night from lviv on the far west side of ukraine. you re supposed to be in a safe place, right? close to the border with poland but it seems thefighting has gotten closer to where you are. what are you hearing? reporter: yeah, and look, people have been surprised by what is happening in the capital of course. nobody expected fighting to happen anywhere near the city that i am in. these are police officers making their way through the city. that is probably pretty normal stuff. there has been an airborne assault according to the maisch mayor of lviv about 60 miles to the west of here in a town called brody. according to the mayor, the russian forces landed 60 troops on the ground, they were brought in by helicopters. i m not clear on what the target is. according to the mayor those forces were immediately repelled, russian troops took off running into the nearby woods and are now being pursued by ukrainian forces.
residents toar remain in their shelters because fighting russian forces has broken out in the streets. it has been a rough night for so many ukranians not only in kyiv but across the country. countless residents trying still to get out. with tothat, we want to go to c perry. we spoke at the 2:00 a.m. hour here. just twoe hours later now, tal me through how things are looking there on the ground right now, how residents there are responding especially in a city like lviv which is supposed to be the safe harbor city just 30 miles or so from the border with poland. reporter: that s right. this was the city that people were planning to flee to if the worst happened and the worst seems to be unfolding in the ukranian capital as a city really emerges from 48 hours of what has been, you know, described as hell on the gro
off to school not to pick up a gun and fight. i m taking a look at a man here to see how far brody is, you said 60 miles or so from where you are, but it is so astoundingly lowe close to where you are standing right now. and i m wondering what the security forces are in place in lviv if in fact russian forces do advance. reporter: as of 9:30 a.m. this morning, they have put vehicle checkpoints in and around the city saying that they will search every vehicle. i didn t think of it until just now, but it is quite possible that that attack 60 miles from here prompted those security checkpoints. that would make sense if that took place and then they put in the security check points. i think that there is a growing concern not just of russian forces, we ve been hearing about this threat of insider attacks. earlier today the mayor releasing information that there could be strange symbols on the street. it sounds like paranoia, but the reporting from the other side of the country is that ru
kilometers long full of cars. so i had a chance to speak to some people c at the central trn station in lviv where you have soldiers going toward the front and civilians fleeing the other direction. here is a little bit of that sound from yesterday. we have to live by it because b i m not sure how i can be possible not to fight for this country. we need help. military help and other help. every help possible because if we are not defeating russia, probably you will be the next. reporter: one of the other things that hasep developed her on the ground is a restriction, males who are of a fighting age are no longer allowed to leave the country.ve so we re talking to folks who are dropping their family to thg border and then returning to fight. andto 16,000 assault rifles hand out in the city and you look at
s.w.i.f.t. that russian population has to feel the pain. why? because then they will be our allies in this war. because then they will feel putin they will make putin feeling that, okay, it has went too far, i have to stop because i will be ousted of the country, that he will be defeated in kremlin by his own population. i think that we have to make sure that russian population is our ally in their protests and in order to make that we need to make it really painful sanctions against russia. after the break, we ll check in with cal perry once again who has new information live on the ground in lviv, ukraine. e e ground in lviv, ukraine. so, when leaks show up, our protection helps keep them dry. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you.™