concerned about it and so we and also dasha s family was in mariupol, her 13-year-old sister was there, and we were more concerned about what would happen in that part of the country. we had an opportunity we thought to have her sister come to us so she would be away from anything that might happen there so that and also maybe helping my parents to sleep a little better at night we decided to come and now obviously we re thankful that we did. you feel safer there but it s still, i mean, lviv is, you know, there is trouble there and you re not in complete safety even there, joe. yeah, you know, that s all a guessing game. it depends on, you know, what we read one day i ll be sure that there is no way putin will try to expand the war this far west in the country. other days you re not so sure about that. but we feel that we re safe here for now. we feel we are able to do important work while here so for now we have made the decision to
in this country and who have left this country who are going to be needing a lot of psychological help going forward. michael, general, thank you very much. so they fled kyiv just days before the russian invasion but they didn t flee the country. american joe rhymers and his ukrainian wife dascha went west to lviv where they re now helping refugees find places to stay and they both join me now. hello to both of you. i am so glad to see you both. joe, we ll be speaking since i understand dascha is concerned about her english but, please, if you have something to say, dascha, feel free to jump right in. this is your platform and your time to say whatever you want. so again, we are grateful you re joining us. joe, you just got married in june. thank you. after living in ukraine for four years now. did you ever imagine something like this would happen? no, and i guess that is one of the many privileges of being an american, right, is big
problems like this are always things that happen in other countries. and then i moved to one of those countries and now we re here. but in all the reading we did about the first year of marriage this wasn t something we were prepared for. yeah. so let s try this. and just see. how are you doing? yeah. depends. sometimes sad sometimes angry. we are trying to do something just to, for not to think about my family all the time. but yeah. we re doing okay here. i imagine it s tough. your life has been up ended in the last two weeks. joe, how did you have the foresight to get out of kyiv? what happened? i think, you know, honestly we can t even really say it was our foresight. we felt like we had the opportunity to go and the reports were getting more concerning, and my parents in america i think were very
family, your country? i was thinking about it. you know, it s interesting because you never want to be this person people are watching on tv and feel pity for, right? and we are the same people. we had normal life here. we were happy. and we just want this to come back. we just want this back. so i don t know if you can help us somehow we ll be grateful. dasha, joe, thank you so much. we appreciate it. you guys be safe. okay? thank you for having us on. thank you very much. up next, ukraine s youngest member of parliament. what he is saying in kyiv tonight. ck at your pace. store yourur things until you re ready. then we dedeliver to your new home - across town or across the country.