. people in areas like this are now spending their nights in bomb shelters. the fighting hasn t come here yet but people are extremely worried already. they even called the police to check
journey five days ago perhaps did the sensible thing. they got out in time. it s going to be much more difficult now for people to leave, but we are still seeing flows of people, some to other parts of the western edge of the country, other is the right to the border with poland, moldova and hungary and so on to try to get out. it s a mixed picture, but everyone agrees that things here are probably going to get worse before they get better. you are describing that the building is standing on top of vibrated with one missile strike today, clearly the russians are targeting places in the russians are targeting places in the centre of the city, but is there fighting in the centre of the city is well with people on the ground? no, let s be clear, there is no fighting in the centre of the city. what we are getting our skirmishes and classes on the edge, particularly to the northern edge of the city. i suspect we are getting is behind it at, artillery and
find where to stay the night but resigned to sleeping in the car. her elderly mother and husband stayed behind. not only has to get her own children to safety but her friend s daughters too. i don t know when this nightmare will end. i m so tired. reporter: back at the station, the next train won t leave for another four hours, but for the masses of people here, it s worth the wait. scott mclain, cnn, lviv, ukraine. but leaving the country isn t an option for all ukrainians. some can t, some don t want to. the eu estimates 7 million ukrainians could be internally displaced by russia s invasion with the number of refugees fleeing the country potentially much higher than that. major fighting hasn t reached the city of lviv here in western ukraine where i am, but that could change.
in modern day ukraine to keep people safe when the sirens wail again. there has been no attack on dnipro yet, but suddenly the danger feels close. alina and yuri spent last night here. she says it s scary. he tells me he was shaking the first time. translation: we don t understand why russia s are attacking us. they say they want to protect us, but from what? we rejust hiding now. we didn t need their protection. they called dnipro a fortress city. it resisted pro russian forces eight years ago when this conflict began, but things now are on another level. this city feels a lot more nervous now. there are neighbourhood watch patrols here, and one of the groups of men just came up to us and asked us what we were doing, who we were, why we were here. people in areas like this are now spending their nights in bomb shelters. the fighting hasn t come here yet, but people are extremely worried already.
in the city. it’s bring us up to date on the situation in the ci . , ., in the city. it s getting more fearful. there is in the city. it s getting more fearful. there is more - in the city. it s getting more fearful. there is more of. in the city. it s getting more fearful. there is more of a l in the city. it s getting more - fearful. there is more of a sense of dread here because we know that the fighting is getting closer and closer. our position here, we felt the vibrations of one missile attack, it was the strongest sense of shock to the building that we are here in that i have had in the last five days of covering this conflict. the noise of that explosion was really quite intense as well. so there is a real sense that the fighting that s been going on in the outer edges of the northern suburbs in particular of the last three or four days, that s getting closer to the centre of that capital. this comes on the very day that two and half million people here in this city were