have an answer yeah, i don t have an answer. reporter: the mountain village of volovets is about 7,000 people no one really knows how many people have evacuated here some say several thousand oksana and eugene estimate closer to 12,000 for centuries the carpathian mountains have been a refuge for people fleeing war no army in history has been able to take and hold this mountainous terrain. this is what is at stake in this war, and history is now repeating itself villagers here descend from previous generations of refugees jews fleeing persecution. ukrainians during both world wars it s not our first time we take or have refugees reporter: helena is an english teacher here at the main school she shows us where the school kitchen is cranking out hundreds of meals a day, and the classrooms turned dormitories. they know that we will help them, and they have safe place, and they can even those that have nothing. we are blesse to meet these people they are really nice